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3.
A: What made you decide to take up guitar lessons?
B: ______________ to become a guitar player.
I had always wanted
I
always wanted
I have always wanted
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8.
A: My teachers always ________ me
study hard when I was attending high school.
made
let
have
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4.
A: I’d like to enter the marathon next Saturday.
B: But you haven’t been running ______ to enter a race.
long enough
too long
enough long
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9.
A:I was eating dinner when a tarantula walked across my plate.
B: ________ disgusting experience that must have been!
How
What
What a
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5.
A: You ___________ between eight and ten because I went out for dinner.
should have called
must have called
would have called
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10.A: I _________ my homework when
John arrived.
finished
have finished
had finished
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Life without computers (11)
became
has become
has
became
unimaginable. They are designed to look after so many boring but essential tasks
that we have become
(12)
dependent
on dependent
from responsible
for
them. But as the demands placed on computers grow, so have the number of
incidents
(13)
including
involving
promoting
computer errors. Computer experts warn that the traditional ways of building
computer systems are not good enough (14)
dealing
dealt
to
deal
with complex tasks like flying planes or maintaining nuclear power stations.
In 1889, the word "bug", meaning a mistake, entered the (15)
idiom
mother
tongue language
. For decades, a computer engineer´s job
(16)has
supposed to were
supposed to was
supposed to involve
"de-bugging". For example, if a bug entered a nuclear power station, lots of
lives would be
(17)in
danger risky
misleading
However, for the last fifteen years, a growing
(18)degree
amount
number
of computer safety experts have been claiming that programmers themselves have
to learn to demonstrate mathematically how safe a program is.(19)If
Although
Unless
programmers learn to do this, we will probably just have to live with the
results of computer bugs. Until that moment comes, we should follow an MIT
professor´s advice:"PC users
(20)would
rather
had
better
would
like to
take precautions by means of using legal software."
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