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

Event coordinators should include receipts for________above 25 dollars in their reports.

Horn, like fingernails, is made of keratin and has no proven medicinal ___________.

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
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His village was completely _____ in the earthquake.

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I didn’t know ............... that machine.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Bats are fascinating …….have many interesting and amazing qualities.

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, started in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen by chance. It was the  ______ of changes in the way people lived in those places at that time.

While she _______ breakfast, I set the table.

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:

Did anyone acknowledge responsibility for the outbreak of the fire ?

Opera singer Maria Callas was known for her ________, powerful voice.

Although it is true that some people in the neighborhood supported the expansion of the market a few years ago, now most of them…........…that it has gotten out of control and created many serious problems for the area.

Strategic alliances are being _             with major European companies.

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He is not ……….to understand what the old man is saying.

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My son has a big_________, he’s always telling stories about things which didn’t happen!

 John and Mary are engaged. They are going to get __________. 

Lan is really__________ about going to Singapore. 

This habit has become necessary because social changes today take place with increasing speed and ______ the lives of more and more people.

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.
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My sister brought her camera into this area illegally so it was_____________.

Politicians___________blame the media if they don’t win the election. They’re so predictable.

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I’ll never understand this,______________hard I try!