Due to the shortage of jobs, there has been a decrease in the population in rural areas in the last 10 years. (DECREASED)

Due to the shortage of jobs, the population in rural areas ___________________

ECONOMY

17. Changing the projects both __________________and politically can help us overcome problems.

18. Ireland was one of the fastest-growing _______________ in Western Europe in the 1990s.

INITIATE

11. The man's _______________________ has made a lot of changes in the field.

12. It was up to the US to take the ______________ in repairing relations.

13. The government has ______________ a programme of economic reform.

DETERMINE

1. He fought the illness with courage and _______________.

2. They are __________________to do the work at once.

3. They had survived by sheer ______________.

It was _________________ that we spent the whole day at the beach.

A. so nice a weather           B. such nice weather

C. such nice a weather          D. so a  nice weather

I have three brothers, _____________ are businessmen.

A. that all of them           B. who they all          C. all of whom        D. who all of them

The man who lives opposite us sometimes comes __________ for a cup of coffee.

      A. over              B. off             C. on           D. to

Who did you invite to dinner last night? – No one _______ than Frank and his family.

     A. another          B. the other          C. other           D. the others

By far, _________________________ of Saudi Arabia is oil.         

    A. it is the most important export                          B. the most important export 

     C. the most important export is                              D. that it the most important export

I ________ my best suit at the party last night - everyone else was very casually dressed.

A. needn't wear                  B. mustn't wear

C. needn't have worn              D. mustn't have worn