Getting Started

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• developments || progress 
• field || area 
• enormous || big 

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Technology in the _______ of telecommunications has developed greatly over the last decade.

1. specialization
2. field
3. paddy fields
4. faculty

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This Friday, there will be an important meeting on _______ development.

1. economics
2. economized
3. economic
4. economical

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Thanks _______ scientific progress, our world has been transformed greatly.​

1. as
2. at
3. for
4. to

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• economic || money-making 
• the keys || the answers
• benefits || help

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✿ In the future, ordinary people may travel in to  space on spaceships.

✿ He said he worked very hard and that was the  key to his success.

✿ If we had  flying cars now, we could solve the problem of traffic jams.

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She has _______ a lot of progress this semester.

1. make
2. made
3. done
4. do

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Science fiction novels are supposed to be _______. (real)

1. unreality
2. reality
3. unrealistic
4. really

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Fortunately, the river flowing through our town is _______. (pollution)

1. pollute
2. polluted
3. pollutant
4. unpolluted

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Facebook was built on the _______ of earlier social network sites like MySpace and Bebo.

1. succeed
2. successful
3. successfully
4. success