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Mobile Me,  __________  was established in 2010, is now the biggest mobile phone provider in the area.

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Customers at Blaze Restaurant may use the valet parking service or park the vehicles ______________.

I gave him my e-mail address ................. he could keep in touch with me.

I want to introduce you to Sharon. She is _____ very nice person. 

Andrew was ________ enough on becoming a professional singer and he didn’t want to listen to anybody else’s advice.

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.
(42).........................

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Mr. Ruotolo's  ___________  on the new tax changes is scheduled for 10:00 A.M.

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Unless the division needs to   ________ the vacancy immediately, a replacement will not be hired until January next year.

The players' protests ................ no difference to the referee's decision at all

One remedy is to pump limestone into the acidic lakes. _________, it is not possible to do this on a large enough scale to save all the lakes.

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More and more ________ are very excited at discovering as many interesting things in the deserts as possible.

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Please note that the swimming pool will be closed for the rest of the week  ______________  extensive renovation work.

I had a  ................, which I couldn't explain, that something terrible was going to happen.

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Norton & Preston has  _______  as a nationally recognized firm, with the capability and resources to serve many thousands of diverse clients domestically and abroad.

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We will be changing the store layout with the ------ of encouraging shoppers to spend more time browsing the products.

 I think you should stay  ...............

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Because of  ___________  fuel costs, some people are choosing to stay home for the summer vacation rather than drive to tourist sites.

The Master Gardeners Club had to-------- its monthly meeting because the community center's conference room was double-booked.

The Simpson Desert was named _______ Mr. Simpson, President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia.

Seaward of the continental shelves_______ the Arctic Basin proper, which is subdivided into a set of three parallel ridges and four basins (also known as deeps).

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

A central issue in probability is foretelling the value of a future observation.