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<item><text>It takes courage to speak out against the ______ of public opinion.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">tide</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>Is there any reference to it in the ______?</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">index</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>By one ______ she earns $80 million a year.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">estimate</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>I saw a good ______ on owls last night.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">programme</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>There were not many people in the ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">bar</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>a bilateral ______ between the US and Mexico</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">treaty</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>to halt the vicious downward ______ of drug abuse</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">spiral</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>Black clouds spread across the ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">sky</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>She got the computer set up with no ______ at all.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">hassle</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>Let's assume he knows, for the ______ of our argument.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">purposes</choice></choice_g></item>
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