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Today is a ................ day. The sun shines all the time

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What a pity! Thomas wasn't strong enough to ____ his own confidence

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 ________is your brother? - He is thirteen years old.

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The government have ____ a campaign to relieve poverty and eradicate hunger in the local area

A customer is a person who ..................

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In Africa a famous food company tried to sell its baby food by advertising it with the picture of a baby on the label. They did not know that this particular country used labels only to (19)_________ a picture of the food inside. When Pepsico used the slogan "Come alive with Pepsi' in Taiwan, they had no idea that it would be translated into Chinese as 'Pepsi (20) ________ your ancestors back from the dead’. Misunderstandings such as these about language or about culture are sometimes comical but can also cause genuine hurt or anger. Business styles (21) ________ widely in different countries and what is normal in one culture can be completely unacceptable in another. Socialising in different countries can be tricky. In Arabic countries, for example, people do not discuss business (22) _________ meals. Giving gifts is another potential problem: in the UK most people take presents to a dinner party, but in many countries this is not polite because it (23) _________ you think the host is poor

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People of different countries have quite different life styles. We American are wasteful people, (25) _______ saving. Our grandfathers began this pattern, for nature’s resources seemed so plentiful that no one ever imagined a shortage. Within a few years of the first Virginia settlement, for example, pioneers burned down their houses when they were ready to move to west. They only wanted to have the nails for (26) _______ use. No one ever gave a thought to the priceless hardwoods that went up in smoke. We the people in the United States destroy many things that other peoples save. I (27) _______ this when I was living in Britain. I received a letter from one of England’s largest banks. It was enclosed in a used envelop that had been readdressed to me. Such a practice would be (28) _______ in the United States. American banks, (29) _______ the smallest, always use expensive stationery with the names of all twenty-eight vice-presidents listed on one side of the page

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These kinds of price controls .......... all the financial principles of the free market liberals

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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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Judy's parents respect her ____ to move out and live independently

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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

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The equator is an _____ line that divides the earth into two

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It was _______ plain to the new employees that they should be polite to the customers

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Jo will help us ________ some of the homework

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She's getting over her operation. She feels ____

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The invention of the mobile phone has undoubtedly revolutionized the way people communicate and influenced every aspect of our lives. The issue is whether this technological innovation has (25) _____ more harm than good. In order to answer the question, we must first turn to the types of consumers. Presumably, most parents (26) _____ are always worrying about their children’s safety buy mobile phones for them to track their whereabouts. We can also assume that most teenagers want mobile phones to avoid missing out on social contact. In this context, the advantages are clear. (27) _____, we cannot deny the fact that text messages have been used by bullies to intimidate fellow students. There is also (28) _____ evidence that texting has affected literacy skills. The widespread use of mobile phone has, out of question, affected adult consumers too. What employee, on the way home from work, would be reluctant to answer a call from their boss? Apparently, only 18% of us, according to a survey, are willing to switch off our mobile phones once we've left the office. Admittedly, mobile phones can be intrusive but there are obvious benefits to possessing one. Personally speaking, they are invaluable when it comes to making social or business arrangements at short (29) _____. They also provide their owners with a sense of security in emergency situations

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How much did you ___________ the plumber before he left?

Choose the best option (A, B, c or D) to complete these sentences.

My best friend, Hanh,is ................... She talks all the time.

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Our associates searched the file cabinet for nearly an hour and finally found the missing receipts------- some travel documents

Listen! Someone ______ at the door.

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Friends and relatives came to pay their last ______________ to Mr Clarke