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She had no qualms about lying to the police.
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Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth.
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"I was not dreaming," I said, with some warmth, for her brazen coolness provoked me.
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Without demur, then, she turned and accompanied the rascally Malay toward the harbour.
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slaughter
draught
naughty
plaudit
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but
bury
nut
young
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A paragraph is a portion of a text consists of one or more sentences related to the same idea.
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Students should be encouraged to discuss critically about the information that they are given.
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Neither of the scout leaders know how to trap wild animals or how to prepare them for mounting.
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In addition to providing energy, fats have several other functions in the body. The fat-soluble vitamins, A, D, E, and K, are dissolved in fats, as their name implies. Good sources of these vitamins have the high oil or fat content, and the vitamins are stored in the body’s fatty tissues. In the diet, fats cause food to remain longer in the stomach, thus increasing the feeling of fullness for some time after a meal is eaten. Fats add variety, taste, and texture to foods, which accounts for the popularity of fried foods. Fatty deposits in the body have an insulating and protective value. The curves of the human female body are due mostly to strategically located fat deposits.
Whether a certain amount of fat in the diet is essential to human health is not definitely known. When rats are fed a fat-free diet, their growth eventually ceases, their skin becomes inflamed and scaly, and their reproductive systems are damaged. Two fatty acids, linoleic and arachidonic acids, prevent these abnormalities and hence are called essential fatty acids. They also are required by a number of other animals but their roles in human beings are debatable. Most nutritionists consider linoleic fatty acid an essential nutrient for humans.
The phrase “stored in” is closest in meaning to __________.
The author states that fats serve all the following body function EXCEPT to ________.
Linoleic fatty acid is mentioned in the passage as ______.
The phrase “these abnormalities” refers to ________.
That humans should all have some fat in our diet is _____.
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An air pollutant is defined as a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air pollution requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen or smelled - a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has developed and knowledge of the
health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has lengthened. In the future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions.
Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentration of these pollutants was altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycles. These serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On a global basis, nature's output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities.
However, human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city. In such a region, the human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious chemicals in the air. The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a substance to be a pollutant; in fact, the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon monoxide, however, has a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about 15 ppm.
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _____.
According to the passage, human-generated air pollution in localized regions _____.
The word “localized” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
According to the passage, the numerical value of the concentration level of a substance is only useful if ____.
The woman ______ someone had stolen her purse, but although they searched everyone in the shop, it wasn't found.
As I was ______ of the change in the program, I arrived half an hour late for the rehearsal.
The Best Invention ______ this year was given to Jason Meyers.
On Christmas Eve, the _____ family gathers for dinner, usually at my grandmother's house.
When the first Chinese restaurants opened in Greece, it was very difficult to get fresh ______ of Chinese vegetables.
I find mending old socks incredibly ______ , that's why I always ask my mother to do it for me.
Megan solved her computer problem quite ______ as she happened to mention it to a friend who had had the same problem and told her what to do.
Bill Gates is probably the best known and most successful ______ in computer software.
My mother often ______ our mistakes, whereas my father is very strict and punishes us for even the slightest one.
When I joined the army, I found it difficult to ______ out orders from my superiors, but I soon got used to it.
After nine months without any rain, the country was facing one of the worst _____ in the last fifty years.
What I like about this restaurant is that there is ______ parking space right outside it.
- “Thanks for the lovely evening.”
- “_____.”
– “What do you usually do on your day off?”
– “_____.”
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I had never seen her before. However, I recognized her from a photograph.
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The human brain is ten times the size of a baboon’s. It weighs about 1,400 grams.
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Tom has the ability to be a professional musician, but he’s too lazy to practice.
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David broke his leg and couldn’t play in the final.
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My father couldn’t stand Tom’s behavior.
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Cultures vary from country to country.
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From the seeds themselves to the machinery, fertilizers, and pesticides - The Green Revolution regimen depend heavily on technology. One (A)_____, however, depends much more on technology - organic farming. Many organic farmers use machinery, but (B)_____ chemical fertilizers or pesticides. (C)_____ chemical soil enrichers, they use animal manure and plant parts not used as food - natural, organic fertilizers that are clearly a renewable (D)_____. Organic farmers also use alternatives for pesticides; for example, they may rely (E)_____ natural predators of certain insect pests. Then, the need arises, they can buy the eggs and larvae of these natural predators and introduce them into their crop fields.
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