Exercise 14. Try to enrich your vocabulary:
a) find words in the text which have the same meanings as the following
words:
to contain, to believe, the means, to study, to get, a kind, to talk, data,
various, to be responsible for, a diploma, to want, to continue;
b) find words in the text whose meanings are opposite to the meanings of the
following words:
informal, narrow, bad, different, the beginning, old, to give up, small, before;
c) replace the words in italics with the words with similar and opposite meanings:
1. This road is rather broad. 2. They study different subjects. 3. They want
to continue their education. 4. The children are eating with good manners.
5. They were reading the text at the beginning of the lesson.