Each year, people around the world spending billions of dollars buying merchandise on the Internet.

The police set a...................to catch the thieves.

The city was under ____for six months before it finally fell.

When she retires in September 1989, tennis champion Christine Evert was the most famous woman athlete in the United States.

The Maelstrom is a swift  and danger current in the Arctic Ocean.

Fiorello La Guardia made a speech to the United Nations Relief Administration, which he was the director, stating that Europe did not experience prosperity after Word War Two.

The students in the dormitories were forbidden from going out after 11:30 p.m., unless they have special passed.

With animals both human, chewing helps relieve tension.

In order no money would be wasted, we had to account for every penny we spent.

Toxic chemicals from factories are one of the serious factors that leads wildlife to the ____of extinction.

Because oak trees are highly resistant of storm damage, they usually live a long time.

The Wright brothers, owner of a bicycle shop, used the number of bicycle parts to make the original motorized plane.

 I would love to be able to _____ my children in the country. 

Few people realize that the musician of the national anthem of the United States originally belonged to the British drinking song.

Of the four lectures, the second was by far the best, partly because t person who to delivered it had such a dynamic style.

It was Vitus Bering, the Danish sea captain, who discovered Alaska on its voyage to Russia in 1741.

Identify the error in each sentence: 

Ancient people made (A) a clay pottery (B) because they needed (C) it for(D) their survival. 

The modern Indian dictionary is typically a single compact volume published with a modest price.

From the four words or phrases (A,B,C or D), choose the one that best completes the sentence.

The doctor made a mistake with the medicine she prescribed. …….. , she was never questioned about this error.

Choose the best answer:

He is ...............listening to his sister’s advice. 

There has been widespread public opposition against the plan for a new road.