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The environmental economist  ____________  the average value of production per employee by taking the revenue minus the costs of a company and dividing that number by the number of employees at a company.

He______ his job last month and then he______ out of work 

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

A number of practices at local festivals have come under strong scrutiny in recent years.

The atmosphere at work was so bad that Brian eventually decided to hand in his notice.

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Although not all of the board members approved the business expansion plan,  ______  went ahead on the basis of a majority vote.

Mona's going to leave early this afternoon but she says she'll ____ up the hours tomorrow.

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The girl .............. put up the Christmas decoration is my sister.

Ann has a lot of books, .............. she has never read.

Most people in the world are tolerant of visitors and don‟t mind what travellers do that seems wrong as long as the visitors are __________.

People often use the natural world as inspiration to design and invent new ______ .

As we wanted to be close to ........ nature, we moved to the countryside.

Birds can fly in _________ sky. 

Those flowers are _     _everywhere is a sign of spring.

 Don't walk too fast. I can't keep_________you.

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You can conduct the interviews in Room C ------ you ensure the room is empty by 4 P.M.

“Please speak up a bit more, Jason. You’re hardly ..........  from the back”, the teacher said.

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The sales director will give a brief talk -----the keynote speaker is introduced.

Something's just ____ up, so I'm afraid I won't be able to make it this afternoon.

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: 

His rude comments made other Facebookers very angry.

The man ................ spoke to John over there is my brother.

They asked me     in Los Angeles then.