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<item><text>the looming ______ of a financial crisis</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">spectre</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>The speech was greeted with a collective ______ from the press gallery.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">yawn</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>The common ______ between the three artists is their age.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">link</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>the company's chief fashion ______</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">designer</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>I felt the gun ______ at my head.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">barrel</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>The plan might work better with more favourable/favorable ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">circumstances</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>London has relatively few high-rise ______ buildings compared to cities in the US.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">office</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>His deepest ______ is with his father, Frank Sr.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">connection</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>There's a lot to be learned from simple ______.</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">observation</choice></choice_g></item>
<item><text>an appalling ______ of women and children</text><choice_g><choice correct="y">massacre</choice></choice_g></item>
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