Question: 1 I ....... my car to make sure it worked about ten mintues before I drove to work.

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Question: 2 My car very rarely ....... first time when the weather is really cold.

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Question: 3 We ....... off early on the first day of summer so that we could see the sun rise.

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Question: 4 I read the ....... of that book but I couldn't possibly read the whole story.

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Question: 5 I can't ....... to understand why anyone would want to be cruel to animals.

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Question: 6 He ....... off at me again simply because I had forgotten to lock the back door after I came home.

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Question: 7 I won a lot of money by betting on that horse but it was simply a case of ....... luck.

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Question: 8 As far as I was concerned when the accident happened, it was the ....... of the end.

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Question: 9 Who would like to ....... off the debate?

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Question: 10 I would greatly appreciate it if you didn't ....... up that old argument again.

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Question: 1 A farmer had two sons both of whom were not very ....... and avoided work if they could.

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Question: 2 One day the father knew that he was dying and called his two sons to his bed ........

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Question: 3 He wanted his sons to pay as much ....... to the cultivation of the farm as he had done many years.

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Question: 4 He told them that there was a ....... treasure in the land and they would have to look for it when he had gone.

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Question: 5 He told them that they would find it in one of his 3 vine ....... but he didn't tell them which one it was.

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Question: 6 The sons assured their father that they would work hard to ....... out the treasure.

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Question: 7 As soon as their father had died and been ......., the sons took out all their farming tools and started to dig the land.

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Question: 8 They worked really hard and dug every single ....... metre of their father's land.

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Question: 9 However long they dug and however hard they worked, they ....... to find the smallest bit of treasure.

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Question: 10 Clearly their father had been a wise man because all the work the sons had done on the land ensured that they had the best ....... for years.

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Question: 1 The business has lost a lot of orders recently and is going through a ....... time.

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Question: 2 The railways system is very efficient as the trains always arrive ....... time.

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Question: 3 My opinion is that they don't know what to do and are merely playing ....... time.

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Question: 4 You can tell just looking at their out of date equipment that the company is well ....... the times.

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Question: 5 His invention showed that he understood what was going to happen in the future and proved he was ....... of his time.

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Question: 6 You can tell she has hit the ....... time because of the huge car she drives.

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Question: 7 If you really want to send that letter off today, it's ....... time you went to the post office.

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Question: 8 The orchestra are meant to ....... time with the conductor.

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Question: 9 If you want to grow as a business and attract new customers you must ....... with the times.

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Question: 10 The parcel eventually arrived six weeks later, and not ....... time!

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