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After noticing the wardrobe's ------- condition, the owner of the antique shop lowered its price.

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They waited such a long time that baby Caroline started to cry.

 He is ________ English. 

As the hospital had been careless with its hygiene procedures, the patient found she had been _______ with a harmful virus.

In 2006, the news agency Reuters withdrew from sale 920 pictures taken by a photographer because two images taken in Lebanon were .................. to have been digitally manipulated.

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 The board of directors  __________  has not formed a project team; however, announcement is expected by the end of the month.

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Payments to the Wendell Lake Association will be considered late _________   they are received after January 1.

Mario has now ............... to the point where his English is almost fluent.

Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  …….  a detailed plan, the project was doomed from the start.

I think you need a jacket, there’s a ____ breeze blowing outside.

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The ________ of a cliff, or mountain, is a vertical surface or side of it

Stop making that noise! You are getting on my  ................  !

Most young people want to ____ an independent life without being influenced by anyone.

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Ms. Kelly has been working in the same position for 8  __________  years.

Who was the first person ..............  the South Pole?

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Over the past five years household incomes have increased  _________  , accompanying a sharp decline in the unemployment rate.

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________ parking attendants on duty, all employees will gather to hear the announcement from the general manager.

United Parcel Service (UPS) believes that its employees should give the firm a fair day’s work for a fair’s day pay. The package delivery firm seems willing to give more than a fair’s day pay. But in (35) ____, UPS expects maximum output from its employees. Since 1920s, the firm’s industrial engineers have been studying every detail of every task (36) ____ by most UPS employees. From their studies have come time and motion standards that (37) ____ how those tasks are performed and how long they should take. Drivers, for example, are expected to walk to a customer’s door at a speed of exactly three feet per second. They are told to knock as soon as they get there, rather than (38) ____ time looking for a doorbell. Work engineers are (39) ____ riding with drivers, timing everything from stops at traffic lights, to wait at customers’ doorway, to stairway climbs, to coffee break. And they are not (40) ____ to pointing out the occasional inefficiency. Additionally, supervisors ride with the least good drivers, noting how they work and constantly (41) ____ them until their work is up to standard. The (42) ____of all this work engineering is efficiency, and UPS has been called one of the most efficient companies anywhere. It's also a highly profitable company. Most drivers take the regimentation in stride: many show (43) ____ in meeting the UPS standards each day. Others, however, feel that they are constantly being pushed, that it is impossible for them to (44) ____ at work. UPS officials claim that the standards provide accountability. And, they say, employees who work according to UPS standards should feel less tired at the end of the day.
(43).........................

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On November 3, Ms. Danielle Cole   _______________ a webinar discussing the value of managed services.

Why don't you make it bigger and more careful to ................  people’s attention?

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The Welcome Committee always strives to extend  _______________  to new members.