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Our firm offers excellent_______________as a way to retain its valued employees.

She ............... the living room when she heard a strange noise in the kitchen. 

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All employees working in the assembly area will be _____to take a course on machine operation.

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: 

I’d go mad if I had to do a dead-end job like working on a supermarket checkout.

I met a  .............  girl at my friend's birthday party last Sunday.

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
(6)....................

I don’t understand this sentence.What ..........................?

I feel so __________ and sleepy today because I worked late last night. 

He said he..................return later. 

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Dear Ms. Hsu 

We are writing to inform you that your Brisbane Independent Daily Herald subscription  rate is about to change from $18.75 per month to $21.00 per month. We regret any  financial burden this may place on our subscribers, but ------- our rising operating costs,  we find the change unavoidable. 

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It was very_________of him to notice her new haircut, though she didn’t expect that.

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Peerplane, Inc., stated yesterday that its new prototype airplane passed all……..testing.

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The murderer was_______________ to a lifetime imprisonment for his fault. 

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This guest house offers fine accommodations at an affordable______________.

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Where’s your mother? She is busy ......... in the kitchen.

Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds _____.

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Could you ............. me ten pounds until next payday?

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
(3).........................

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You can't make ........... if they don’t want to.

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_______this quarter’s sales are as high as projected, Hoshiro Designs,Inc., anticipates emerging as the leading graphic design companmhy in Japan.

Ms. Walters was…………to make a presentation on how to increase revenue when I entered the room.