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I flew for the first time last year _______ I went to Brazil.

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Mr Lane urged any parents who have concerns about the disease to seek medical help at once.

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The .............. of days in a week is seven.

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It was relatively easy for him to learn baseball because he had been a cricket player.

Make sure you ............ the electricity before you ...............mending this light switch. 

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The next stage in the development of television is ...............TV.

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The career-development seminar are open to both part-time____________full-time employees.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ...... forever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ...... twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ........ They are being filled with poison, industrial and nuclear (4) ......., chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead. The North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ...... of half the earth's living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ...... on the world's climate and on our agriculture and food supplies, will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ...... - a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ...... to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds, including the tiger, to (9) ........ Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money - and if more governments wake up to what is happening -perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help US to avoid the disaster that (10) ...... the natural world, and all of US will be with it.
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My son has a big_________, he’s always telling stories about things which didn’t happen!

They offer shade and shelter, which in _______ reduces the amount of energy needed to heat and cool nearby buildings; at the same time, they also remove other impurities from the air we breathe.

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Mahayana Buddhism is the main religion in China, Japan, Korea, and much of Vietnam.

The train ...............half an hour ago. 

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The company cafeteria menu has been improved and ________ features a  greater selection of healthy soups and salads. 

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According to the catalog description, the Stenko lawn mower comes equipped_______a removeable grass catcher.

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Naomi Takeda was not able to attend the meeting last Tuesday, but Claire Marsters gave her a__________of the discussion.

Among ASEAN's _______ greatest challenges are the integration of market diversity and the transitional economies of its member countries

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.
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Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life, someone you have grown up with and been through lots of _____ and downs with.

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Sleeping-car passengers will be provided__________the bedding they need for the journey.

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_________her experience in sales, Ms Woo has a background in public relations.