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Our boss objects ____ using any different methods.

One advantage of living in a/an ____ is to strengthen relationship between young children and adults.

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She called me this morning at the office and we had a________________ chat.

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He ___________ an example for the other students because of his outstanding achievement.

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All of us here at Britannia Airlines strive ------- customer expectations at all times

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It is better to try to work ....... rather than against nature

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Mr. Koizumi must complete the cost estimate before he ------- for the conference

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Computers are considered as_________ tools today.

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

Jane has such bewitching smile that almost everyone seems to dote on her.

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The office manager is……for supporting staff members and ensuring that their work is done efficiently

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During our stay in Paris, my wife bought a __________ bottle

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Peter, with his two buddies, _______________ the cherry tree now

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He got good marks at his exams because he spent almost his time ___________his lessons

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We had to spend the whole month searching for better solutions, and.......customers were impressed by our efforts

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I like the teacher. I learnt English with her in high school.

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The government is ____________ ways to reduce the cost of health care

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I saw him__________a song in his room.

According to some scientists, _________ killed the dinosaurs could happen again in modern times.

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 It never stops raining here. I wish it ______ raining

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.
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We had the printer ________ but they couldn’t work out what the problem was; they said it was just too old a model