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He always pushes himself to the limit ____________ he can have the chance to find out who he really wants to be andwhere he really wants to go

Despite ..............efforts and partial success for the last few years, the unemployent rate is still in the rise.

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I_______ my chance to get that job because I had arrived late for the interview

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Scarcely _______ each other since they had a quarrel

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The extent____________ the stock market is affected by the day-to-day pronouncements of the President of the United States is astonishing.

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The more different cultures work together, ______ essential to avoid problems

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

He was brought up in a well-off family. He can’t understand the problems we are facing.

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His ideas about marriage are quite different _____ mine.

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
(17).....................................

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His parents won’t let him play ice hockey because they think it’s too _________

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When I was a little girl, my whole family always had lots of pets –dogs, cats, hamsters ..... –the whole _____ yards

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Priscilla Chan, who is Mark Zuckerber’s wife, is not beautiful, ____ she is an intelligent girl

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The news of his acceptance knocked everybody ______

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When she came home, she gave me a ____ to apologize to me for going home late at night

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She says that he swept her off her _____________, and they were married six months later

If you stay up late the previous night, you ___________ sleepy the next morning.

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They are both great but you can’t compare apples and _______________

Overpopulation in urban areas tends to create unfavourable conditions, which may result in ____ of food in developing countries.

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

 I don’t like him. There is a sneaky look on his face.

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Public schools have dropped the _____ when it comes to teaching kids about art and music

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Do you think it’s possible to _______ on nothing but fruit and vegetables?