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She’d rather take a rest after a hard-working day, ______?

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Open-air markets, for example, always carry huge in-store advertisements when they _______ the prices of products

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________ several unsuccessful attempts, Robert Peary reached the North Pole on April 6th, 1909

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The band seemed to lack the ________ and spontaneity of their early years.

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Not only the little children but a few adults were ______________with this nasty cold

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.

                                                           THE DANGERS OF DIETING

Thanks to our moden lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers than ever before, the (31)________ of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a solution (32)________ this problem, they often try some of the popular fad diets being offered. Many people sea fad diets (33)________ harmless ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only don’t fad diets usually (34) ________ weight. While the reckless use of fad diets can bring some initial results, long-term results are very rare.

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Some people will go to any ______ to make money.

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Climbing down the tree, one of the eggs was broken so he decided to throw it away.

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Penny _____________ good impression on my parents. She is so polite

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_______ her fiction describes women in unhappy marriage

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The man ____________ about his son’s travelling because there is so much traffic on the narrow and crowded way to school

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Yesterday, my husband gave me a(n) ___________ painting he bought when he went on a business trip

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We’ve been tearing our ________________ out trying to decide what to do

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You must go to the doctor because your heath is getting worse, _______?

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People in the mountainous areas are still in the habit of destroying forests for cultivation.

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Despite the long history of the rights of property ownership, there has been _________ disagreement over whatsuch rights entail

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A US man with a large online following in Vietnam has caused widespread anger, and faces possible criminal charges, over a Facebook post thought to have insulted a military hero.

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With the good ____________ of both Vietnamese and English, Miss Loan was assigned the task of oral interpretation for the visiting American delegation

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We were all in___________ of the fact that the new manager was our old friend Duncan

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Students are encouraged to develop critical thinking _____ accepting opinions without questioning them

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According to Freud, dreams can be interpreted as the fulfillment of wishes.