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1. I predict I will receive a 17% raise if I move, ______________ if I stay in my current position, it will take me three more years to make that much.

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The holiday insurance that is offered _________

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Among the professional and managerial strata, working hours have increased and record numbers of people are in employment overall. As people work more, their appetite for leisure activities has grown to compensate for the greater stress in life. The past four years alone have seen the leisure and tourism business expand by 35% with a change in emphasis to short weekend breaks in Europe and long-haul short breaks to exotic destinations in place of longer domestic holidays.

Long domestic holidays have taken the place of long-haul short breaks.

4. In contrast, 70% of males were awarded a postgraduate diploma, ___________ was more than twice the number of females.

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Dr Billingham is investigating fossilized tracks, or footprints, using computer simulations to help analyse how now-extinct animals moved. Modern-day trackers who are familiar with the habitats of wild animals can, with ease, tell you what animal made a track, whether it was walking or running, and sometimes even the sex of the animal. However, a fossil track poses a more considerable challenge to interpret in the same way. A crucial consideration is knowing what the environment upon which the animal walked was like millions of years ago when the track was made. Experiments can answer these questions but the number of variables is mind-boggling. Physically recreating each scenario with a box of mud or sediment is extremely time-consuming and difficult to repeat accurately.

An experienced tracker can analyse fossil footprints as easily as those made by live animals.

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Customers who recommend Sunny Days Camping to friends will receive _________

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It is unlikely, at least in Europe, that propaganda will ever be accepted as a neutral concept. The very word is so loaded with sinister connotations that it evokes an immediate and visceral sense of outrage in much of the population. For the use of propaganda reached its apex in the machinery of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is therefore unsurprising that liberal governments and politicians are liable to perform the most extreme acrobatic manouveres in their efforts to avoid the dreaded “p” word being applied to any of their activities. They have developed impressive lexicons of euphemisms and doublespeak to distance themselves from any taint of it, real or imagined.

Politicians in Europe ________________________

8. Which of these words for an expert in their field is the most formal?

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Passenger surname:

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US East Coast display: grains from the south coast are small, light-coloured and _______ in shape.

11. ______________ the monkeys and birds are different species, the monkeys can understand the birds’ warnings.

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If things turn out well for a long time, there is a further concern: that of constantly waiting for something to go wrong. People then find themselves appeasing the gods: not walking on lines on the pavements, performing rituals before public performances, wearing particular clothes and colours so that they can blame the ritual not themselves when things go wrong,

People perform certain rituals to try to avoid failure.

13. "... the nuclear family – that is, _________ consisting of a husband, a wife and children."

14. "The match was _________ live on a leading sports channel." Which of the following words DOES NOT fit in the gap?

15. For _____________ who are not healthy enough to work until 65 , it would be best to retire.

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Distance from airport to St Thomas:

17. Some researchers refuse to believe that the impact of the meteorite _____________ for the end of the dinosaurs.

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Increasingly, buildings such as offices, schools, colleges or hospitals which used to allow free access to employees and other users now do not. This is because they are situated in urban areas suffering from escalating crime, Entry areas are now manned by security staff. Receptionists, whose task it once was to receive visitors and to make them welcome before passing them on to the person they had come to see,are now tasked with barring entry to the unauthorised, the unwanted or the plain unappealing.

Access to many buildings ___________________

19. Which of the following words is the odd one out?

20. It remains _______________ whether society is under threat from the refugee crisis.