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Practice test 6

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  1. It seems that Earth is the only  [planet that can] support life.
  2. That book is absolute rubbish. It's not worth  [reading] .
  3.  [Although] we hadn't received an invitation to the party, we decided to go anyway.
  4. It is absolutely essential that you  [not be] late for the meeting.
  5. I got  [caught] up in the book. It was so thrilling!
  6. It was sabotage and an act of  [hostility] to our country.
  7. It's very  [unfortunate] , but it seems we  [overestimated] his skills and abilities. He shouldn't have been hired.
  8. You should  [let] him say what he wants to say. It's his right, isn't it?
  9. Money  [talks] ! You'll see what he'll  [say] if you give him $10,000.
  10. I need to buy  [an] umbrella. Do you know  [a] good shop in the area?
  11. I'm sure Donna doesn't mind  [being photographed] while exercising. She'd actually be quite eager to see the photos when she finds out.
  12. My cousin is not very nice; she is always putting other people  [down] .
  13. George is easy to get along with.  [Most people] like him.
  14. Why was the guy turned  [down] for the job? He was definitely the best of the applicants.
  15.  [You had better] call your boss and tell him about the trouble now before it's too late.
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Woman to Pay €200,000 for Adultery

An adulterous Spanish woman has  [been] ordered to pay €200,000 in moral damages for the suffering caused to her husband by her illicit affair. The woman,  [who] had three children by her lover, pretended for years that they were fathered by her husband,  [according] to reports.

After years  [of] suspecting her of infidelity, the husband, who can't be named, finally discovered she had kept a lover for six of the fourteen years the couple had been together. DNA tests showed that three of their four children had been fathered by the  [other] man. The husband then took his wife  [to] court, demanding compensation.

The court in Valencia, southeastern Spain, ordered her to pay €100,000 for the suffering she caused him. She fought  [the] ruling, but the Supreme Court has upheld it, and doubled the damages to €200,000. Judges said that the compensation should be “higher than if the children  [had] been killed in  [an] accident”.

The wife was judged to  [have] “acted negligently in the conception of her children”, and the concealment of  [the] truth “only added to the pain caused to the husband”, who should be compensated correctly.

 [in] her defence, the woman  [told] the court her extramarital activities had been “passionate and irregular” and blamed her husband for  [being] cold, unfaithful and disinterested in the children.

The court ruled her claims  [were] not credible.