Organizers of the Kent City Singing Competition are aggressively promoting their event in an effort to ................ as many contestants as possible.

Emily Watson will be .................. proposals submitted by the finance team before approving the final budget.

The robbers forced the bank manager______ the safe. 

Although Edgar Allan Poe is recognized as the originator of the mystery story genre and as a master of the short story, literary critics and the general public have debated the extent of both his genius and his madness since his death in 1849. Poe rose from destitute beginnings as an orphan to a childhood of relative comfort when a wealthy businessman took him in. As a young man, however, he descended through poverty and mental illness to an early death at the age of forty. In his short career, he produced dozens of poems, stories, and critical essays that reflect his brilliant creative intellect.

At twenty, Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his impoverished aunt and her daughter, where he eventually married his fourteen-year-old cousin, Virginia. Poe was obviously devoted to his young wife, and idealized images of her appear in many of his female characters. It is difficult to suppose, however, that they had a close relationship, since she was many years younger than he was and chronically ill with tuberculosis. Although Poe wrote for various newspapers and magazines during this time, making great strides in literary criticism and developing his short-story style, he achieved no monetary success.

His sensitive personality and a hereditary tendency to neurosis contributed to a tragic mental decline; however, this only seems to have reinforced the brilliant imagery and fascinating morbidity that he achieved in his tales. Many critics speculate that Poe also suffered from alcoholism and opium addiction. The fantastical quality of his work earned him a devoted posthumous following in France, but he was generally disparaged by his American contemporaries.

Just after Poe’s death, his reputation as a writer was better —–.

By the time a machine is successfully reproduced and diffused throughout an industry, it may .............. be outdated.

Choose the correct answer in each sentence.

The staff in charge of writing press releases should get all facts -------- thoroughly before sending an announcement to the media.

In some parts of the world, the indigenous population has been ______ completely .

If you want a job, you have to ____ for one.

We just didn’t allow them ______ the military zone. A. have been entering B. to enter C. enter D. enter 

__________, 70 percent alcohol is more effective than 100 percent alcohol.

The plants want ________daily. 

I prepared ______ on holiday. 

The choir stood in four rows according to their ______ heights.

Choose the correct answer in each sentence.

Ms. Brendon received a  ______________  to see a skilled accountant specializing in tax preparation from her coworker.

Funded by Hurricane Katrina money, the research ................. houses one million dollars worthy of lab equipment.

Choose the underlined part that needs correction in the following question

Two friends should be loyal at each other.

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 the following question.

One by one the old building in the city has been constructed and replaced with new tower blocks.

All of ( all of đi với danh từ số nhiều) our cleaning professionals have undergone extensive ................ and are fully insured.

She regretted to tell him that______.

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The speaker at the Westicon Literature Seminar told an  ____________  story that had the entire audience laughing in enjoyment.

Choose the correct answer in each sentence.

By adding extra flights between Dubai and Istanbul, Euroblue Airlines will increase its  ________  for this route by more than 50 percent.