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Tham khảo tài liệu 'determini prounoun 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | VOCABULARY SECTION 6 Lack shortage and excess Read these two texts. The haves In Santa Maxima people were well-to-do well-off and well-heeled. They ate and drank to their hearts content and often to excess. They had plenty of delicacies to eat and ample fine wine to drink. There was an abundance of natural resources in the country and manifold crops were plentiful. Most people wanted for nothing they had mountains of food stacks of money heaps of stocks and shares and piles and piles of bonds and other assets. The have nots In San Minima there was abject poverty. There were insufficient crops and an acute shortage of drinking water. Inadequate sanitation meant that standards of hygiene fell well below an acceptable norm. Rice was scarce and many were suffering from severe vitamin deficiency. What food they got was lacking in protein and low in nutritional value. We can use a wide range of vocabulary to express lack need sufficiency and excess verbs and verbal phrases to need to require to be in need of could do with could do without to lack to stuff yourself to overdo it to be crying out for to satisfy a need adjective noun collocations in desperate need of a plentiful supply in abject poverty an acute shortage untold wealth luxury dire need untapped resources easy money conspicuous consumption adverb adjective collocations severely lacking in desperately short of barely adequate fabulously wealthy desperately poor filthy rich adverb verb collocations badly need urgently require obviously lack want something desperately idiomatic phrases well-heeled down-at-heel down and out on the bread-line more than enough to run short of be strapped for cash to stuff yourself silly Practice Q The stories of Santa Maxima and San Minimo continue below. Fill each of the numbered blanks with one of the words given. 1 wine hard-up untold full butter need overweight fleets brimming surfeit fraction surplus excessive unimaginable overdid In Santa Maxima no one knew what it meant to be