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Arguing with Rick is futile; he’ll never accept that he was wrong

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The challenges Ann encountered while assisting the medical charity in Africa brought _______ the best in her personality

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Vaccinating 80% of the population could _______ the progression of the contagious disease

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Wow, that lullaby just carries me ......... to my childhood

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In the past, people bought goods using (5) _______. They rarely borrowed money from financial institutions and only when they had saved the money did they buy what they wanted. Recently, however, there have been great changes in the way people purchase goods. To begin with, some people pay for things by cheque, (6) ______ others prefer monthly installments rather than paying the whole amount at once. Most consumers, though, prefer to buy things using their credit cards. (7) _______, it is thought that there are benefits to having a credit card. Apart from the fact that credit cards are handy, some stores offer bonus points to people making purchases, while others give discounts on certain products. On the other hand, credit cards must be used wisely because they can prove disastrous. In the long run, consumers find that they can’t (8) _______ without their credit cards and constantly rely on them, as they are “easy money”. As a result, some people lose control of their finances spending more than they should end up not being able to (9) _______. So they end up in debt and have difficulty in paying it back

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_______ he is more than 65 years old now, he is still quite active

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If the subject of divorce .......... , try to change the subject

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At the moment, students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are required to pay for both their tuition fees and ____ expenses

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How many students ________ English?

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We look __________ the neighbors' cat while they're away

Choose the answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentence. _______ she _____ French?

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The government has been offering subsidies to put ___________ the price of grain for farmers, millers, and bakers

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You're red in the face. ____

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentences.

A: “How are you?”

B:“………………”

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_______ is Mr Jones; he can tell you all about the issue

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Seeking a new life and hoping a significant (28) _____ in their standard of living, foreign workers began flocking into Western Europe during the 1950s. In Britain, some of the first immigrants arriving from the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent were welcomed by brass bands, but the dream of a new life soon (29) _____ sour for many. Attracted by the promise to earn good money and learn new skills, the reality they found was often one of low wages and, in many case, unemployment. Some did not adapt (30) _____ to life in a country of cold weather and discrimination. The (31) _____ of West Indian immigrants moved into the inner cities, areas that were already fraught with social tensions caused by poverty and poor housing. There were cases of open hostility towards the newcomers; riots (32) _____ out in Notting Hill, West London in 1958, when gangs of white youths began taunting immigrants. Yet despite the numerous difficulties they encountered, many foreign workers did manage to adjust to their new conditions, settling in their new adopted country and prospering. Their contribution had the effect of not only speeding up the pace of economic change in the postwar period, but also transforming Western Europe into a multiracial society

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Where is the ________bookshop, please?

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The United States and China have (16)_______ a deal that allows the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE to stay in business in exchange for paying an additional $1 billion in fines and agreeing to let US regulators monitor its operations. The fine comes (17)_______ Donald Trump stepped in to save the company after US regulators barred it from doing business in the US, an effective death blow for the company. In addition to the fine, a compliance team chosen by the US will be embedded at ZTE and the Chinese company must change its board and executive team. “ZTE is essentially on (18)_______,” said Amanda DeBusk, chair of the international trade and government regulation practice at Dechert LLP and a former commerce official. “It’s unprecedented to have US agents as monitors ... It’s (19)_______ a good precedent for this situation. ZTE is a repeat offender.” The news did little to appease critics. Senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence, said: “It is the unanimous conclusion of our nation’s intelligence community that ZTE poses a significant threat to our national security. These concerns aren’t new; back in 2012, the House permanent select committee on intelligence released a report (20)_______ the serious counterintelligence concerns associated with ZTE equipment

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I’m afraid cycling is off the menu until the weather improves

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Many groups worldwide are trying to develop vaccines that protect against a wide range of coronaviruses and prevent (26) _______ pandemic. These efforts have now been boosted by the discovery that some healthcare workers had pre-existing immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the first wave of the pandemic. During the first half of 2020, around 700 healthcare workers in the UK were tested weekly as part of a crowdfunded study called Covid Sortium. Most of these people, who wore protective equipment, never tested positive for covid-19 in PCR tests or developed covid-19 antibodies – proteins that (27) _______ to the outside of viruses, preventing cells from being infected. (28)_______ , when Leo Swadling and Mala Maini at University College London and their colleagues looked more closely, they found some of those (29) _______ tested negative had a protein in their blood that is linked to covid-19 infection, as well as T cell responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. T cells are (30) _______ of the immune system

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The students are ____ about recording audiobooks as Christmas presents for children with visual impairments