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1- I have been working for the same company _______ two years.

a- Since

b- For

c- In

2- What happened? Why are you so late?

a- Not bad
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I know I should have come _______ but I got stuck in traffic.

a- Earlier

b- Earliest

c- Early

a- Not bad
3- What made you decide to take up guitar lessons?

____________ to become a guitar player.

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a- I had always wanted

b- I always wanted

c- I have always wanted

4- I’d like to enter the marathon next Saturday.

a- Not bad
But you haven’t been running __________ to enter a race.

a- Long enough
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b- Too long
1- How are yo
c- Enough long

5- You ________ between eight and ten because I went out for dinner.

a- Should have called

b- Must have called

c- Would have called

a- Not bad
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6- When I was a child, I __________ to play baseball on the school team.

a- Was used

b- Would

c- Used

a- Not bad
7- I am interested __________ learning foreign languages

a- Of
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b- In
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c- About

8- My teachers always ______ me study hard when I was attending high school.

a- Made

b- Let

c- Have
a- Not bad
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9- I was eating dinner when a tarantula walked across my plate.

_______ disgusting experience that must have been!

a- How

b- What

c- What a

10- I _____ my homework when John arrived.

a- Not bad
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a- Finished
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b- Have finished

c- Had finished

a- Not bad
Life without computers (11) became___ has become ___ has became ____ unimaginable. They
are designed to look after so many boring but essential tasks that we have become (12) dependent
on __ dependent from ___ responsible for ___ them. But as the demands placed on computers
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grow, so have the number of incidents (13) including ___ involving ___ promoting ___
computing errors. Computer experts warn that the traditional ways of building computer systems
are not good enough (14) dealing ___ dealt ___ to deal ___ with complex tasks like flying planes
or maintaining nuclear power stations.

In 1889, the word “bug”, meaning a mistake entered the (15) idiom ___ mother tongue ___

a- Not bad
language ___. For decades, a computer engineer’s job (16) has supposed to ___ were supposed to
___ was supposed to ___ involve “de-bugging”. For example, if a bug entered a power nuclear
station, lots of lives would be (17) in danger ___ risky ___ misleading ___.
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However, for the last fifteen years, a growing (18) degree ____ amount ___ number ___ of
computer safety experts have been claiming that programmers themselves have to learn to
demonstrate mathematically how safe a program is. (19) If ___ although ___ unless ___
programmers learn to do this, we will probably just have to live with the results of computer bugs.
Until that moment comes, we should follow an MIT professor’s advice: “PC users (20) would
rather ___ had better ___ would like to ___ take precautions by means of using legal software”.

Maria Laura Tarabillo a- Not bad