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She was so busy that she couldn’t answer the phone

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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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The book, first ______ in 1970, has sold over a million copies

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______________ I feel my brain function most effectively in the morning, I prefer to study during time of day

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Over the last century, there ____ many significant changes in the way we live.

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If you want to get a good apartment, you may have to give the manager some money under the _______

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Beethoven, ____ music you have just been listening to, is one of my favourite composers.

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She sent me a________thank-you letter for my invitation

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The clock on the wall_________quarter to five.

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She put so ______sugar in the soup that she couldn’t have it. It was too sweet.

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Wage rates should depend on levels of________

Rewrite: Laurence has hardly worked since he graduated from university three years ago

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Once _____ for viruses, the software can be installed in the school computer system for use.

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Police said they arrested Maria because her evidences did not _________________

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Discount broker TD Waterhouse has stirred up a hornets’ ________ with the announcement that it will introduce margin trading into the UK

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They had been selling stolen cars for years before the police ________________them

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The singer had an accident when he was on_________tin Asia.

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In Vietnam it is________for children to start their primary school at the age of six

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 Both CARE and Oxfam organisations have programmes to help people in underdeveloped countries better their lives.

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After being chased by the police a long way, the criminal managed to escape by the skin of his ____________

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Watching too much ________ on TV and in video games is the main reason which increases in violence among young people