It’s almost impossible for us to get them to agree on anything.

In some countries, employers have no legitimate rights to directly dismiss their employees.

Not only the students but also the teacher feel that the school should offer computer classes.

“Why were you absent from the class yesterday?” The teacher said to Andrew.

My friend decided to change his life by moving abroadand set up his new company.

Mary has applied for a lot of jobs recently, which suggests ______________her present job.

My brother is a very industrious student who spent the past few months doing research ________ the library.

The word “mature” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____________.

Look out! The frightening horse may injure you, so you’d better not play near it.

You are very unhappy with the service, _________?

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

There have never been so (29)___________ people living in cities in quake zones because the worse the damage can be from a big quake, bringing fires, tsunamis, and the loss of life, property, and maybe an entire city. We understand how earthquakes happen but not exactly where or when they will occur. Until recently, quakes seemed to occur at random. In Japan, government research is now showing that quakes can be predicted. At the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Koshun Yamaoka says earthquakes do follow a (30)__________ —pressure builds in a zone and must be released. But a colleague, Naoyuki Kato, adds that laboratory experiments indicate that a fault slips a little before it breaks. If this is true, predictions can be made based on the detection of slips.

Research in the U.S. may support Kato’s theory. In Parkfield, California earthquakes occur about every 22 years on the San Andreas Fault. In the 1980s, scientists drilled into the fault and set up equipment to record activity to look for warning signs. (31)________ an earthquake hit again, it was years of schedule. At first the event seemed random but scientists drilled deeper. By 2005 they reached the bottom of the fault, two miles down, and found something. Data from two quakes reported in 2008 show there were two “slips’—places (32)_______ the plates widened—before the fault line broke and the quakes occurred.

We are learning more about these destructive events every day. In the future we may be able to track earthquakes and design an early-warning system. So if the next great earthquake does (33)_______ in Tokai, about 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, as some scientists think, the citizens of Tokai may have advance warning.

- “What a gorgeous make-up style you have got, Jane!”

- “_____________________.”

According to paragraph 2, how many Americans in suburban and rural areas wouldn’t have enough belief in their neighbors to have a key to their home?

Diana is the most intelligent woman I have ever met.

____________ John’s being usually late for work, he was dismissed.

Violent crime has been reduced since the laws came into___________.