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1 – …………..Uzbeks make up only 15% of Kyrgyzstan’s population of 5.4m, most of them live in the southern part of the country, where they make up the majority.
a) Although
b) In spite of
c) When
d) Because
e) Now that
2 – …………… the Soviet Union existed and the republics were part of the same country, this made little [...]

1 – ………..clasping her hands nervously when she is upset,she is actually very calm,which is shown by her ability to keep her temper in the most difficult situations.
a) Although
b) Despite
c) If
d) Whereas
e) As
2 – Ms. Brown has no children of her own. ………….,she says that she feels like a mother to  all of the children [...]

1 – The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, had hoped to stall action on the Greek debt crisis until………….. regional elections on Sunday May 9th in North Rhine-Westphalia, the country’s most populous and economically productive state.
a) Before
b) Once
c) When
d) After
e) Because
2 – America grew at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 3.2% in the first three months [...]

1 – Inquiries began into a spate of factory-worker suicides at Foxconn’s industrial park in Shenzhen, ……………… the Taiwanese firm assembles products for tech companies.
a) Which
b) Of which
c) Where
d) Whom
e) That
2 – This makes climate studies highly dependent on models, ………… invariably and unavoidably make simplifying assumptions
a) That
b) Who
c) In whom
d) Which
e) Whose
3 – Understanding [...]