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_______ we climb, the steeper the mountain became

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____ that I would be late for school, I took a taxi instead of a bus

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He was caught ______________ handed taking money from the till

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Tourism has played a pivotal role in promoting economic development

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How many people are there in .................... family?

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Some of the students were ____ at English, so volunteer teachers had to try very hard

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Opposition parties are threatening to ..... the government

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After his wife died, he began to .......

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In Africa a famous food company tried to sell its baby food by advertising it with the picture of a baby on the label. They did not know that this particular country used labels only to (19)_________ a picture of the food inside. When Pepsico used the slogan "Come alive with Pepsi' in Taiwan, they had no idea that it would be translated into Chinese as 'Pepsi (20) ________ your ancestors back from the dead’. Misunderstandings such as these about language or about culture are sometimes comical but can also cause genuine hurt or anger. Business styles (21) ________ widely in different countries and what is normal in one culture can be completely unacceptable in another. Socialising in different countries can be tricky. In Arabic countries, for example, people do not discuss business (22) _________ meals. Giving gifts is another potential problem: in the UK most people take presents to a dinner party, but in many countries this is not polite because it (23) _________ you think the host is poor

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In the past, people bought goods using (5) _______. They rarely borrowed money from financial institutions and only when they had saved the money did they buy what they wanted. Recently, however, there have been great changes in the way people purchase goods. To begin with, some people pay for things by cheque, (6) ______ others prefer monthly installments rather than paying the whole amount at once. Most consumers, though, prefer to buy things using their credit cards. (7) _______, it is thought that there are benefits to having a credit card. Apart from the fact that credit cards are handy, some stores offer bonus points to people making purchases, while others give discounts on certain products. On the other hand, credit cards must be used wisely because they can prove disastrous. In the long run, consumers find that they can’t (8) _______ without their credit cards and constantly rely on them, as they are “easy money”. As a result, some people lose control of their finances spending more than they should end up not being able to (9) _______. So they end up in debt and have difficulty in paying it back

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They ...... from the national union and set up their own local organization

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It will be particularly annoying for the local people who had to endure deafening music from the nearby bars until the small hours

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She’s your best friend! You should come to her party, ____?

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Mobile phones have largely taken ___________ home phones for most people in recent years

How much rice............... you want? - Two kilos.

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Give me a call when you get ____________ the bus

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Some people are against children ____ to school before they are six

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He bought me dinner to make _____________ being so late the day before

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We started ____________ an opera theater company that toured all over the South

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Last Sunday, when they__________ an exciting football match on TV, the electricity________ out

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The basic fiber-optics system is called a fiberscope, ………… Consists of two bundles of fibers