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 ___ picture do you prefer, this one or that one?

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It is obvious that dinosaurs died ____________ millions of years ago

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The United States and China have (16)_______ a deal that allows the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE to stay in business in exchange for paying an additional $1 billion in fines and agreeing to let US regulators monitor its operations. The fine comes (17)_______ Donald Trump stepped in to save the company after US regulators barred it from doing business in the US, an effective death blow for the company. In addition to the fine, a compliance team chosen by the US will be embedded at ZTE and the Chinese company must change its board and executive team. “ZTE is essentially on (18)_______,” said Amanda DeBusk, chair of the international trade and government regulation practice at Dechert LLP and a former commerce official. “It’s unprecedented to have US agents as monitors ... It’s (19)_______ a good precedent for this situation. ZTE is a repeat offender.” The news did little to appease critics. Senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence, said: “It is the unanimous conclusion of our nation’s intelligence community that ZTE poses a significant threat to our national security. These concerns aren’t new; back in 2012, the House permanent select committee on intelligence released a report (20)_______ the serious counterintelligence concerns associated with ZTE equipment

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I wish another more effective teaching method______used

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They really ripped us ____ at that hotel; they charged me a lot of money

Find which word does not belong in each group.

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The next year they will ..... a low-priced car to compete with Ford

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Ba dropped his watch when he was ____ the bus

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Last Sunday, our volunteer team ____ a lot of food packages to homeless people in the flood-hit region

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Jimmy always takes the _____ by the horns at every chance in order to become a famouspop star, which is why he is so successful now

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On the door of the house where Louis Braille was born are the words ‘He opened the door of ____ to all those who cannot see.

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While the Cambridge boat ____ under a bridge, it ____ another boat

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Within an area of only 100 miles, Death Valley sinks to 282 feet below sea level while Mount Whitney ............. to a height of 14,494 feet

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Anna often dresses ____ when going to the parties in order to attract her friends' attention

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We will wait here _______he comes back

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Once ....... as the World Natural Heritage by UNESCO, Phong Nha – Ke  Bang National Park attracts a great number of visitors worldwide

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Chris ......... me ....... on what had been agreed at the meeting

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Early sociologists such as Karl Mannheim noted differences across generations in how the youth transits into ____

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He got faint, but soon ........

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Many groups worldwide are trying to develop vaccines that protect against a wide range of coronaviruses and prevent (26) _______ pandemic. These efforts have now been boosted by the discovery that some healthcare workers had pre-existing immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the first wave of the pandemic. During the first half of 2020, around 700 healthcare workers in the UK were tested weekly as part of a crowdfunded study called Covid Sortium. Most of these people, who wore protective equipment, never tested positive for covid-19 in PCR tests or developed covid-19 antibodies – proteins that (27) _______ to the outside of viruses, preventing cells from being infected. (28)_______ , when Leo Swadling and Mala Maini at University College London and their colleagues looked more closely, they found some of those (29) _______ tested negative had a protein in their blood that is linked to covid-19 infection, as well as T cell responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. T cells are (30) _______ of the immune system

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Hardly ___________ a word when her son came back