PART 1 VUCABULARY (15 minutes, 10 points, 4.5 point each) CV7%ud]E
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5. We all buy things on the ______ of the moment; this is what the retail trade calls an “impulse “buy. Rhil]|a/
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6. Nothing has ever equaled the ______ and speed with which the human species is altering the physical and chemical world. I\peO /w
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12. Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works have become______ and are no longer used in the present days. w\'Zcw,d
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13. One of the main ways to stay out of trouble with government agents is to keep a law______ away from those situations wherein you call attention to yourself. Y'n TyH
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14. With 1 million copies sold out within just 2 weeks, that book is indeed a ______ success. ih?_ f
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15. As the core of the management hoard, he can always come up with ______ ideas to promote the corporation's marketing strategies. ";j/k9DE
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17. Surely it doesn't matter where charities get their money from: what ______much is what they do with it. 3bpbk
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l8. Any business needs ordinary insurance______ risks such as fire, flood and breakage. ? YX2CJ6N
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