Word formation, Part 5

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. ___ business transformation is crucial for companies to stay ahead of emerging players and maintain a competitive edge.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. Shipping throughout the Arctic will also become ___ important.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum who was a chef at a restaurant in New York. Fried potatoes were popular at the restaurant because they were rather ___, but one day a visitor complained that the slices were too thick.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. His business activities included a ___ of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, which was later part of Lonrho of which he became chairman.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. Ray Douglas Bradbury is a US writer of fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery. He is ___ considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest and most popular writers of science fiction.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. I hadn't defined ___ activities that would replace the initial workload.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. Many encyclopedias say that the first computer was developed by Howard H. Aiken (and his team) in America between 1939 and 1944. It was a large-scale, programme-controlled machine which could make a very complex ___.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. In autumn you can see large flocks of birds flying from Russia to warmer countries. In spring, they come back to us. Migration is the periodic seasonal ___ of birds.

Choose the correct option. The birds have been successfully reared in ___.

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. Castle Clinton was built in the times of Napoleonic wars and great tension between Britain and the US. New York was almost ___ and in a short time five new forts, Castle Clinton among them, were built.