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I wish I could make a trip ........................ the world.

 All students must…………homework before going to class

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A banquet was held to honor five employees, all of _____________   have worked at the company for more than 20 years.

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Researchers have found that people are sleeping almost two fewer hours a night than they were in the 1960s, and our health is deteriorating as a result.

________ is destroying larger areas of tropical rain forests.

All of the students appreciate the ................... of English learning.

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Ms. Johnson_______________    a feasible solution to the customer's network problem.

Customers ------- wish to retum merchandise within 7 days of purchase must present the valid receipt to the store.

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The company issued a statement yesterday evening in ______________   to the merger agreement.

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He went away without .............. the door.

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She hates.................... housework at weekends. 

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By the time its weeklong promotion was over, Polk Mobile  ______________  to sell almost its entire inventory of Kelstra smart phones.

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The flat is very noisy, .................. we enjoy living there. 

Probability of extinction depends _______ both the population size and fine details of the population demography.

Alan........... to loud rock music for three hours when her friends arrived.

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No one knew precisely what would happen to human being in space.

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Many people suppose that the more popular television programmes become, the more badly they seem.

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I am .................. of gardening and growing a wide variety of flowers. 

What does global warming have.................. overpopulation?

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best option for each of the blanks.
People’s fingernails and toenails, according to a recent study, are nowadays growing more quickly. Research (35) _____ out at the University of North Carolina indicates that the speed at which human nails are growing has increased by (36) _____ 25 per cent over the last 70 years. The results of the study show that the (37)_____ human fingernail now grows about 3.5 mm a month, (38) _____ just 3 mm seven decades ago. Toenail growth, (39) _____ only about 2 mm per month, was also up on the figure (40) _____ in a similar survey done 70 years ago. Researchers (41) _____ the rapid increase down to changes in lifestyle, particularly the greater awareness of the importance of regular exercise and a healthy diet. This, they point out, is in (42) _____with similar trends in the height and weight of present-day adults. Interestingly, it appears that nails have a propensity to grow fastest (43) _____ warmer conditions, with the quickest growth rate among young people, and men. The fastestgrowing nail is on the middle finger while that on the little finger is (44) _____ the slowest, at only a fraction over 3 mm each month.
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Old people and children are particularly__________ to lung diseases in the cold weather.