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Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits the blank
British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (a) ______ sports and reading. A survey recently (b) ______ on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (c) ______ works out at over three hours a day.
What is surprising, (d) ______, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (e) ______ to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well.
Gap (a):
A.
like
B.
alike
C.
as
D.
such
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*Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits the blank.
British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the TV and do not have enough time on other activities (a) ______ sports and reading. A survey recently (b) ______ on people’s viewing habits does not approve this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (c) ______ works out at over three hours a day.
What is surprising, (d) ______, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible 28 hours a week. We (e) ______ to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television set and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well.
Gap (d):
A.
in addition
B.
however
C.
moreover
D.
therefore
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Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentence
I"d like to book a room with a/an______ of the sea.
A.
sight
B.
scenery
C.
outlook
D.
view