While placing our order, we emphasized that any delay in delivery would definitely_______the cost of the goods.

A.add B.add to C.amount to D.plus

Paragraph FourFrom childhood Bill Gates was intelligent and competitive. In school, he had excellent records in mathematics and science. It was a very important decision in Bill's life that his parents sent him to a private school, and it was there that he was introduced to a computer. Bill Gates and his friends formed the“Programmers Croup"in late 1968. In the next yer, they got their fist opportunity in Information Sciences.The g___ of Bill Gates.

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To tell someone that they should lose a few 1bs — even if you are just trying to help — could actually cause them to gain weight instead, according to new research. The study showed that women who receive more “acceptance messages” are more successful at maintaining and even losing weight overall, compared to those who receive more negative messages.

Negative messages are not helpful for weight l____.

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The business travel and meetings organization in America attributes the recent increase to rising airfares, fuelled by energy prices, constrained capacity and relatively strong demand, higher lodging rates, and growing corporate demansd. For example, it expects corporate spending on overseas trips to rise to $31.8 billion in 2011, a 9.1% increase on last year.

The price of t______ continues rising in America in 2011.