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1/15Question 1
Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
(0) is an example – SOMETIME
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The Common Cold
It is likely that everybody in the world has at (0) sometime suffered from the common cold. We are all, unfortunately, familiar (1) coughing, sneezing, headache, sore throat and runny nose that tell us we have once again (2) with one of the most common of human diseases.
(3) average, adults have a cold two to four times a year, while over the (4) period children catch between three and eight colds. In this country alone, almost a million people have a cold on any one day. (5) , with about 30% of the population in employment, nearly 300,000 of them are off work with colds every day.
With (6) a huge number of working hours lost to the economy every day, quite (7) from the human suffering that colds cause, it is perhaps surprising that the medical science of the 21st century is still incapable (8) finding a cure. The wide range of medicines used to treat the common cold only manage to make us feel less awful, (9) to reduce the length of the illness.
One possible explanation for this is that colds eventually cure themselves; (10) is to say, the body’s natural defenses can deal with the disease. (11) reason is the fact that they can be caused by any one of 200 types of virus, the tiny living things responsible for infectious diseases. This makes it as difficult to cure the common cold (12) it would be to discover a single cure for hundreds of other diseases.
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2/15Question 2
What time does the restaurant open? ________.
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3/15Question 3
I’m going to Tokyo ________ my Japanese friend.
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4/15Question 4
What ________ for breakfast this morning?
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5/15Question 5
When I saw him, he ________ dark blue jeans.
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6/15Question 6
I ________ Alice since we were at university.
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7/15Question 7
________ over the weekend?
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8/15Question 8
________ me to get you some water?
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9/15Question 9
I can’t help ________ angry when you behave this way!
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10/15Question 10
My father asked me ________ .
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11/15Question 11
It’s getting late. It’s time we ________ .
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12/15Question 12
I was completely taken ________ by that article. I didn’t realize it was all a joke!
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13/15Question 13
You mentioned earlier that people aren’t willing to recycle, but I beg to ________ .
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14/15Question 14
These bank notes are no longer in use, I’m afraid they’re ________ .
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15/15Question 15
They ________ the new road this week, but there have been some problems and it still isn’t finished.