Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST meaning to the underlined part.

Passengers complained about the lack of information when flights were cancelled.

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The flowering pebble is a plant that looks like a stone and grows in arid areas.

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In some countries, many old-aged parents like to live in a nursing home. They want to _____ independent lives.

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Deborah is going to take extra lessons to ______ what she missed while she was away

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Luckily, my dad________smoking a few years ago.

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I figure that you’re the person telling the secret, _______?

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Because of cutbacks in council spending, plans for the new swimming pool had to be _____

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She often helps her mother________the washing-up

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We can, if you agree, watch the sunset _________ time, when Jane and Mary are free, too.

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The incredible thing about telephone __________ across the continents, but that you can recognize the other person‟s voice

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He need do it himself, ________?

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My husband always makes children hit the ______ before 9pm.

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We should (A) also take into account (B) a fact (C) that unemployment (D) causes poverty. 

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When he walked pass the house, he saw an ambulance ___________ sharply behind a police car

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In a contractual marriage, love is supposed to _________ marriage.

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____ ASEAN is becoming more integrated, investors should be aware of local preferences and cultural sensitivities

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The more you talk about the situation, _______________

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Doctors and nurses of this hospital have worked round the clock to help those injured in the recent earthquake.

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We’ve run into ________ with our new project

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If you think _______ the box, yourthoughts are not limited or controlled by rules or tradition, and you have ideas that are creative and unusual

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Because we live within easy _____ of the city centre, we don’t have to travel to school by bus.