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I would prefer it _____ a bigger house, but we can't afford it.

• we have

• if we were having

• if we had

• we would have

Only after posting the letter _____ I had forgotten to put on a stamp.

• did I remember that

• that I remembered

• I remember

• that I remember

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

• Valentine

• clementine

• determine

• discipline

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

• obsession

• obscure

• observe

• obstacle

Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others'.

• commercial

• integral

• complexion

• imagine

It was a foregone _____ that I would end up in the same business as him.

• presumption

• prediction

• conclusion

• assumption

The only thing to do was _____ and get on with some serious hard work.

• get off

• knuckle down

• switch on

• break out

The government brought _____ a controversial law under which it could take any land it wanted.

• in

• down

• about

• on

She has devoted all her energies _____ the care of homeless people.

• for

• with

• to

• at

The company has been breaking new _____ in researching a cure for the deadly disease.

• soil

• field

• earth

• ground