Microsoft Word ielts writing Task 2 Actual Tests 2015 2016 2017 & Sample Answers docx

Useful words/ phrases: 
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Overconsumption
is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable 
capacity of the ecosystem.
 

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Example: 
A prolonged pattern of overconsumption leads to inevitable environmental 
degradation and the eventual loss of resource bases 
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Scarcity
: if there is a scarcity of something, there is not enough of it and it is difficult 
to obtain it.
 
Example: 
a time of scarcity / a scarcity of resources 
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On the verge of
: very near to the moment when somebody does something or 
something happens.
 
Example:
These measures brought the republic to the verge of economic collapse. 
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Stagnation
: the fact of no longer developing or making progress.