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Employees who attend the workshop on improving communication skills will be given a certificate of  ______________  by the instructor.

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There has been a hot debate among the scientists relating to the pros and cons of using robotic probes to study distant objects in space.

Education is our first   ___________   now. We are trying to do what we can to make it  better.

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Today is ............... hottest day of the year.

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Due to a _______________   in his political position, the senator no longer supported to propose on immigration.

The research team in Atlanta has alerted the head office that their reports will be finished ...........

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Investigators visited the site to ensure that it complied with the  ______________  regulations in the field.

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Peter has a separate room for his musical .

Mark the letter A. B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions: 

Perhaps more than anything else, it was onerous taxes that led to 'the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381.

My son got a job working directly under a prominent businessman. Its a very_______ start to his career.

Josh couldn’t open the door .............  the lock was broken.

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

(A) The science of medicine, (B) which progress has been (C) very rapid lately, is perhaps the most important of (D) all sciences.

Find the mistake in each of the following question: 

The assumption that smoking has bad effects on our health have been proved.

Human beings have driven rare animals and plants __________ of extinction in the past 100 years.

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Ms. Chang was promoted to section chief ------- only six months on the job.

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Jeans are very popular with (23) _________ people all over the world. Some people say that
jeans are the “uniform” of youth. But they haven’t always been popular. The story of jeans started (24) _________ two hundred years ago. People in Genoa, Italy made pants so the cloth made in Genoa (25) _________ “jeanos”. Accordingly, the pants were called “jeans”.
   In 1850, a salesman in California began selling pants made of canvas. His name was Levi Strauss. Because they were so strong, “Levi’s pants” became (26)_________ gold miners, farmers and cowboys. Six years later, Levi began making his pants with blue cotton cloth called denim. Soon after, factory (27) _________in the US and Europe began wearing jeans. At the time, young people actually didn’t wear them very much until later on.
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I'm not lazy but I think we have ______public holidays. We ought to have more. 

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The Ott Institute designs successful videos, but the process _____________   to take longer benefits than expected.

Smoke, dirt and noise are all kinds of __________.

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A government  _____________  will visit the site to talk with protesters directly and seek a resolution.

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According to the physician, Ms. Oliver's pain ____________   within two hours of taking the medication.