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Spectacular, played today on all kinds of surfaces by tens of millions of people, for fun or in competition, tennis has spread (26) ______ over the world. Designed and codified in England in the 1870s, it is the direct descendant of jeu de paume, invented in France in the 11th century. The developments of this mediaeval (27) ______ , originally practised with bare hands, like the invention of the racket in the 16th century and the special scoring system (15, 30, 40, game), led directly to tennis, (28) ______ its name, from the French word “tenez!” (in the sense of “here it comes!”), which you said to your opponent as you were about to serve.
The popularity of tennis in England quickly (29) ______ that of croquet. Indeed, barely three years passed between the publication of A Portable Court of Playing Tennis by Welsh Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1874, the defining work in terms of codifying lawn tennis, and the holding of the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877. The decisive element introduced by Wingfield was the use of a rubber ball, (30) ______ could bounce on grass.
(Adapted from https://www.olympic.org/)
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He wasn't aware that only one mistake could________his chances of getting the job.
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Let’s begin our discussion now, ___________?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
The forces behind the women's liberation movement vary from culture to culture.
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I haven’t stayed in a hotel for years.
Preventing the soil from erosion, the trees planted by the farmer many years before were what stopped the flood from reaching their house.
John's decision to drop out of university to go to a vocational school drove his mother up the wall. She thought that it is really a stupid decision.
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Health promotion and disease prevention programs focus on keeping people healthy. Health promotion programs aim to engage and empower individuals and communities to choose healthy behaviours and make changes that reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. Defined by the World Health Organization, health promotion is: “The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.”
Disease prevention differs from health promotion because it focuses on specific efforts aimed at reducing the development and severity of chronic diseases and other morbidities.
Wellness is related to health promotion and disease prevention. Wellness is described as the attitudes and active decisions made by an individual that contribute to positive health behaviours and outcomes.
Health promotion and disease prevention programs often address social determinants of health, which influence modifiable risk behaviours. Social determinants of health are the economic, social, cultural, and political conditions in which people are born, grow, and live that affect health status. Modifiable risk behaviours include, for example, tobacco use, poor eating habits, and lack of physical activity, which contribute to the development of chronic disease.
(Adapted from https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/)
Which best serves as the title for the passage?
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