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9. Scientists working on forecasting the global changes 13. Higher education _______ much more accessible to
_______ that a greenhouse effect _______ the temperature students in the last few decades thanks to the widespread
dangerously over the next 75 years or so. use of the Internet, without which disadvantaged students
_______ behind their peers.
A) have claimed / boosted
B) claimed / will boost A) is becoming / would have fallen
C) claim / has boosted B) became / were likely to fall
D) would claim / was to boost C) has become / could fall
E) claimed / would boost D) becomes / can fall
E) will become / might be falling

10. Archaeologists _______ the remains of a 7,200-year-old 14. _______ business-to-customer e-commerce, in which
female skeleton- a relatively intact fossil- in Indonesia, sales are made between a business and a customer,
which _______ to a person aged 17 or 18, never found business-to-business e-commerce encompasses sales
anywhere in the world up to the present time. between a manufacturer and a wholesaler or retailer.

A) discovered / will belong A) Similar to
B) have discovered / belonged B) Apart from
C) are discovering / belongs C) In terms of
D) had discovered / has belonged D) Unlike
E) discover / is belonging E) In addition to

11. Europe and Central Asia have the highest social protection 15. Thanks to the developments in technology, the number
coverage rates, with 84 per cent of people _______ by at of digital encyclopedias, _______ on CD-ROM and the
least one social protection, _______ by the Americas, at Internet, _______ that of printed encyclopedias in the
64.3 per cent. twenty-first century.
A) covering / following A) producing / has been surpassing
B) covered / followed B) having been produced / surpassed
C) having covered / followed C) produced / has surpassed
D) being covered / following D) to be produced / had surpassed
E) to be covered / to be followed E) to produce / will surpass

12. Since our childhood, we have been told _______ stories 16. Most European countries witness large flows of
by our parents or grandparents, and _______ of them, family migrants, _______ arrive with some delay, and
whether we are aware of it or not, must have left an impact consequently this situation arises the question of _______
on our personality. this process affects their integration into the host country.
A) many / every A) which / why
B) a number of / either B) many of whom / how
C) a lot of / both C) who / what
D) several / each D) some of which / the fact that
E) most / none E) whom / whether

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