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A committee has been __________ to organize social events for the students

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This year's heavy rains ------- affected road construction plans scheduled to be completed this fall

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Our flight to Narita International Airport is scheduled to ------- at 10 A.M. on Wednesday

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I enjoyed the movie very much. I wish I______the book from which it was made

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They gave the boy a _____________ car on his birthday

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The sun ……………………in the East.

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Have orange juice, _________?

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I have to ..... on my work so I can't come out

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Many animals in the wild are suspicious and fearful of human beings. Many animals would take escape instantly (20)_____a human approaches. Man, however, soon discovered that some animals can be tamed or domesticated. Unlike animals in the wild, these animals would (21)_____ man to come close to them. They would even allow their owners to stroke or pet them. In the early times man would domesticate animals by setting traps to catch their young. A young animal is (22) _____ easily domesticated than an adult one. From young,the animal learns to trust and obey its owner. Many different kinds of animals have been domesticated. Some common examples are animals like horses, elephants, chickens and pigs. The dog, which is also (23)_____ as "man's best friend", is one of the first animals to have been domesticated. In England, long ago, the pig was a wild animal. It was a ferocious and aggressive (24)_____which was not easily captured. Yet nowadays, the domesticated pig is no longer the lean and tough than creature it used to be

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An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes are recognized (25) _____ vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in (26) _____. They are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. The underground point of (27) _____ of the earthquake is called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the epicenter. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary events (28) _____ they trigger, such as building collapse, fires, tsunamis (seismic sea waves) and volcanoes, that are actually the human disaster. Many of these could possibly be avoided by better construction, safety systems, early warning and (29) ____ planning

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The reason for all the changes being made to us ____ yet

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Advances in mobile technology and social networking websites mean we spend more time online than ever before. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world by population (The Economist, 2010). It is (25) _____ not surprising that so many psychologists, sociologists, and others are eager to give their thoughts on how this is impacting negatively on our society. The biggest criticism levelled at social networking is that young people are losing their offline friends to online friends (26) _____ are unable to provide the same deep connection and emotional support. However, a lot of research shows these criticisms are generally (27) _____. Allen et al. (2010) discovered that it is socially adjusted adolescents who are more likely to have a networking profile than those who are not. One study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2009) found that people are not (28) _____ offline friends with online companions but are using them to support their offline relationships. The study also found that social networks allow us to have discussions with a much more diverse set of people than in the real world, so we share knowledge with people from a wide (29) _____ of backgrounds

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Over the past 50 years, near-surface air temperatures across Alaska and the Arctic ____ at a rate more than twice as fast as the global average

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The advantages of the new method really _____ the disadvantages

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 ______________, he will have had a full day and will be ready for sleep

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More emphasis should be placed on _________ alternative sources such as wind, solar energy, and tides

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Longer life spans mean that more generations are living and working simultaneously

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................. for overall health.

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That top looks great on you—it really brings __________ your eyes

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 Rebecca____ on our conversation to tell us that James had just been rushed into hospital

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Mr Pike ______ English at our school for 20 years before he retired last year