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I haven't been back to the village where I was born ........ a long time.

 

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

The hiring committee had discussed the possibility of interviewing the candidates in person but decided on telephone interviews………

Could you _     me a hand with the washing-up, Kent?

In my  ________, a person travelling alone sometimes meets with unexpected hospitality, and this trip was no exception.

When _______ your application, be sure to check the reply address is correct. 

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I think most children are creative enough to write .......... poems.

Choose the underlined part that needs correction: 

When you realized you may have difficulty arranging last month’s conference, you should have told me so that I could have gotten more people to volunteer.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:   Lien’s mother complimented her ____ the lovely new dress.

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentences:

The association of Southeast Asian nations gives a forum for its members ________ socio-economic development.

It was a disaster on the ______ of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

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We ..........TV when it started to rain.

What would you do if he ___________ to your party?

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)
(8)........................

 Because anxiety often ............ more than one cause and is experienced in highly individual ways, its treatment usually............more than one type of therapy. 

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
(4)........................

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

The audience enjoyed the play so much that they______________for ten minutes. 

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:

Sports and festivals form an integral part of every human society.

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.

(2)..........................

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

Evergo's latest hiking shoe, the Rugged Wear Trekker,  

is -------- named for its durability and strength. 

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It is time all the nations ........... to solve environmental problems.

You need to figure out how many calories you need in a day and how many you actually ______.