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The manager regrets _____ that a lot of people will be made redundant by the company next year.

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He dropped out __________ school a month before graduation

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Never ________ me again

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We ___________ some improvements to the house before selling it

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Don Strange, who works as a vet in northern England, leads a busy life. As well as having to treat pets which are unwell, he often visits farms where problems of (33) _____ kinds await him. He has lost (34) _____ of the number of times he has been called out at midnight to give advice to a farmer with sick sheep or cows. Recently, a television company chose Don as the subject of a documentary program it was making about the life of a country vet. The program showed the difficult situations Don faces every day such as helping a cow to give birth or winning the trust of an aggressive dog (35) _____ needs an injection. Not all of Don’s patients are domestic animals, (36) _____, and in the program people saw him helping an owl which had a damaged wing. It also showed Don holding a meeting with villagers concerned about the damage a new road might do to their (37) _____ environment

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Nam’s parents are very______ with his success

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Vietnam, along with China, stands out as a rare ____ story among transition economies

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Many of the companies that they had invested in fell ..........

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I need some time to mull __________ the options before I pick one

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________ the medicine than she began to feel better

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The President .......... for a four-year term of office

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Based on the information we ------- from distributors and customers, we are planning to relocate our headquarters

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Her excuse for not doing her homework was _______, so the teacher didn’t punish her

Nam ______ football now. He’s tired.

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I was supposed to go out tonight, but Marisa is sick and called __________ our dinner

Choose the letter A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. Ten minus six equals……...

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Matthew has put in a transfer request in order to stay ------- to his parents

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Advances in mobile technology and social networking websites mean we spend more time online than ever before. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world by population (The Economist, 2010). It is (25) _____ not surprising that so many psychologists, sociologists, and others are eager to give their thoughts on how this is impacting negatively on our society. The biggest criticism levelled at social networking is that young people are losing their offline friends to online friends (26) _____ are unable to provide the same deep connection and emotional support. However, a lot of research shows these criticisms are generally (27) _____. Allen et al. (2010) discovered that it is socially adjusted adolescents who are more likely to have a networking profile than those who are not. One study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project (2009) found that people are not (28) _____ offline friends with online companions but are using them to support their offline relationships. The study also found that social networks allow us to have discussions with a much more diverse set of people than in the real world, so we share knowledge with people from a wide (29) _____ of backgrounds

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Antonio Gaudi, architect of Barcelona's Holy Family Church, died before seeing ............... the structure

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Can we stop for a minute? I need to _____________ my breath, I can't run as fast as you guys!

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Around 200 million people are employed in tourism worldwide, making it the largest industry in the modern global economy. It is estimated that three-quarters of a billion people go on holiday each year, and industry planners expect this figure to double (43) _____ 2020. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are less developed countries, where it is often their main source of income. (44) _____, along with the economic benefits, this mass movement of people has resulted in environment. People often forget the damage caused by carbon emissions from aircraft, (45) _____ contribute directly to global warming. Deforestation has cleared land in order to build hotels, airports and roads, and this has destroyed wildlife. In some areas, water shortages are now common because of the need to fill swimming pools and water golf courses for tourists. By pushing up prices for goods and services, tourism can also be harmful to people living in tourist destinations. In response to these (46) _____, some travel operators now offer environment-friendly holidays. Many of these aim to reduce the negative effects of tourism by (47) _____ only hotels that have invested equipment to recycle waste and use energy and water efficiently. Increasingly, tourists are also being reminded to show respect for customs of the people whose countries they are going to visit, and to support local businesses, such as restaurants and shops which depend on tourism for their main income