Skills 2

Match each word below with its correct definition.

• ​talent || an ability that you are born with
• ​qualification || an official record of your training course
• skill || an ability that you learn

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________ design buildings that are functional, safe, and beautiful.​

1. Architects
2. Accountants
3. Nutritionists
4. School teachers

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_______ help to advance an understanding of how diet affects the health and well-being of people and animals.​

1. Multimedia
2. Nutritionists
3. Programmers
4. Veterinarians

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I have a big exam tomorrow so I'll be _______ the midnight oil tonight.

1. burnt
2. burn
3. burning
4. having burnt

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He _______ a bundle on the stock market and reinvested half the profits in more stocks.​

1. have done
2. have made
3. made
4. did

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A(n) _______ person is someone who can share another person's feelings.​

1. sympathetized
2. sympathetic
3. unsympathetic
4. sympathy

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Can he _______ as a freelance photographer?​

1. make his life
2. make a live
3. make a living
4. earn a life

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Whenever those two peers meet, they stop _______ for a while.

1. talking
2. to talk
3. talk
4. to talking

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I was very angry. My friend John refused ________ me a lift as he had promised.​

1. giving
2. to give
3. to giving
4. having given

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John hoped to finish _______ two of his essays before the deadline.​

1. to write
2. writing
3. written
4. having written