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The PTA ________ parents and teachers who support the school by fund raising and other activities

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One of the fundamentals of education, mathematics is taught from the earliest grades in school.

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------- to the fitness center is free for all employees and their family members

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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and the Strauss family all came to work to Vienna, __________ was the music capital of the world for many centuries

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All the members have to collect glass, waste paper and empty cans and send them for _____

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I have already spoken about the ____________ of his speech

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One of the effects of environmental ____________ is the absence of fish in that river

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Is that the old film________we watched 5 months ago?

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She was criticized so much by her employers that she began to feel ______________

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The leadership conference will be held in Lanesville, which is about 50 miles from downtown Seattle and easily accessible ------ car or train

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In spite of the fact that he _________ his cousin, he _________ drinking

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In Mr. Brothet's performance review, the department supervisor wrote that he worked extremely ------- and always finished his assignments on time

Hoa ____ feed the cats because her mother has done it already.

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Often very annoying weeds, ________ and act as hosts to many insect pests

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My mother said that she would rather ____ to Hoi An than Nha Trang

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The cat__________is named Tom.

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When will you send the message? -We ________________ it by Friday

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Let us extend our warmest welcome ------- Mr. Lam Keong Wu, our new vice president of marketing

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The teacher_________ to the class before the students _________ the problems

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
(8).........................

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:

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