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The Hawaiian alphabet, introduced by missionaries in the 1820s, ____ and only seven consonants

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Her final paper needs a few minor________.

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Let’s be quite frank about it: nothing _________ about the Board was particularly interesting.

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According to a study, women blink almost twice _______________ men

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The new student is a real snob: he refuses to mix with _________ in his class.

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My mother puts a (n) _______________ seat in my house to relax at the weekend.

Jenny and her teacher are meeting at the bus stop.

Jenny: "Good afternoon, Miss. How are you?" Teacher: " ...................... And you?"

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______popular expressions in our language have interesting background

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Because the performance day is drawing near, they are now rehearsing _________ other day, instead of once a week.

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:

Charles W.Eliot, the president of Harvard in 1869, initiated a system under which most required courses were dropped in favor of elective courses.

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The meeting appeared to be going well until Sarah ______________ the issue of holiday pay

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Lunch was in a typical Cuban restaurant and consisted of fruit, rice and chicken.

I was at the club yesterday, but I ________ you.

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There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned.

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A scientific principle has a life expectancy of approximately a decade before it drastically revised or replaced by newer information.

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Mr. Pike held his wife's hands and talked urgently to her in a low voice, but there didn't seem to be any response.

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My son is excited ______ going to the zoo with his classmates

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Who did you invite to dinner? – No one …….. than Frank and his family

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 15 to 19
About 50 or so kinds modern plastic are made from oil, gas, or coal-non-renewable natural resources.  We (15)___ well over three million tons of the stuff in Japan each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away .A high proportion of our animal consumption is in the (16)____ of packaging and this constitutes about seven percent by weight, of our domestic(17) ____ . Almost all of it can be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling industry is growing fast. The plastics themselves are extremely energy - rich – they have a higher calorific(18) ____ than coal and one methodn of “recovery” strongly (19)____ by plastic manufacturers if the conversion of waste plastic into a fuel
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He made (A) it clear (B) once more that the missed (C) books were to be received (D) and brought to him.

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Data generated by the Johns Hopkins researchers revealed that, once converted into full-time-equivalent workers, volunteers account on average ____ 45 per cent of the nonprofit workforce in the 36 countries.