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_____________ the current state of the economy, it is easy to understand why so many consumers are retaining their cars longer.

There was _______ piano in the corner of the room. 

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Qualifications and experience / two elements / help us / get good jobs easily.

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In order to  ________  satisfactory levels of productivity in the factory, the floor manager regularly consuits with workers about mechanical problems.

Music, artful arrangement of sounds _______ time.

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Whole Foods no longer allows customers to use more than  ____________  coupon at a time.

United Parcel Service (UPS) believes that its employees should give the firm a fair day’s work for a fair’s day pay. The package delivery firm seems willing to give more than a fair’s day pay. But in (35) ____, UPS expects maximum output from its employees. Since 1920s, the firm’s industrial engineers have been studying every detail of every task (36) ____ by most UPS employees. From their studies have come time and motion standards that (37) ____ how those tasks are performed and how long they should take. Drivers, for example, are expected to walk to a customer’s door at a speed of exactly three feet per second. They are told to knock as soon as they get there, rather than (38) ____ time looking for a doorbell. Work engineers are (39) ____ riding with drivers, timing everything from stops at traffic lights, to wait at customers’ doorway, to stairway climbs, to coffee break. And they are not (40) ____ to pointing out the occasional inefficiency. Additionally, supervisors ride with the least good drivers, noting how they work and constantly (41) ____ them until their work is up to standard. The (42) ____of all this work engineering is efficiency, and UPS has been called one of the most efficient companies anywhere. It's also a highly profitable company. Most drivers take the regimentation in stride: many show (43) ____ in meeting the UPS standards each day. Others, however, feel that they are constantly being pushed, that it is impossible for them to (44) ____ at work. UPS officials claim that the standards provide accountability. And, they say, employees who work according to UPS standards should feel less tired at the end of the day.
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My father is interested ................. playing chess with his friends.

In 2006, the news agency Reuters withdrew from sale 920 pictures taken by a photographer because two images taken in Lebanon were .................. to have been digitally manipulated.

Today, Canada is made  _______ of ten provinces and three northern territories.

 ______ I was working in the garden, John was repairing the washing machine.

The______polluted atmosphere in some industrial regions is called "smog"

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The environmental economist  ____________  the average value of production per employee by taking the revenue minus the costs of a company and dividing that number by the number of employees at a company.

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Due to his decades of experience, Mr.Finley was responsible for the training of the  _______________  for the new gym.

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Market research informs you of what your competition is doing and   _________ it allows you to plan your strategy.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

Suppose you haven't found your USB, what would you do?

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She is always diplomatic when she deals with angry students.

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I clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.

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Thanks to his experience, Mr. Warren is--------------- capable of completing the job on his own.

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Poet Yoshino Nagao will read from her latest ------ collection at Argyle Library on Friday.

People often use the natural world as inspiration to design and invent new ______ .