| 1.
| What do you think of the Bell School teachers/T-shirts? I really like them.
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| 2.
| He asked if it could be given in a bit late and I said yes, today/yesterday was OK.
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| 3.
| I think Agassi’s winning it to love/two-love.
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| 4.
| I’d have lied/liked to help him.
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| At least/last you understand what I mean.
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| I think she lives at No. 68/60A.
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| 7.
| He was lapped/rapped by his team-mates because he hadn’t trained hard enough.
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| 8.
| Seals are culled/killed each summer off the Newfoundland coast.
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| 9.
| They asked if I was sending anybody and I said Mike or myself/I might go myself.
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| I’m afraid we’ve only fifty/fifteen left in stock.
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| She likes/lacks that little extra bit of class.
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| 12.
| He’s just become a member of the Hockey/Jockey Club.
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| 13.
| They’re going to Wrexham/Wroxham for their holidays.
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| 14.
| What do you think those ships/shapes on the horizon are?
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| 15.
| Did you realize he slept/slipped out last night?
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| 16.
| It’s an amazing/amusing story, isn’t it?
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| 17.
| The roads were absolutely impossible/impassable last week.
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| 18.
| Sooner or later we’ll have to chuck/check them out.
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| 19.
| Is it ready for typing/taping yet?
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| 20.
| Most of the new wavebands/new-wave bands sound really good.
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| 21.
| We need a cork/chalk board in our classroom.
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| 22.
| Do they have many orchids/orchards in Tunisia?
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| 23.
| I see Oxford University is advertising the chair in metaphysics/matter physics.
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| 24.
| Can you help Bridget/Richard to get it finished?
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| 25.
| It’ll be difficult to keep within these perimeters/parameters, but you must try.
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| 26.
| I think they now give the weather report from the new/news studio.
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| 27.
| He’s working on a new model/module at the moment.
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| 28.
| I must say I quite fancy/fancied going to see his latest film.
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| 29.
| She’s one of the most evil-/even-tempered people I‘ve ever met.
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| 30.
| His house is really tidy/tiny.
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| 31.
| The bathroom’s small, but it’s got a flush/flash loo.
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| 32.
| Iran has been particularly successful in reducing its dependence on American experts/exports.
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| 33.
| Is lamb/land cheaper in Australia than it is here?
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| 34.
| Do you think he feels a bit better/bitter about it now?
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| 35.
| In the late sixties neo-colonialist attitudes could have posed a real threat to the Kenyan Asian/Kenyan nation.
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| 36.
| We just can’t get our gardener to cut the hedges/edges neatly.
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| 37.
| If you add soda/cider, it’ll make it nice and fizzy.
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| 38.
| She said that as far as she was concerned we’d been/be no trouble at all.
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| 39.
| The longer we went on, the hotter/harder it became.
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| 40.
| If you’re looking for John I think he’s in the lab/lav.
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| 41.
| He’s teaching the computer to play a new game – not chess but something similar/simpler.
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| 42.
| Did you know your real offside light’s on/gone?
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| 43.
| I’m leaving! I’m not going to let you run/ruin my life.
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| 44.
| That was the first of a series of dramatic/traumatic events that took place in his teens.
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| 45.
| My son got a new pair of flippers/slippers to take on holiday with him.
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| 46.
| If only one could test learners’ attitudes/aptitudes, it’d be a lot easier to group them.
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| 47.
| I’m told there are a lot of tigers/Thai girls in the north of the country.
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| 48.
| I wish that guy/I could be given more help at times.
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| 49.
| The main advantage of this material is that it’s expendable/expandable.
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| 50.
| Do you know if this text is copyright/copied right?
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| 51.
| Have you had/heard the results yet?
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| 52.
| Is Susie’s horse ready for shoeing/showing?
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| 53.
| Do you know if he’s gone aboard/abroad yet?
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| 54.
| To get accurate results you need use a wide range of text-/test-types.
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| 55.
| She’s a member of the National/Natural Childbirth Trust.
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| 56.
| She bought him a Bulova/pullover for Christmas.
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| 57.
| He was best known for his work in musicals/music halls in the fifties.
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| 58.
| I understand the Prime Minister is back in/backing Britain.
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| 59.
| Several teams have paid dearly for underestimating the Brazilians/their resilience.
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| 60.
| I think he said he wouldn’t be back till eight/late.
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| 61.
| Are we going to be able to send him the remainder/reminder in time?
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| 62.
| I don’t really think she has any intention of leaving/living with him.
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| 63.
| Seeing that has made me feel really angry/hungry.
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| 64.
| Let’s eat/heat that stew up tomorrow. It seems a pity to waste it.
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| 65.
| Have you tasted/tested it yet?
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| 66.
| I honestly thought you were joking/choking.
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| 67.
| I don’t know if he hurt/heard her or not.
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| 68.
| Mansell left the pits fast/first, but Senna was soon after him.
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| 69.
| Do you have any idea what the prize/price is?
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| 70.
| I can’t put anything in this bucket/pocket because there’s a hole in it.
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| 71.
| You know I/I’d like to see you whenever possible.
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| 72.
| The only way to get there in winter is by the old route up the mountain pass/path.
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| 73.
| Are you going to help us get the vote/boat out?
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| 74.
| Have you seen those bills/pills I was looking for?
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| 75.
| I believe Peter’s chairman/German, isn’t it?
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| 76.
| He won several Grand Prix races in the Surtees/thirties before he retired.
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| 77.
| Was the Mini/money recognizable afterwards?
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| 78.
| He works for the highlands/islands tourist board.
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| 79.
| James was one of the Stuarts/stewards, wasn’t he?
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| 80.
| The finance committee were told that the extra house/hours would cost £40,000.
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| 81.
| They’d be surprised if they realized what people like Caroline/Carol and I have to do.
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| 82.
| AJ/HA Foyt is the only driver to have won the ‘Indi 500’ three years in a row.
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| 83.
| The conference is scheduled for Friday the 13th/30th of May.
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| 84.
| I’m afraid I’ve no idea if they/they’ve finished.
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| 85.
| I could do with an ice-cold/a nice, cold drink.
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| 86.
| He’s recently become an MB/MP.
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| 87.
| Farmers in the north and in Scotland lost a lot of lambs/rams last winter.
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| 88.
| This pen/pan is no use – it keeps leaking.
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| 89.
| It was several hours before they phoned/found us.
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| 90.
| Cambridge is about 60 miles from Norwich and 60 also/or so from London.
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| 91.
| The police said they would fine/find the offender immediately.
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| 92.
| If you like the style, there’s a wide choice of colours/collars available.
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| 93.
| The race/rice was ruined by the rain.
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| 94.
| He ran/rang off before we could ask his name.
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| 95.
| That was quite a flight/fright we had, wasn’t it?
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| 96.
| Import restrictions on Catalan/cattle and sheep are now likely to be lifted.
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| 97.
| I’ve strained/sprained my wrist, so I won’t be able to play tomorrow.
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| 98.
| What he said was true in either/neither case.
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| 99.
| Norwich/Knowledge grew faster that ever before after the Renaissance.
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| 100.
| This election/selection doesn’t give one much of a choice, doesn’t it?
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A. Pre-listening Activities
Many people already know what the United Nations Organization is and where it is located, but how many know when and why it was first planned?
In this lecture, the answers to these questions are explored, and some recent statistics about its operating budget are given.
