English Vocabulary Exercises - The World of Money & Work - Exercise 3-2

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Doing volunteer work offers you the _______________ to get valuable work experience.
2. Most of the maple syrup _______________ in Canada comes from the province of Quebec.
3. Yumiko said that in many Japanese companies, workers get a _______________ worth up to three or four months salary at the end of the year.
4. We had to get a _______________ to buy our car, but we should be able to pay it off within a couple of years.
5. In the early 1900s, the use of trains revolutionized _______________ methods for modern armies.
6. How much is the _______________ for a car for one week, not including insurance and mileage?
7. Do you know what the current _______________ rate is for American dollars?
8. There is a handicraft _______________ downtown every Saturday morning.
9. Mary went to the travel _______________ this morning to pick up her plane ticket.
10. My parents are planning to travel across Canada in their motorhome next year after my dad _______________.
11. American businessman Andrew Carnegie _______________ about $330 million to libraries, research projects, and world peace endeavours.
12. He is a _______________ member of the team; without him, we probably would have lost the game.
13. Studies show that the average housewife walks 15 kilometres a day around the house doing her _______________.
14. The Canadian Navy's Pacific _______________ is stationed in Esquimalt on Vancouver Island.
15. Jasper bought a few _______________ so he could do minor repairs on his bicycle.
16. Tristan _______________ his entire paycheque at the casino, and lost it all.
17. This new _______________ we've been using in our advertising campaign has resulted in an increase in sales of almost ten percent.