Father   ..........  his pipe while mother  ............   a magazine.

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The football match had to be called______because of the weather.

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...................that there are no wild snakes in Ireland?

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Julia sings _____  than Susan does.

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Do you still have a headache? - No, it _____ I am all right now.

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Shopping used to be my favourite activity. It started when I was a teenager and I worked in a clothes shop. At that time I had a staff discount in the shop and I used to spend all my wages buying clothes. When I got a job in an office I carried on spending all my spare money buying clothes – even after I had got married, bought a house and had children!

I used to go shopping every weekend and I probably spent about £500 a month buying clothes. It wasn’t something I only did when I wasn’t very happy, I always went shopping however I felt. Sometimes I’d look for ages to find what I wanted. Other times, I’d just buy the first thing I saw.

Most of the things I didn’t need. One day I bought three pairs of boots, even though I already had another ten pairs at home. I never even took the most expensive pair out of the box!

I realised I had a problem when one day my five-year-old daughter looked into my wardrobe and asked me why I had so many handbags. I counted them. I had seventy-five handbags and they must have cost me thousands of pounds. I couldn’t believe what I’d done!

First of all, I threw away my credit card. Then I gave away all the clothes that I’d never worn. After that I made arrangements every Saturday to visit friends or go on a day trip, so I wouldn’t be able to go shopping. Now I’m happy because I’m not a shopaholic any more.
1.After the writer had got married, ...............

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If one (A) does not have respect for himself (B), he cannot expect the others (C) to respect (D) him.

I have been trying to ring him up all day and I could not _____ through.

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When learning English, you should have a dictionary to _______the new words.

The performance  .......   at 7 o'clock and  ........   for 3 hours. We all   ........  it very much.

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Joey promised he’d phone today, but he’s let me_________

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Hardly he had (A) entered the office when (B) he realized that he had (C) forgotten (D) his wallet.

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Some people say that Sue is unfriendly, but she’s always very nice _______ me.

A supermarket is _______a shopping centre.

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He _________ that there are only four weeks to the end of term.

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My uncle _______ until he was fifty.

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His reply was so _________ that I didn’t know how to interpret it.

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I’m really sleepy today. I wish I_________ up late last night.

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Many Vietnamese women today don’t often wear ao dai at work because it is _________ . (convenience)

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We find her story hardly _________ . (believe)

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There’s nobody at home. They _____ out.