When I came to the party, Sally and Tom                    .

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Police are advising ____ away from the building

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Quillet Motors has been working ------ the goal of reducing its factory emissions by 25 percent since last year

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He was exhausted by his work. He threw himself on his bed.

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After the serious wedding photos were finished, everyone struck a silly _________________ for a funny picture

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It’s a beautiful day. Let’s sit in ______ garden.

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The more we spent with the sales team, the more…………we were with their innovative marketing skills.

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The relative size of an insect's wing is much greater than ____.

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The agenda for Thursday's meeting ______ include new product development

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Toronto Web Association members ------- next month at the SES Toronto Conference to discuss online marketing trends

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

He was asked to account for his presence at the scene of crime.

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 I tried to phone the bank, but the telephone operator __________ me __________ to the wrong person

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Our request for permission to travel met with/received a flat/point-blank (= complete) ________________ from the authorities

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When scheduling a meeting, please be ------- of colleagues in other time zones

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The Web site provides a full list of research papers and the ------- authors

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The employees in Human Resources decided to create some brochures explaining company policy all by --------

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John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?”
Laura: “________”

MY BEST FRIEND
I have several good friends but I (1) ________ that my best friend is Ellen. We (2)________ friends with each other since we were very young because she (3)________ next door to me. We have always been in the same class at school, although she has always been much cleverer than me. I don't mind (4)________, because she often helps me with my homework! Anyway, I've always been better at sport than she is. I always (5)________ her at tennis and she doesn't like that. In fact, she hates losing at anything and gets very annoyed if she does. That's the only thing that I don't like about her. Otherwise, she has (6)________ humour and she's always making me laugh. We get on very well together, although occasionally we've had arguments - usually about silly little things. Ellen and her family moved to another district last year but I still see her a lot. We're planning to go on a trip around Europe next summer, I'm really (7)________ to it because I think we'll have a lot of fun and see exciting places. Of course, it's going to be hard -to afford such a wonderful and exciting trip and so we're both going to get jobs and try to (8)________ enough money for it.
(8).........................

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The author's wife was a good editor, _________ being a great writer herself

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Frank easily gets _______ when people don’t understand what he’s trying to say

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In less developed countries,____________slums form both on thee and within the largest cities.