Rewrite: No one without a good knowledge of English has much chance of succeeding in international finance

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The panda’s natural________is the bamboo forest

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Your behavior and comments in the party last night were inappropriate and fell below the ________standards.

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With traffic ________ alongthe main roads, residents seeking to emerge from the side roads in which they live find it virtually impossible to do so.

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The president was a lame duck during the end of his second term because he pushed his country into a financial crisis

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Not until 1946 did the world chess governing body, FIDE, assert its control over international championship play.

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There was a long period without rain in the countryside last year so the harvest was poor.

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Our project was successful ________ its practicality

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I was promised a good job from January this year, but it’s April now and I’m afraid that they are just _____ me along

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The more you talk about the situation, _______________

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It’ll take you over an hour to get to the city centre in the ____ hour.

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:

Sorry, I can’t come to your party. I am snowed under with work at the moment.

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At this time tomorrow morning, he will be driving to the airport to ___________ Susan

What would Lan do if she ___________ the Miss World?

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_________ you were driving thirty miles per hour above the speed limit at the time of the accident will count against you

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People believe he’s guilty of the robbery, but it looks like he’s going to ____________ it

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I only realized what I had missed when they told me about it later

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Mary met her second husband not long after her first marriage _________________

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She completed her formal________in 1982.

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Are you willing to ________________ Robert’s job when he leaves?

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It is not always easy to make a good ________ at the last minute