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27. ---- ever since the boss decided to employ five 30. Whenever my brother eats food that contains
more engineers. yoghurt ----

A) The assistants had been discussing the A) he usually puts on weight during winter
details with the manager months
B) We are pretty sure that the project won’t be B) actually the food in the fridge has already
over before the deadline gone off
C) There was a great demand for minor positions C) his friends order some steak and rice
in the sales branch D) he feels sleepy before his usual bedtime
D) About three hundred applicants have visited
us E) he refuses to have any more pancakes
E) Unemployment rates have been exceptionally
rising

28. Just as the pilot was about to land the plane 31. ---- when the firefighters arrived in the house
‑‑‑‑ that was on fire.
A) most of the passengers were actually rich A) The fire had started from the oven in the
people kitchen at the basement
B) the flight was cancelled due to bad weather B) Two children have died because of the dense
conditions smoke
C) the hijacker is trying to persuade the pilot to www.englishexampoint.com C) The police blamed a tramp for having set the
direct the plane to Vietnam fire
D) a significant data loss occurred in our D) The victims had already got out with the help
company of their neighbours
E) one of the passengers from the back began E) Flammable materials should have been kept
to shout and threatened to kill one of the air in somewhere safe
attendants

29. We are going to share our office with one of 32. Hardly had we heard the thunder ----
our business partners ----
A) when the strong wind began to beat our roof
A) because several rivals are making the
competition harder B) than my father told us to take shelter in the
cellar
B) until the construction of our office building is
completed C) that we understood that it would be a strong
hurricane
C) but the last business agreement still hasn’t D) when a body of cold air met a warm one
been made
D) as soon as the agreement between the E) as soon as several window panes were
partners is assigned broken
E) as we can afford to pay the rent of our own

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