Wordbuilding (adjectives and adverbs)
материал для подготовки к егэ (гиа) по английскому языку (9 класс)

                                                            Adverbs /adjectives   (word formation)

1. There have been many changes in the people’s lives over the last 50 years. Some things have become ______________THIN while we ourselves have grown 1)______________TALL and BIG. For overweight people running has become 2) ______________________COMPLICATE although talking on a mobile phone is certainly 3)  ______________BIND as we can talk and go. Smart phones are not used by a lot 4) ________________LITTLE rich people. Everybody look less old and quite a few live 5) _____________GOOD over one hundred years. Dating at a younger age has become 6) _________________POPULAR but getting married at a younger age is definitely less common. Extra calories in food have become the 7) ______________BAD enemy doing the greatest harm to people’s health. Information is now at our fingerprints and some call it the 8) ______________GOOD opportunity of all while others insist that this is the 9) ______________MANY  evil. Social networks have brought Internet users together but at the same time the situation is not 10) _____________NEAR as good as it may seem and the number of lonely people has actually grown 11) ___________QUICK than expected.
2. Ice cream in Greenland.

Greenland, though 1) ________________STUN beautiful, is one of the few places in the world with 2) _____________________HARSH climate imaginable. Not only is it 3) ________________COLD inhabitable island in the world, but it is also 4) ________________BIG. Life on the island is full of paradoxes. Surprisingly, 5) ______________COOL  business there is producing and selling ice cream. Some would expect that the business of making ice cream would develop 6) _____________SLOW  here compared to the countries with a hot climate. It comes as a shock to know that it does not. Some special sorts of local ice cream do not contain milk or cream. It is made of 7)  ____________PURE ice around found there compared to other places. Some dig the snow 8) ____________DEEP enough and do not find any ice. Others dig 9) ___________DEEP  but the ice there doesn’t meet the standards of quality and is not ______________GOOD. You have to dig the snow 10) ___________DEEP down to the ice you need. Of course, this work is 11) _____________HARD than making traditional milk-containing ice cream. However, 12) __________________OFTEN than not it is the sort that is preferred by tourists especially when the temperature is 13) ______________LOW than minus 20.