1.

Online friendships are becoming the

trend nowadays ➯ , and it
is true ➯ that sometimes we are
more comfortable ➯ sharing areas of life with people
we meet ➯ in the virtual world. It seems that the
anonymity of online friends can help us ➯
as we feel that they cannot judge
us ➯ for they do not
really know us ➯
. So ➯ chatting ➯ with online friends
can be good ➯ ; but ➯ I
think ➯ they can
never replace ➯ the familiarity ➯ of
face-to-face meetings ➯ .

2. Some public examinations in English has ➯ of a written

paper in which students ➯ need ➯

to write ➯ a piece of discursive writing. They may be

asked to present and develop an argument, evaluate ideas, summarise

information, and so on. Test-takers are tested ➯ on a number

of standards ➯ , including their ability to write in an

organised and logical ➯ way,

their knowledge ➯ of a range of stylistic features and

their ability to write in an appropriate style ➯ . Some tasks

may also have ➯ the use of narrative.

3. Many software manufacturers in developed countries put up

with ➯ widespread copyright violations in less

developed countries and often even offer local versions of their products.
4. Scientists are looking into ➯ innovative drug delivery
systems that can transport and deliver a drug precisely and safely to its site
of action.

5. The purpose of this paper is to try to figure out ➯ what

is lacking in our current understanding of corrosion and corrosion protection
in concrete.

6. Researchers have come up with ➯ plug-in hybrid vehicles

(PHEV) that can draw from two sources of energy: stored electrical energy
from the grid and stored chemical energy in the form of fuel such as
gasoline.

7. Rice and aquatic products make up ➯ a major part of the

diet of the people in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

8. The use of touch screen voting systems could get rid of ➯

many problems associated with traditional paper-based ballots.

9. Worldwide consumption of pesticides has gone up to ➯

2.6 million metric tons.
10.Although labor unions in the U.S. have been able to keep

up ➯ their membership numbers over the last two

decades, they have been losing their political strength.
11.The number of mature female green turtles that return to their primary

nesting beach has gone down ➯ from 1,280 ten years ago to
145 today.
12.Many funding agencies worldwide are thinking

about ➯ ways to give new researchers greater

opportunities to receive grant money.

13.Crash test dummies are really important for ➯

automotive crash tests.

14.There has been a lot of ➯ interest in how background

sounds such as music affect an individual's ability to concentrate.
15.4. We obtained nice ➯ results using structural bamboo rather
than timber.
16.The government didn't allocate much funding for the program. ➯ The

government allocated funding for the program.

17.This problem doesn't have many sustainable solutions. ➯ This problem

has sustainable solutions.

18.Not so many people went to watch football in January. Teams made
less money. That was because of bad weather. >>> There was a

significant in attendance at football matches in January as

a of weather conditions, leading to

a in .