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Complete the following passage by supplying the correct form of the word to fill in each blank.   

      There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life, I have found this to be true apart from one notable exception of a good friend and neighbor with whom my first (2) ______ was decidedly unfriendly.       At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________  area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit (6) ________ in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a (7) ________ chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an enormous sense of (8) ______. But then the driver of the car opened his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me.         So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box explaining that in an attempt to (9) _______ his career as an up and coming IT (10) ______, he had been driving too fast the previous evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his wife.

        There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life,

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Câu 2:

There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life, I have found this to be true apart from one notable exception of a good friend and neighbor with whom my first (2) ______ was decidedly unfriendly.

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interchange/ exchange

Câu 3:

At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________  area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door.

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deprived

Câu 4:

At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________  area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door.

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residential

Câu 5:

At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________  area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door.

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best

Câu 6:

This used to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit (6) ________ in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a (7) ________ chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all.

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overboard   

Câu 7:

This used to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit (6) ________ in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a (7) ________ chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all.

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reasonable

Câu 8:

So when one day, I shouted my usual string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an enormous sense of (8) ______. 

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achievement

Câu 9:

So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box explaining that in an attempt to (9) _______ his career as an up and coming IT (10) ______, he had been driving too fast the previous evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his wife.

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further

Câu 10:

So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box explaining that in an attempt to (9) _______ his career as an up and coming IT (10) ______, he had been driving too fast the previous evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his wife.

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