Knowing such details about your best friend or loved one (3)_____ also tell you about the type of friend or partner he needs.

Noise effects can be (5)_____ by a number of techniques, for example, increasing the distance or blocking the path between the noise source and the recipient, reducing noise level at the source, and protecting recipients with earplugs or earmuffs

The Olympics are also an opportunity to invest in projects (5)_____ improve the city’s quality of life, such as new transportation systems

CRITICISM
It can take a long time to become successful in your chosen eld, no matter how talented you are. One thing you have to be aware of is that you will face criticism along the way. The world is full of people who would rather say something negative than positive. If you’ve made up your (1)_____ to achieve a certain goal, such as writing a novel, don’t let the negative criticism of others (2)_____ you from reaching your target, and let the constructive criticism have a positive (3)______ on your work. If someone says you’re totally in the lack of talent, ignore them. That’s negative criticism. If, (4)_____ , someone advises you to revise your work and gives you a good reason for doing so, you should consider their
suggestions carefully. There are many lm stars who were once out of work. There are many famous novelists (5)_____ made a complete mess of their rst novel – or who didn’t, but had to keep on approaching hundreds of publishers before they could get it published. Being successful does depend on luck, to a certain extent. But things are more likely to turn out well if you persevere and stay positive.

In addition to the challenge to be excellent, American schools have been facing novel problems. They must (1)________with an influx of immigrant children, many of whom speak little or no English. They must respond to demands that the curriculum reflect the various cultures of all children. Schools must make sure that students develop (2)________skills for the job market, and they must consider the needs of nontraditional students, such as teenage mothers. Schools are addressing these problems in ways that reflect the diversity of the US educational system. They are opening (3)________the traditional European-centered curriculum to embrace material from American, Asian, and other cultures. Schools are also teaching cognitive skills to the nearly 40 percent of American students who do not go on to higher education. In the (4)________of a recent report by the Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, “A strong back, the willingness to work, and a high school diploma were once all that was necessary to (5)________a start in America.”
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Background, in relation to computers, on the screen, the color on which characters are displayed. (1) _______, a white background may be used for black characters. In a windowing environment in which more than one program or document can be available to the user, open but currently inactive (2) _______ are said to be in the background. In the context of operating systems and program execution, background refers to a process, or task, assigned a lower priority in the microprocessor's share of time to tasks other than the task running in the (3) _______. A background process thus often performs (4)_____________ work, such as printing or checking for arriving messages on an electronic mail network, invisibly unless the user requests an update or brings the task to the foreground. (5) _______, only multitasking operating systems are able to support background processing.
Read the reading below carefully, and then complete it with the best option A, B, C or D given below
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A lot of good films, music programs have appeared recently on TV. (4)_______ here again there is a danger.

FIRST STEP BEAMED TO A WAITING WORLD
About six and a half hours after Eagle landed, its hatch (1) _______ and the Apollo 1 commander backed slowly out to its little porch. On the (2) _______ he paused, pulled a lanyard, and thus deployed the MESA, or modularized equipment stowage assembly, just to the left of the ladder. As the MESA lowered into (3) _______ with its load of equipment for lunar prospecting, a seven-pound Westinghouse TV camera mounted atop the load began shooting black-and-white (4) _______. Fuzzy and scored with lines, the pictures nonetheless held earthlings spellbound. No one who sat that July night welded to his TV screen will ever forget the (5) _______ of that ghostly foot groping slowly past the ladder to Eagle's footpad, and then stepping tentatively into the virgin soil. Man had made his first footprint on the moon.

Read the reading below carefully, and then complete it with the best option A, B, C or D given below
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