Vocabulary Practice 2

Ex.4. Suggest Russian equivalents for these word combinations from the text, reproduce the context in which they are used in the text.

1. the dearth of young women

2. sexual discrepancy // disparities

3. unintended consequence

4. the surplus of bachelors

5. male / female ratio // sex ratio

6. a distorted ratio

7. to follow suit

8. a discernible son preference // to show a discernible preference for sons over daughters

9. prenatal sex - determination technology

10. declining // falling fertility

11. gender imbalance

12. a hitherto homogeneous society

13. backward thinking

14. spell trouble

15. the authorities’ baleful eye

Ex.5. Continue the following strings of collocations with the words in bold. Use some of the word combinations in sentences of your own.

1. sexual, ___________, ___________, ___________ discrepancy

2. distorted ratio, __________, __________, ___________

3. a discernible preference, __________, __________, __________

4. homogeneous society, ___________, ___________, ______________

5. spell trouble, __________, __________, __________, _______________

Ex.6. Fill in the gaps using the words and expressions from Ex.4 and Ex.5.

1. The new recruitment policies _________ _________ as men lacking even an elementary education were entering an organization whose greatest demand was for personnel with high technical qualifications.

2. In less developed nations the gender _________ in life expectancy is smaller than in the developed nations, and it has increased in favor of women in the last 35.

3. Whether a country of integration or of a melting pot, America thrives and has always thrived due to the __________ of immigrants finding refuge in America.

4. An __________ __________ comes about when a mechanism that has been installed in the world with the intention of producing one result is used to produce a different (and often conflicting) result.

5. The human _________ __________ is the number of males for each female in a population.

6. Ukraine's accession to the World Trade Organization will encourage Belarus to _________ __________.

7. Simplest conclusion is that the __________ of women scientists is caused largely by bias and social factors.

8. Make sure that you are actually comfortable with the instructor as there is nothing worse than operating under the __________ __________ of a teacher you simply detest.

9. Mr. Camby has no ___________ ___________ between alligator and crocodile but says his favorite reptile ''is a dead one.''

10. _________ __________ leads to backward behaviour, backward behaviour leads to backward society, backward society leads to exploitation and corruption.

11. If parents are given the opportunity to choose the sex of their child and if children of one sex are preferred this will result in a __________ sex ratio among children and adults.

12. The Indian Parliament had to pass a law regulating medical use of __________ technology and made it illegal to advertise such services.

13. The grave consequences of _________ have escaped public attention because of the great concern during the past decades about overpopulation.

14. Seriously though, there is a _________ __________ in Russia, due to the shortage of Russian men Russian women have no option but to marry foreigners.

15. A ___________ society is such a society where most of the people share the same type of cultural values, language, ethnicity and religious system.

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