Thomas De Quincey once said that there is no such thing as forgetting – a rather frightening (1) If we could remember everything all the time, not to (2) those things we feel (3) or guilty about, life would be unbearable. Naturally, we remember shocking and dramatic events better than any (4) The things we most often forget are names, numbers, dates, (5) learned by cramming for exams, and things we don’t understand.
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Solution
- thought (Thought here means "idea".)
- mention (Not to mention is a collocation.)
- ashamed (We need an adjective that means something similar to guilty.)
- others (Others here refers to "other events".)
- information (Names, numbers and dates are examples of information.)
Employers often offer employees perks in addition to cash wages, for example, membership of a health insurance or company pension (1) If they do, they must 2 that they are fair in providing these benefits in order to (3) discrimination. For instance, if an employer (4) an entitlement to low-interest loans in male, but not female, employees’ contracts, the female employees could take the employer to court on the basis of unequal (5) .
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Solution
- scheme (Health insurance scheme and pension scheme are collocations.)
- ensure (We need a verb that means "make sure".)
- avoid (Discrimination is a negative thing, so we need to avoid it.)
- includes (Includes collocates with in later in the sentence.)
- treatment (We need a noun to describe what the employer does.)
Wind-blown (1) of sand from dunes may carry far inland, covering fields and diverting streams. More seriously, drifting sands can bury whole buildings and transform (2) land into desert. However, dunes can be made more stable by the artificial (3) of marram grass, a plant so robust that it can find (4) even in sand. The grass spreads over the (5) of the dune, protecting it against wind, while its roots bind the sand together.
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Solution
- grains (Grains of sand is a collocation.)
- fertile (We need an adjective to describe land and to contrast with desert.)
- planting (We need a gerund to refer to putting plants in the ground .)
- nourishment (We need a noun to refer to what this plant gets from sand.)
- surface (This refers to where the grass is, in contrast to the roots under the surface.)
As we know from tsunamis, when water is moving at 50 or 60 kilometers an hour it becomes deadly. Even if a wave only (1) up to the knees, the (2) can knock a person down. Water flows around some obstacles, while slamming into large (3) , such as walls, which stand in its way. It also gathers (4) , like rocks and trees, as it flows, causing even more destruction when it crashes into buildings.
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Solution
- comes (This forms the phrasal verb comes up to, which means " reaches".)
- force (We need a noun for what knocks a person down.)
- objects (We need a plural noun.)
- debris (The noun debris refers to the material picked up by the tsunami.)
This exciting new M.A. in Creative Writing is designed for graduates who wish to examine and expand their work. Through workshops, seminars, and (1) tutorials, students will discover new writing strategies and refine their writing. The course (2) students the practical expertise needed for researching and structuring texts, and (3) traditions and genres, as well as the critical and creative proficiencies (4) to develop a career in creative writing or in a related (5) .
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Solution
- individual (We need an adjective to describe tutorials.)
- offers (We need a verb to describe what the course does.)
- understanding (We need a gerund to add to the list of what the course offers.)
- necessary (The word necessary here means "which are necessary".)
- field (The phrase related field mean s "a similar area of work".)