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1. Until he took off his glasses __________. bs:QG1*.
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3. A good reader can tell the difference between words that sound __________, and know ____________ to use them. 1g81S_T
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4. 90 percent of all English writing ____________ 1,000 basic words. X?kPi&ru
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6. Don’t ever drive past a hitchhiker, ____________? ?d#Lr*m
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9. Leonardo da Vinci ____________ caged birds in order to have the pleasure of setting them free. v'K
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10. In China, customers pay far less for a DVD than ____________ countries. Wf_CR(
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13. If only I ____________ play the guitar as well as you! &3jBE --
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14. It’s high time we ____________ cutting down the rainforests. F\zkyk 4
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15. The student said there were a few points in the essay he ____________ impossible to comprehend. #Tup]czO
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16. Loudspeakers were fixed in the hall so that everyone____________ an opportunity to hear the speech. - 08&&H
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18. Susan is very hardworking, but her pay is not____________ for her work. EC^Ev|PB\u
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21. My daughter has walked eight miles today. We never guessed that she could walk____________far. -&q Ro0^3
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22. The statistics ____________ that living standards in the area have improved drastically in recent times. XD_P\z
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25. There used to be a petrol station near the park, ____________? SX_kr^#
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26. It is an offence to show ____________ against people of different races. Ev$-P
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29. The economic recession has meant that job____________ is a rare thing. 6]@|7|N>X
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37. Share prices on the Stock Exchange plunged sharply in the morning but ____________slightly in the afternoon. sNk>0 X[
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40. I hear that it is estimated that the number of people ____________ less than one dollar a day has ____________ one billion worldwide. _Ox nHf:|
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For a wrong word, underline it and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. DwrCysIK
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