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New York is the city________I have visited several times

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One of the fundamentals of education, mathematics is taught from the earliest grades in school.

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It can be ___________ from the evidence that the killer was quite a young man

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The team entered the competition with great confidence after getting sound advice from their coach.

After graduating from university, I want to ____ my father's footsteps.

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I was amazed to discover that Mary's husband and Jane's son are ________________ and the same (person)

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He retired feeling confident that his company was ________________ safe hands

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You can find many _______ in the school’s library

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Police are __________________ reports that he embezzled money

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Her reputation suffered a _____________ blow as a result of the scandal

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Not only _______ the exam but he was also the best student in his class

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Why he was absent from the class yesterday __________ unknown

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
(8).........................

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Despite ------ declines in revenue over the past six months, the Mori & McGee firm intents to hire three new patent lawyers next year

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He scored his first goal of the match three minutes after the ____________

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____________ the ability to delay normal cognitive decline as we age, there are significant social benefits to lifelong learning

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My mom ____ to the supermarket every Sunday for shopping

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At school, we were _________________ to wear uniforms, which I hated.

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The police warned us not to engage in any kind of _________________ behavior on the boardwalk

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Which word is the synonym of the word “chance (n)”

These quick and easy _______ can be effective in the short term, but they have a cost