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Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
A.determined
B.sure
C.original
D.certain

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That the genetic differences make one race superior to another is nothing but a tall story.
A.cynical
B.unbelievable
C.untrue
D.exaggeration

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When two people get married, it is with the assumption that their feelings for each other are immutable and will never alter.
A.constantly
B.alterable
C.unchangeable
D.everlasting

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The expression “out of the frying pan and into the fire” means to go from one dilemma to a worse one.
A.situation
B.predicament
C.solution
D.embarrassment

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When posed with a complicated mathematical equation, some students seek the assistance of a teacher.
A.spaced
B.informed
C.solved
D.presented

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The Extension Program first established in 1873 at Cambridge University has successfully withstood changing popular trends.
A.sponsored
B.endured
C.stabilized in
D.extended

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Jack persisted in attempting to convince his employers to use more technology and fewer people.
A.endured
B.remained
C.repeated
D.insisted

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The works of such men as the English philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes helped pave the way for academic freedom in the modern sense.
A.terminate
B.prevented
C.enhanced
D.incorporated

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It’s a lovely house and very big but nobody uses it so it’s a bit of a white elephant.
A.something very expensive and useless
B.something very big and useful
C.something very beautiful and useful
D.something very cheap and useless

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When the business folded, he took the lion's share of the assets.
A.the only part
B.the smallest part
C.the easiest part
D.the biggest part