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Many reports in newspapers talked a lot about the ............. of UFOs.

It turned out that we_____ to the airport as the plane was delayed by several hours.

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.
(42)..............................

....................... laws and regulations which impose restrictions on any rights should be revised to comply with international law.

Dwelling primarily in the ice Northern Polar seas, beluga whales are characteristically small, white, agile, and elusive.

Choose the best answer among A, B, c or D that best completes sentence:  My mother has lost one of my gloves, she must _____ dropped it somewhere.

The twins used to play rugby when they were four year old, ________ ?

Choose the correct answer in each sentence.

Delegates from the industry's most widely   ______________ social media marketing firms will speak at next week's summit.

Choose the correct answer to complete the sentence. "He acts like an innocent man even_____ the evidence shows the contradiction."

Gwendolyn Brooks, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950, had 75 poems published by the time she was twenty.

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:

I am sure that they will be sacked on the spot.

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.

It was Giovanni Luppis, an officer in the army of the Austrian empire, who first came up with the idea of a self-propelled anti-ship weapon.

Becoming an astronauts is so demanding that _______ people manage it. 

Choose the correct answer in each sentence.

The human resources department is ------- pressure to find a replacement for the senior accountant.

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It was ................. to listen to the story which the guide told. 

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

Be careful! The tree is going to fall.

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He is tired now ................... he played soccer in the afternoon.

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Even though subscriptions to the The Marinberg Herald's print edition have steadily declined, its online --------- continues to grow.

When morning came, the scene of where the bomb had fallen was one of utter _____. 

I made a real_______ in my English when I started practicing listening more often.

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He ........ answered these questions.