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2. We need to take steps to counter the _____ decline in our export market. Xtz-\v#0o'
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4. We are going to____ what were learned so for by doing some revision exercise today. Y={&5Mir
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5. Kerin made one last____attempt to persuade Sandra to go with him and then left ] sz3 ]"2
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6. The school agree to ___ their decision until they had spoken to his parents. l no vykR
A convert B retain C deter D expel >@WX>0`ht
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8. The___between the two sets of figures suggests that someone had been stealing money from the bank ;!o]wHmA
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9. The idea that a good night sleep will cure everything is a complete _____ nf 1#tlIJd
A defect B fallacy C fraud D abuse SVjl~U-^
10 Before a bill can become law it has to have the full ____ of both Houses of Parliament. y%sro
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11 The image is ____ by a series of lenses within the telescope TI9UXa:V\
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12 Strangely enough the most obvious explanation did not ___ Juckie until the next day P5lqSA{6
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13 The government wants a 3% inflation rate,but is this a ___ objective? :16P.z1L
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14 She has still ___ by what happened in Bancelona,although she had left 20years earlier >7!6nF3x,
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