As real estate prices have. ................dramatically in recent years, buyer have cancelled new- home contracts.

She was playing games while he ________ a football match.

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An aching back or limbs at the end of a working day should not simply be accepted as an occupational _________.

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More and more investors are pouring _______ money into food and beverage start-ups

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This price reduction is due to high ________ among suppliers

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A family is made up ____ people who care about one another

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All the cereal grains ______ grow on the prairies and plains of the United States

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A wedding is a meaningful event.

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What separates a City of the Future ____ other cities is that it goes beyond just providing basic police, fire, and emergency medical services

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One of the leading schools of psychological thought in the 20th century was behaviorism, ____?

People are aware of the importance of ------physical activities which have a significant impact on reducing childhood obesity and chronic disease.

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serious epidemic of COVID-19 has broken ______

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The jury _____________ her compliments on her excellent knowledge of the subject

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That Zara dress I bought last year is really a ____ elephant.

It was_______silent inside the old, abandoned house.

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Online learning gives you full flexibility to accomplish your goals ____ you can access and learn anything you want, anytime you want

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I still keep wondering if I was doing ______ right thing when I asked my father for __________ permission to leave school

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 15 to 19
About 50 or so kinds modern plastic are made from oil, gas, or coal-non-renewable natural resources.  We (15)___ well over three million tons of the stuff in Japan each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away .A high proportion of our animal consumption is in the (16)____ of packaging and this constitutes about seven percent by weight, of our domestic(17) ____ . Almost all of it can be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling industry is growing fast. The plastics themselves are extremely energy - rich – they have a higher calorific(18) ____ than coal and one methodn of “recovery” strongly (19)____ by plastic manufacturers if the conversion of waste plastic into a fuel
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UNESCO __________ the United Nations educational scientific and cultural organization

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She always wishes to be chosen for the national ballet team, just alike her mother.

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I suppose I can get on well with him, ________?