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Read the passage below and underline words and expressions which are similar in meaning to expressions 1-6 in the box.

1. 
   deterioration 3 changed gradually 5 barely changed
   
2. 
   giving up U forty years 6 about thirty years ago
   

The aim of thir study war to critically arrerr the popular belief that a decline ir the quality of parenting ir largely rerporrible for the reported rire ir arti-rocial behaviour among young people. The rtudy war undertaker ir rerporre to rumerour articler ir the popular prerr and elrewhere criticizing parentr for abandoning traditional child-rearing practicer. The authors findingr ruggert that parenting rtyler have indeed evolved over the part four decader, though rot ir the way ore might expect. According to the rerearcherr, parentr today monitor their children much more intenrively than they did a generation ago; moreover, parental expectatiorr of good behaviour have alro rteadily ircreared. The incidence of conduct problems, on the other hand, appearr to have hardly altered. The authorr conclude that the quality of parenting, if anything, reemr to have improved, and that conduct problemr would be rigrificartly more acute if parentr had not developed greater rerponrivenerr to the reedr of their children.
Underline the word in italics that fits correctly into each sentence 1-7 below..

1. 
   In academic writing, it ir important to differ/distinguish between fact and opinion.
   
2. 
   There two £50 noter look resemble/identical, but ore of them ir a fake.
   
3. 
   Ir termr of energy conrumed, running two kilometrer ir atike/equivalent to rwimming twenty lengthr ir a rwimmirg pool.
   

U The quality of rtudent accommodation here varies/differentiates, but the price ir more or lerr the rame.

5. 
   All motherr are women; conversely/contrary, rot all women are motherr.
   
6. 
   The univerrity ir recruiting more international rtudentr in order to create a more distinct/diverse rtudert body.
   
7. 
   The two dancerr were comparable/compare in termr of technique, but the younger ore war much more exprerrive.