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Babies show numerical competence (A) almost (B) from the day they are born, and some younger infants (C) than six months have shown they can perform a rudimentary (D) kind of addition and subtraction.

Environmental groups try to stop farmers from using harmful _____ on their crops.

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Maria says she'd like to have been put in a higher class.

It's no use ____ make him _____ his mind.

Efforts are underway to protect endangered species from further human ________, but in many areas it is already too late.

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The film was taken apart on the grounds that it glorifies violence.

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On hearing the proposal of the project, all staff threw cold water on his initial plans, which caused him a complete upset.

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Human memory (A), formerly was believed (B ) to be rather inefficient, (C) is really much more sophisticated than that of a (D) computer.

The doctor gave her a ______ check-up so as to discover the cause of her breakdown.

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Two friends are talking about their evening plans.

- Janet: “______ ”

- Susan: “What a shame!”

Many teachers suggest that final examinations be ____, an innovation I heartily support.

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Assuring (A) the reliability and purity of the water supply (B) is one of the more significant challenges facing (C) an ever growing (D) world population.

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Efforts by the government agency to improve its work were hampered by lack of funds.

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I'm sure Mary was very disappointed when she failed to get the scholarship.

_______ , follow the signs for „Arrivals' unless you are transferring to another plane at the same airport.

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Humans generally spent more time working than do other creatures, but there is greater variability in industriousness from one human culture to the next than is seen in subgroups of any other species. For instance, the average French worker toils for 1,646 hours a year; the average American for 1,957 hours; and the average Japanese for 2,088.

One reason for human diligence is that people, unlike animals, can often override the impulses they may feel to slow down. They can drink coffee when they might prefer a nap or flick on the air-conditioning when the heat might otherwise demand torpor. Many humans are driven to work hard by a singular desire to gather resources far beyond what is required for survival. Squirrels may collect what they need to make it through one winter but only humans worry about collect bills, retirement, or replacing their old record albums with compact discs.

Among other primates, if you don't need to travel around to get food for that day, you sit down and relax, said Dr.Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlarita. "it's typically human to try to accumulate wealth and get more and more.”

Much of the acquisitiveness is likely to be the result of cultural training. Anthropologists have found that most hunter-gatherer groups, who live day to day on the resources they can kill or forage and who stash very little away for the future generally work only three to five hours daily.

Indeed, an inborn temptation to reduce may lurk beneath even the most work-obsessed people, which could explain why sloth ranks with lust and gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins.

The passage is a combination of contrast and _______ .