Italy Population – B1 – Vocabulary Questions 1 / 20 What does ‘policies’ mean? personal ideas family traditions news stories official plans or rules 2 / 20 What does ‘accept’ mean? change quickly fight against agree to live with something ignore completely 3 / 20 What does ‘attempts’ mean? plans that worked tries decisions successes 4 / 20 What does ‘trend’ mean in this text? a personal opinion a single event a general direction of change a sudden accident 5 / 20 What does ‘support’ mean in ‘support the pension system’? criticise it help keep it working replace it end it 6 / 20 What does ‘immigrants’ mean? tourists people who come to live in a country people on holiday students only 7 / 20 What does ‘encourage’ mean? try to persuade stop completely force by law ignore 8 / 20 What does ‘issue’ mean in ‘big issue for the government’? a small detail a solution a celebration an important problem 9 / 20 What does ‘moving abroad’ mean? working online going on holiday going to live in another country moving to a city 10 / 20 What does ‘struggling’ mean? being relaxed being rich being very successful having difficulties 11 / 20 What does ‘afford’ mean? refuse to buy waste money have enough money for borrow money 12 / 20 What does ‘average pay’ mean? money saved the highest salary the usual amount of money people earn government support 13 / 20 What does ‘birth rate’ mean? how old parents are how much babies cost how many babies are born where babies are born 14 / 20 What does ‘fewer’ mean in ‘fewer students’? a larger number a smaller number an exact number the same number 15 / 20 What does ‘closing’ mean when talking about schools? changing location hiring teachers improving buildings stopping operations permanently 16 / 20 What does ‘births’ refer to? new schools weddings babies being born new jobs 17 / 20 What does ‘phenomenon’ mean in ‘umarell phenomenon’? a law a personal problem something that happens and is noticed a building 18 / 20 What does ‘annually’ mean? every year every month every day every ten years 19 / 20 What does ‘population’ mean? the government the number of people in a country the size of the land the economy 20 / 20 What does ‘elderly’ mean in the text? young adults old people teenagers children Your score is