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Potassium has a valence of positive one because it usually loses one electron when ___________ with other elements

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That was the week ____________ we booked our holiday.

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We haven’t got __________ petrol. We need to stop and get some.

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Thanks to his parents’ _________, he tried his best to win in a math competition at a university.

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‘Let the cat out of the _____’ is an idiom meaning to tell a secret by mistake

I wish you __ complaining about the weather.

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Brass players make sound by “buzzing” their lips ____ blowing into the mouthpiece, they change notes with the help of valves or slides

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Up to then, I _____ such a fat man.

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Thousands are going starving because of the failure of this year's harvest.

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He is ______________ than me, so it’s certain that he will achieve more success than me

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The year 2000 can be considered as a milestone for the hearing-impaired as the Nippon Foundation launched a disability support project.

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A patent invention is protected by law ____ only particular people or companies have the right to make or sell it

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He frequently walked here________because he wanted to see her

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He said that everything will be all right.

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Don’t read too much ____ her leaving so suddenly –she probably just had a train to catch

Stress and tiredness often lead to lack of _______.' 

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We're surprised to hear that his musical talent was nurtured by their loving parents when he was a child.

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 She wasn’t close to her mum. She was thought to confide all her secrets to her best friend only.

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In some Asian families, parents tend to have far __________ control over their children than those in some American families

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 ___ at school yesterday when we were informed that there was no class due to a sudden power cut.