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9. Sodium laureate sulphate, an anionic detergent and 13. Scientists have discovered more than a hundred genes
surfactant found in many personal care products, is what inherited from Neanderthals that help ---- an immune
makes the shampoo ----. response, concluding that these genes allowed our
ancestors ---- the new viruses they encountered in
A) foamed Europe.
B) foam
A) to produce / combat
C) to foam
B) produced / combatting
D) foaming
C) producing / combatted
E) to be foamed
D) to be produced / to be combating
E) produce / to combat

10. Early Africans who ---- to Christianity were made ---- their 14. Many Inuit were forced ---- nomadic hunting and now
native culture and way of life as “pagans.” reside in communities and cities, where they often ---- in
mines and oil fields.
A) covert / abandon
A) abandoned / are working
B) were converting / abandoned
B) to abandon / work
C) had converted / abandoning
C) to be abandoned / worked
D) converted / to abandon
D) abandon / have worked
E) would convert / to be abandoning
E) abandoning / will work

11. The majority of parents are torn between allowing their 15. Farmers ---- through a rough period in recent years
children ---- their own choices and not letting them ---- so. due to global inflation and drought, but in addition to
those problems, they are having trouble locating the
A) to make / do appropriate machinery to get their task ----.
B) make / doing
A) have been going / done
C) making / done
B) goes / doing
D) to be made / to do
C) have gone / to be done
E) made / to be done
D) had gone / to have done
E) will go / being done

12. The symptoms of head and neck cancer vary depending 16. Whether you ask a friend to help you ---- your home
on the kind; nevertheless, since these symptoms ---- or have it ---- for you by an interior designer, you need
by problems other than cancer, it is still important to to first learn about the fundamental design trends and
get them ---- out by your doctor or dentist as soon as figure out what you like and don’t like for your home.
possible.
A) decorating / designing
A) may be caused / checking
B) decorated / to design
B) could be caused / to check
C) to decorate / to be designed
C) might be caused / checked
D) decorate / designed
D) must have been caused / to checking
E) to be decorating / design
E) needn’t have been caused / check

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