| Text 1
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| With ________________ aid now pouring into the country
| HUMAN
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| charitable agencies are still struggling to cope in a country
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| where day to day life is a struggle for _________________.
| EXIST
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| In some areas agency workers have encountered __________
| RESIST
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| to their efforts from government forces. Meanwhile, in an
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| attempt to _________________ the economy, the Government
| STABLE
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| has ______________ the currency for the third time this year.
| VALUE
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| Text 2.
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| The United Nations has not ruled out the possibility of military
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| _________________, although it is still hopeful of achieving a
| INTERVENE
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| settlement by ____________ means. The Secretary General
| DIPLOMACY
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| Roundly condemned the President’s policy of ethnic
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| ___________________, and also criticized him for spending a
| CLEAN
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| ______________ amount of his country’s money on weapons.
| PROPORTION
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| This follows last week’s ‘reminder’ to the President that
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| ____________________ is now universally illegal, a fact he
| SLAVE
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| continues to ignore.
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Suggest the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions. In case you do not know the meaning, work it out from listening to your partner.
| An orphanage capacity
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| Barren land
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| Child morbidity
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| Deforestation
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| Desertification
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| Devastating conflict
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| Encroachment
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| Expanses
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| Female infanticide
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| Income-generating
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| Indentured servitude
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| Parental neglect
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| Political upheaval
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| Slums
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| Subsistence
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| To assign to
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| To be susceptible to
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| To eke out
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| To exacerbate
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| To hoard
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| To impair
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| To incur
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| To perpetuate
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| To plague
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| To ravage
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| To use up resources
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