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1. Our school is famous all over China. The school headmaster has ________ ideas on education.

2. Scientific knowledge has greatly ________ since the 16th century.

3. It would be difficult not to ________ the child's father in the arrangements.

4. The hotel ________ me ＄30 for a room for the night.

5. You will find it hard to ________ the tiger to watch their actions.

6. When the girl ________ again, she found herself lying in a hospital bed.

7. He ________ his daughter Rachel ________ his grandmother Rose Stevens.

8. You don't expect to make much ________ within the first couple of years of setting up a company.

9. The girls who attend the performance come from a ________ of backgrounds.

10. Many Native Americans were killed during the ________ of the American West by Europeans

in the nineteenth century.

11. The film ________ a short story by Thomas Mann.

12. She had to take a ________ before she was admitted into the key middle school.