The volume of traffic in many citites in the world today continues to expand. This ________ many problems, including serious air pollution, lengthy delays, and the greater risk of accidents.

The tourist industry is (1) ……. to be the largest industry. Before 1950 one million people travelled abroad each year but by the 1900s the figure (2) ….. to 400 million every year. (3) …… large numbers of tourists, however, are beginning to cause problems. For example, in the Alps the skiers are destroying the mountains they came to enjoy. Even parts of Mount Everest in the Himalayas are reported to be covered (4) ….. old tins, tents, and food that have been (5) ……
But at a time when we have (6) ….. freedom to travel than ever before, more and more people are asking how they can enjoy their holidays (7) ….. causing problems by spoiling the countryside. Now there is a new holiday (8) …… called "Holidays That Don't Cost The Earth". It tells you (9) ….. you can help the tourist industry by asking your travel agent the right questions (10) ……... you go on holiday.
(5)...............

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Timmy ……. the living room while his mother …………. in the kitchen.

He _______on a serious relationship at a very young age; naturally, it ended in tears.

I have never played badminton before.This is the first time I .................to play. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

We guarantee privacy and__________when it comes to the information in your résumé. 

Teaching and medicine are more than…………………., they're professions.

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Minnesota’s thousands of lakes ...... over 4,000 square miles.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Hundreds of species of Hawaiian flowers have become extinct or rare …. land development and the razing of wild goats.

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She has two sons. Both of ....... work hard. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

________ the hypothesis, the results of the study showed that there was no  significant difference in total sleep time between the two groups. 

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Many (A) people used to (B) think learning (C) English is full of the (D) difficulties.

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I don’t like that boy because there is a ...... look on his face.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ...... forever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ...... twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ........ They are being filled with poison, industrial and nuclear (4) ......., chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead. The North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ...... of half the earth's living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ...... on the world's climate and on our agriculture and food supplies, will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ...... - a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ...... to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds, including the tiger, to (9) ........ Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money - and if more governments wake up to what is happening -perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help US to avoid the disaster that (10) ...... the natural world, and all of US will be with it.
(10)..................

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each of pair of sentences in the following questions

 The company director decided to raise the workers’ wages. He did not want them to leave.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Dresch Power Tools has stopped production of its battery-operated drill ………..poor sales.

It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says 'please' and 'thank you' in the right places is (1) ______ miracle of science , but recognizing the words that make up norm al, continuous human speech is another (2)________
Not until now have computer been programmed to (3) _____to a range of spoken commands. Until recently it was thought that computers would have tobe programmed to the accent and speech hahits of each user, and only then would be able to respond (4) _____to their master's or mistress's voice. Now rapid progress is being made (5) ______ systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker.
The IBM Tangora system, under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (6) ______ a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can make informed guesses as to (7) ______ is a likely sentence. That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules, but also with an analysis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.
On the (8) _______of this information, the machine can calculate the probability of one particular word following another. Statistical probability is necessary for computers to interpret not only speech but also (9) ______ data.
Security systems can distinguish between faces they have been taught to recognize, but never has a computer been able to match a human's ability to make sense of a three-dimensional scene (10) ______ identifying all objects in it.
(3)......................

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Alpha Clothing Store is a family-owned business offering high-quality men’s chothing at ……… prices.

This new center is an interesting ...................

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: 

It’s discourteous to ask Americans questions about their age, marriage or income.

You must be freezing - why don’t you sit by the fire and_____ up a bit.