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I suspected that my friend was stealing money from me, and then I ______________ her in the act.

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He is quite sure that it's ____ impossible for him to lose five kilos within two days

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His wife must have been a saint to put ________________ him for all those years

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Applications for the job must be received ____ 15th April.

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People of different countries have quite different life styles. We American are wasteful people, (25) _______ saving. Our grandfathers began this pattern, for nature’s resources seemed so plentiful that no one ever imagined a shortage. Within a few years of the first Virginia settlement, for example, pioneers burned down their houses when they were ready to move to west. They only wanted to have the nails for (26) _______ use. No one ever gave a thought to the priceless hardwoods that went up in smoke. We the people in the United States destroy many things that other peoples save. I (27) _______ this when I was living in Britain. I received a letter from one of England’s largest banks. It was enclosed in a used envelop that had been readdressed to me. Such a practice would be (28) _______ in the United States. American banks, (29) _______ the smallest, always use expensive stationery with the names of all twenty-eight vice-presidents listed on one side of the page

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To better understand the effects of crying in humans, it is also important to consider the animal counterparts to human crying (in the domain of communication), as well as other animal behaviors that might serve stress-reducing functions. In all mammals and most birds, offspring react with (25)_____ calls or distress calls to being removed from the parents. There can be little doubt that this is the phylogenetic basis of the acoustical crying of human infants. This very basic form of crying is meant to undo the separation from the parents and it is not likely to have any direct soothing function. Rather, this behavior seems to be associated with a state of increased arousal and result in soothing because of the comfort and support it elicited, that is, because it has (26)_____ its inter-individual function. In animals, distress calls are mainly (27)_____ by young offspring, and they are never accompanied by the production of tears. (28)_____ , candidates for the mechanisms that might contribute to reduction of distress in non-human animals (and in humans as well) can be found in displacement behaviors and stereotypes, (29)_____ are proposed to serve communicative functions as well

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Linda and Peter are at the school gate,
Linda: “ _______ ”
Peter: “Sorry I can’t make it today. I’m quite busy.”

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My aunt puts aside some money on a monthly basis to buy a ________ house

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You can't make him _______ if he doesn't want to

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Children and parents should be concerned about _______ knowledge of growing vegetables and raising pets

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There were 79 killed and 230 ________in a bomb explosion at the embassy

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On the slope of Long's Peak in Colorado ................... the ruin of a gigantic tree.

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Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer had been worked out over two centuries ago by a man (39) _____ Charles Babbage. Babbage was bom in 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines which he called "engines". But despite the fact that he (40)_____building some of these, he never finished any of them. Over the years, people have argued (41)_____his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building(42)_____engine based on one of Babbage's designs. (43)_____has taken six years to complete and more than four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to remind people of Babbage's work

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A press conference about the sudden resignation of the financial minister will be ------- today at 4 P.M.

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They took ____ measures to prevent poisonous gases from escaping

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Global warming is among many factors that drive many species of animals to the ____ of extinction

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Tom is still ........... his divorce, so he's been a little distant at work

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Polar bears are in danger of dying out. (25) _____ some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears live has reduced in size by about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (26) _____ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (27) _____ the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt. Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (28) _____ to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (29) _____ fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further

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_______, he can never follow me

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The director gave her a(n) _______ scarf

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What will we do if the taxi .............................?