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The young man didn't stop ____ although I asked him twice

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The race had to be cancelled when the storm ........

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He gave her a present to ____________ amends for his rudeness

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How much did you ___________ the plumber before he left?

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Most people think of computers as very modern inventions, products of our new technological age. But actually the idea for a computer had been worked out over two centuries ago by a man (39) _____ Charles Babbage. Babbage was bom in 1791 and grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. He drew up plans for several calculating machines which he called "engines". But despite the fact that he (40)_____building some of these, he never finished any of them. Over the years, people have argued (41)_____his machines would ever work. Recently, however, the Science Museum in London has finished building(42)_____engine based on one of Babbage's designs. (43)_____has taken six years to complete and more than four thousand parts have been specially made. Whether it works or not, the machine will be on show at a special exhibition in the Science Museum to remind people of Babbage's work

Choose below answer A, B, C, or D to complete the sentence.  Steve can deal with difficult exercises. He’s a __________ boy.

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This is Mr and Mrs Simth, those are .................... children.

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Smart cities can improve the efficiency of city services by redundancies, ____ finding ways to save money and streamlining workers' responsibilities

We live in a town house, but our grandparents live in a/ an  ________ house.

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Technology has ____ people live in communities that are more responsive to their needs and that can actually improve their lives

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Jonas was so poor that he had to drop out of school and started working as a waiter  in the local restaurant

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Kitchen appliances called blenders became ............. in the 1930s, when Stephen J. Poplawski developed a machine that excelled at making his favorite drink.

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The coronavirus is so _______ that all citizens in this city contract it

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He cannot ______ ignorance as his excuse; he should have known what was happening in his own department

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If you get caught cheating on your exam, you'll have to ______________ the price which could include expulsion

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The smell was so bad that it completely________ us off our food

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Take these chairs _____________ – we don’t need them

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When we went to Boston, we only had a couple of hours to look ____________

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The outcome was a ________ circle whereby women's work, perceived as low status, was poorly rewarded and therefore regarded as unimportant

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The neighborhood is going to start ______________ people to shame who don't pick up after their pets

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Look _______ this document carefully before you sign it