Build up Your Vocabulary for IELTS-Key Word:System

Key Word:System

Verb+System

1. Use the correct form of these verbs:

1. The government have proposed a whole raft of measures to______the health service.
2. Can you explain how the security system______? => Ask Jack. He knows the system inside out.
3. When we______the new booking system, no one believed it would work.
4. We need to______some sort of system whereby staff can meet regularly with each other.
5. The country’s legal system is______the British system.
6. The recently-installed computerised system keeps crashing and the telephone system has also______. We can’t talk to anybody!

Common Adjective Collocations

2. Use the adjectives to complete the sentences:

1. Germany has an______rail system, making it easy to travel around the country. It is the envy of many other countries.
2. The whole system is______every official you deal with demands money before helping you.
3. We’ve called in consultants to identify what is wrong with our______management system.
4. The new system is quite______, I’m afraid. It takes quite a bit of getting used to.
5. Why does it take three men to do the job that one could do? What a hopelessly______system!
6. We still operate an______filing system with paper files and filing cabinets. What we need is a modern, state-of-the-art computer system.
7. Something must be done to help poorer children get to university. Our system is very______.
8. The museum is protected by a very______system of burglar and fire alarms. It contains priceless treasures from Ancient Greece.

Go back and underline all the other useful collocations in this exercise.

Noun+Preposition+System

3. Complete the sentences with the following:

1. The government report on salaries exposes the______of the current system of wages – with women still being paid less than men for the same job.
2. She was at great pains to stress the______of the new system over the old one.
3. There are calls for a radical______of the tax system. =>Yes. Changes to the system are long overdue.
4. You need a password to gain______to the computer system.

Answer Key

Ex 1:

1. reform
2. works
3. introduced
4. devise
5. modelled on
6. broken down

Ex 2:

1. excellent
2. corrupt
3. current
4. complicated
5. inefficient
6. outdated
7. unfair
8. sophisticated

Ex 3:

1. injustices
2. advantages
3. overhaul
4. access

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