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Viet Nam ______________ Tet according to the lunar calendar.

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It was decided that I would stand ______________ my sister at the head of the company while she took her sabbatical

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I can't believe she cut me ...... in front of the entire department just because I was a few minutes late to the meeting

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It is high time we got going, …..?

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Come ____________, Helen, you can tell me. I won't tell anyone

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My family is trying ____ where to go on holiday

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Membership of the club has fallen ........ in recent months

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If we _____ wasting water, there will be a shortage of freshwater in a few decades

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Two students are talking about their friend Tim:
A: “Tim has a very easy job. He's paid a lot of money to do little.” – B: “____”

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Effective learning requires that you acquire information through reading, listening, observing, practising, experimenting and experience. Information is all around you: the trick is to acquire relevant and meaningful information and develop this into knowledge and skills.

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Look at these photos. They ________ in Brazil or Columbia. Certainly not in Cuba

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The neighbors are out looking ____________ their dog yet again

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When you find money on the street and you don't know ____ it belongs to, collect and help save someone's life.

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In this subject, we study the language people speak in England.

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It is earth's gravity that ................... people their weight.

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Xavier is English, _________?

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He enjoyed acting but he wasn't __________ much money

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Management is looking _________ ways of cutting costs

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To better understand the effects of crying in humans, it is also important to consider the animal counterparts to human crying (in the domain of communication), as well as other animal behaviors that might serve stress-reducing functions. In all mammals and most birds, offspring react with (25)_____ calls or distress calls to being removed from the parents. There can be little doubt that this is the phylogenetic basis of the acoustical crying of human infants. This very basic form of crying is meant to undo the separation from the parents and it is not likely to have any direct soothing function. Rather, this behavior seems to be associated with a state of increased arousal and result in soothing because of the comfort and support it elicited, that is, because it has (26)_____ its inter-individual function. In animals, distress calls are mainly (27)_____ by young offspring, and they are never accompanied by the production of tears. (28)_____ , candidates for the mechanisms that might contribute to reduction of distress in non-human animals (and in humans as well) can be found in displacement behaviors and stereotypes, (29)_____ are proposed to serve communicative functions as well

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Polar bears are in danger of dying out. (25) _____ some other endangered animals, it's not hunters that are the problem, it's climate change. Since 1979, the ice cap at the Arctic Circle where the polar bears live has reduced in size by about 30 per cent. The temperature in the Arctic has slowly been rising and this is (26) _____ the sea ice to melt, endangering the polar bears' home. The polar bears' main sources of food are the different types of seals found in the Arctic. They catch them by waiting next to the air holes seals have made in the ice. (27) _____ the bears are very strong swimmers, they could never catch seals in water. This means that the bears really do rely on the ice to hunt. Polar bears also need sea ice to travel. They can cover a huge territory and often swim from one part of the ice to another. They have been (28) _____ to swim up to 100 km, but when there is less ice, they may have to swim further and this can (29) _____ fatal to the bears. A number of bears have drown in the last few years and scientists believe that it is because they were not able to reach more ice before they became too tired and couldn't swim any further

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The fictitious androids written about in the mid-1900s are becoming a reality with advances in the field of robotics. Japan and Korea have been pioneers in this field. They regularly compete to be the first. The focus on most reseachers is in (31) _____ life-like, attractive female androids. A Japanese research group led by Hiroshi Ishiguro created ther world’s first female android, which is called Actroid in 2003. The early model was limited so upgrades were made and the dramatic entertainment model was released in 2006. Actroids are covered with a silicone skin and have built-in sensors making them (32) _____ of reacting to humans, and they can also mimic many human behaviors. (33) _____, they can be programmed to speak in any language. The Korean android, EveR-2, released in 2006, was designed by a team from Kitech. They claim that she is more life-like than Actroids, and she can mimic emtions. She can also speak and move her lips to match her (34) _____. Future models are expected to have higher mobility and even be proficient in dancing. Research teams have also created male androids. One in particular is the Germinoid HI-I. Regardless of the competition, it’s clear that this technology will one day present us (35) _____ the dilemma of determining human from machine