Be prepared! No matter how good the childcare may be, some children are going to protest wildly if they are left. This is a  _____ normal stage of child development.

According to the preliminary analysis by the labor department, the recovery of the economy this year lead to an increase in employment, __________ with the same period last year. 

Children are__________ with these horror films. 

Robert is getting ready to realize his dream: opening a business __________ plants on the Internet. 

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I need your ........ to repair the roof.

He hit the other boy again and again as his friends ________him on.

While her husband was in the army, Janet.......................... to him twice a week. 

Many people are dying                                   various types of cancer.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

He insisted on listening to the entire story.

 There … some good news about my family lately. 

I can’t believe that you _______ all the three exercises! You just started five minutes ago.

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A ......... holiday can help you out of depression.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ...... forever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ...... twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ........ They are being filled with poison, industrial and nuclear (4) ......., chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead. The North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ...... of half the earth's living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ...... on the world's climate and on our agriculture and food supplies, will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ...... - a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ...... to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds, including the tiger, to (9) ........ Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money - and if more governments wake up to what is happening -perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help US to avoid the disaster that (10) ...... the natural world, and all of US will be with it.
(8)..................

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
(6).........................

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

No firm can ---------- to rely forever only on the strength of its name to sell products. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Water in the UK is_______________ , you can take it directly from the tap.

She .............................German for two years. 

Anyone…………experiences complications with the new software is encouraged to bring this matter to Mr. Gruber's attention in room 210.

At local neighborhood level, trees also _______ important environment benefits.

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We saw many beautiful birds _______ in the lake.

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Don’t let children .......... in the kitchen.