Fill in each gap with one of the words given to form a compound adjective.
air; far; near; soft; time; cold; blue; easy; hard; shock; world; ready; absent; whole; short
1. .....-sighted people must wear glasses when they drive a car.
2. We can find a great number of ....-made clothes in this supermarket.
3. My mother doesn't mind who comes to stay, she's very ....-going.
4. My father usually has a ....-boiled egg and bread for breakfast.
5. ....-collar workers are those who work in industries, doing physical work.
6. Are all the rooms in this hotel ....-conditioned?
7. This is a ....-proof watch because it is designed to resist damage when knocked or dropped.
8. Everyone should make ......-hearted effort to fight against air pollution.
9. Hundreds of thousands of people were unemployed during the .....-wide economic depression.
10. My grandfather often forgets almost everything I tell him, he is so ....-minded.
11. Some of the more ....-consuming jobs can now be done by machines.
12. Daisy passed every exam she took because she was a very ....-working student.
13.....-blooded animals have a blood temperature which varies with the temperature of the surroundings.
14. The restaurant in front of my house is .....-handed, so they are all having to work much harder.
15. Many ....-reaching proposals were brought in at the Sustainable Development Summit organized by the United Nations in September 2002.
61/ ____ unemployed, Jessica is having a hard time making ends meet.
a To be
b Being
c Is
d Be
62/ Workers are expected to wear newly ____ protective clothing.
a purchase
b purchasing
c purchased
d purchases
63/ After hearing about the increase in the minimum wage, Brown, Inc. laid off 30 ____ of its entire workforce.
a percent
b pers
c percents
d per