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Why he was absent from the class yesterday __________ unknown

If you saw how they _____ cattle, you would never eat meat again.

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Our request for permission to travel met with/received a flat/point-blank (= complete) ________________ from the authorities

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The bomb _______ went out this morning caused a lot of damage

A nuclear family or elementary family is a family group ______ a pair of adults and their children

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We're trying to raise _____________ about the environment in general and air pollution in particular

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Whenever Lisa is around the house, everyone has to walk on __________ around her in order not to get her annoyed

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the undelined part that needs correction in each of the following questions:

China, the fourth (A) largest and the most populated (B) country in the world, is on its way to becoming (C) the most domineering (D) nation on the planet today.

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The government is not ____________ to the idea of a Freedom of Information Act

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The purpose of this meeting is to receive public feedback on the designs of the ____ new public library

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The teacher speaks English__________we do.

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------- the kitchen cabinets arrived late, the contractor installed them without putting the job behind schedule

The average  ___________ pays 27 penny a day in water rates.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

He’s such a phony. He’s always complaining about his friends behind their back, but whenever he sees them, he says really nice things about them.

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There’s someone _____________on the door. Come to see who he/she is

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You _________ your project yet, I suppose.

I think your stylist has taken her ............................... from the rubbish dump.

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Those __________ approve of strip mining point out that coal is needed

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
(3).........................

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Betsy Riley will seek support from ------- volunteers for our revised museum tours

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The heads of ------ department in the company must attend the training session in Kolkata