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We invite you to participate in our guest survey about your recent overnight stay at the 

Matsuyama Elegance Hotel. Your feedback is --------- important to us as it helps ensure  we are meeting our goals of exceptional hospitality and unequalled service. 

You must be freezing - why don’t you sit by the fire and_____ up a bit.

The robbers packed the diamonds into a suitcase and ___ in a van that waited for them in the street.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
The Philippines, officially known (1) _____ the Republic of the Philippines, is (2) _____ in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine (3) ____ 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national (4) _____ is the 37th largest in the world with a 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of over 117.562 billion USD. There are (5) _____ 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century and an American territory at the (6) _____ of the 20th century. The Philippines won independence from Spain in 1896. The Philippines (7) _____ its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Spanish was (8) _____ official language of the Philippines until 1973. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino and English. The Philippines had cultural ties with Malaysia, Indonesia, and India in the ancient time, and trade (9) _____ with China and Japan as early as the 9th century. The late 1960s and early 1970s its economic development was second in Asia, (10) _____ to Japan. The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/ The Philippines is also a member of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and an active member in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
(7)........................

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________ in the field of neurobiology consider Dr. Patterson’s study  inconclusive because of its limited sample size. 

Monica was so angry about the noise her neighbors were making that she refused to ____it anymore.

Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to each of the following questions.

Tom should have known better than to ask Dick to help him.

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Because there were so………. people registered for the Business Writing seminar, it was postponed until September.

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Since jobs in the global division require extensive international travel, employees must be able to……… to unfamiliar situations.

The forecast has revealed that the worlds reserves of fossil fuel will have _____.

 I .........................at 8 o’clock every morning. 

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Employees should_________ the shift manager if assembly work is interrupted by a machinery breakdown.

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Applications for scholarships should be submitted to the selection committee in a….. manner.

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There was field after field of golden____________waving in the wind. 

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All the members of the__________-- had a party after the play was over.

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A country which exports a lot of rice is called a(n) _________ country.

He’s the …..of this machine

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Does Tom own that car? No, I think his brother ........ it now.

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Under the direction of James Pak, the orchestra has become one of the most highly------- performing arts groups in the region. 

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Staff members --------- for promotion will be notified by management within ten days.

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.