very/extremely.absolutely
1. When we arrived in Rome, the weather was _______ awful.
2. Many of the monuments of Rome are _______ well known.
absolutely
very / extremely
1. a lot of snow fell yesterday in Vienna.
HARD
It __________ in Vienna yesterday.
snowed hard
Venice is built on a lagoon and is therefore highly vulnerable ____ changing sea levels. High tides often flood the city, threatening its buildings and rich cultural heritage.
DOUBLE POINTS
to
3. That porcelain vase you bought looks _______ fragile.
4. Verdi played a(n) __________ decisive role in the development of opera.
3. very/extremely
4. very/extremely
2. There has been a steady increase in prices over the last year.
STEADILY
Price _________ over the last year.
DOUBLE POINTS
have increased steadily
Instruments were first used to measure sea levels in 1872 and scientists have _______ looking for ways to find _________ what happened before then, as this could help them predict what might happen in the future.
DOUBLE POINTS
been
out
5. When my father heard the bad news, he was _______ furious.
6. The service at our hotel was ______ impressive.
absolutely
very/extremely
My home town is a fairly big industrial city.
QUITE
My home town is ________ industrial city.
quite a big
Then somebody realised that the 18th-century artist Canaletto, unlike most modern painters, painted exactly ________ he saw, so his famous pictures of Venice are almost _________ accurate as photographs. If you look at them closely, you can see a brown-green line on the buildings.
what
as
7. I found the Colosseum in Rome _________ unique.
8. Anna's two-year-old daughter is _______ lively.
7. absolutely
8. very / extremely
Prague is rather expensive. BIT
Prague is __________ expensive city.
I have almost no money left after my holiday.
HARDLY - I have _________ money left after my holiday
a bit of an
hardly any
(You can see the green marks on buildings) _______ marks the average high-tide level at the time. The scientists can therefore see that the sea level in Venice ______ risen by about 2.7 millimetres per year ________ Cataletto's day.
which/that
has
since
9. With no money and no job, my prospects seemed __________ bleak.
10. Volunteers are making _________ tremendous efforts to rescue artworks threatened by the floods.
9. very/extremely
10. absolutely
The number of tourists I saw was really amazing. ABSOLUTELY
I ________ the number of tourists I saw.
Can I fly to Bratislava without having to change planes? DIRECT
Is there _________ to Bratislava?
I was absolutely amazed by the number of tourists I saw.
Is there a direct flight to Bratislava?
More ________ 230 years after his death, therefore the artist's paintings provide a record of sea levels for a period long before modern measurements began.
What adverbs can we use with gradable adjectives?
than
very extremely