ACTIVITY 47a: For sentences below choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Then check the correct answers.

41. Today's activists are — APT SUSCEPTIBLE USED INTENT to pursue one cause to the exclusion of all others.
42. Please find enclosed our — SLIPPING SLIDING GAUGING RAISING scale for life insurance premiums.
43. Your reluctance to join us so soon after your tragic bereavement is entirely — COMPREHENSIVE PERMISSIBLE COMPREHENSIBLE UNDERSTANDABLE .
44. The depleted column was barely able to — WITHSTAND EXPEL WITHHOLD SMASH the enemy attack.
45. According to a hospital spokesman, hopes were — GROWING DECREASING INCREASING FADING last night that the unnamed victim would ever regain consciousness.
46. In some countries, confrontation between police and strikers on — DOLE QUEUES PICKET LINES BACK BENCHES ASSEMBLY LINES has become a feature of life.
47. They were — BADLY SORELY POWERFULLY UTTERLY tempted to relieve the shopkeeper of his three juiciest-looking apples.
48. The renovation work will — ENTAIL RESULT ENSURE ACCOMPLISH closing the local library for six months.
49. His appearance at the reception with the late Mayor's widow caused something of a — CONFUSION RUMOUR WONDER STIR .
50. Believe it or not, he has even — REDUCED DECLINED SUNK CONNIVED to swindling his own friends.
51. The thought of taking such an examination had never for one moment — ENTERED OCCURRED CROSSED SLIPPED my head.
52. The chances of a repetition of these events are — DISTANT SLIM UNLIKELY NARROW indeed.
53. She — STROLLED DASHED AMBLED PLUNGED out of the house as fast as her legs would carry her.
54. Certain details in the contract still remain to be — FLATTENED DEALT IRONED BORNE out.
55. — DESPITE HOWEVER SO AS little we may like it, old age comes to most of us.
56. 'But son,' I told him, 'you're my own — HEART TO HEART BODY AND SOUL FLESH AND BLOOD SKIN AND BONE '.
57. For a while I was at a — BLANK PAIN LOSS CRISIS to know what to say.
58. The easiest way to get this nut off the bolt would be to use a — SPANNER WINCH SCREWDRIVER JACK .
59. After the extravagant claims of the advance publicity, the film was a great — BUILDUP LETDOWN BREAKOUT FALLOUT .
60. Which — NOTES KEY CHORD SCORE do you propose to play this piece in?

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