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Only their own mother can tell Simon and Mike apart.
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Much as George loved travelling in Asia, he decided not to go to Iraq because of his fears of terrorism.
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It was wrong of you not to ask your parents’ permission before deciding to quit your job.
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The teacher should have reminded us of the deadline.
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"You should have finished the report by now," the boss said to his secretary.
The government has made a big effort to tackle the two most important _____ issues of our country.
You'll have to draw the graph _____ than that.
They have signed an agreement to protect the forests _____ all over the world.
"Professor, there is _____ Jim Taylor waiting for you in the hall." he said.
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There is few evidence that the children in language classrooms learn foreign languages any better than adults in similar classroom situation.
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China, the fourth largest and the most populated country in the world, is on its way to become the most domineering nation in the planet today.
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According to the latest news from the earthquake site, two-thirds of the city have been destroyed.
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It is necessary and required that dental technicians and others who work with X-rays limit their exposure to these highly penetrating rays.
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The person with who Mr. Fletcher shared the flat had not paid his rent.
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A leading question among anthropologists is: what exactly led to the development of human cities? Basically, modern humans have existed on earth for over 100,000 years. Yet it is only in the last 8,000 years that they have begun to gather in significant numbers and form cities. Prior to that period, humans existed in small family or tribal groups, generally consisting of fewer than 100 individuals. What, then, led humans to make the dramatic shift from living in small groups to living in large, organized cities? It seems that the development of cities required a particular set of circumstances.
First, it required a minimum population density. For much of their early history, humans existed only in small numbers. This is due to the fact that early humans relied on hunting and gathering wild foods for their survival. Even the most fertile land would only support a relatively small number of predators, so it was not until humans began to practice agriculture that they were able to gather in large enough numbers to form cities.
Furthermore, the development of a city could only be possible if a large number of people shared a common language, culture, and religion. Without such unifying factors, a cooperative, peaceful existence among large numbers of people would have been impossible.
Finally, it seems that early humans needed to be faced with a large problem, which one small group of individuals could not solve on its own. Only when large-scale cooperation was needed to overcome a problem would humans come together to form cities.
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The word "they" in paragraph 2 refers to _____.