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When I woke up this morning, it ......  

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We ..........TV when it started to rain.

This habit has become necessary because social changes today take place with increasing speed and ______ the lives of more and more people.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: So far we have completed fewer than half of the twenty lessons in the same reading book that their class has ______ finished.

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He wondered who was going to pay for the .................. window.

I .......................in the room now. 

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What an excellent student she is! She almost has no ……… the exercise.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

The Globe Lighting Supply handbook.................... a list of important company telephone numbers.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

The tasks that Ms. Ogawa must …. are outlined in her employment agreement.

 Laos and Myanmar were admitted _______ ASEAN in 1997.

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ASEAN economic cooperation _______ many areas, such as agriculture, industry, services, transportations, and tourism.

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I have not seen my dog _______ the storm struck the community.

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A quarter of something ......................

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The crowd at a football match are often .................

Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

Although we argued with him for a long time, he stood his ground.

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
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A notice __________ today's special events is posted on the bulletin board. 

Jack ................... the door. 

Be prepared! No matter how good the childcare may be, some children are going to protest wildly if they are left. This is a  _____ normal stage of child development.

Horn, like fingernails, is made of keratin and has no proven medicinal ___________.