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1. Among the roommate’s offenses are a refusal to contribute to any cleaning except for cleaning of her own room and a penchant for stealing other roommates’ eggs, snacks and alcohol, including my favorite Sky Vodka and Jack Daniels.

2. In spite of Fiona’s protest, her friends - including her closest companion Rebecca - insisted that Fiona consider outside aid to help Fiona deal with her feelings of depression.

3. My husband is likely to take over coaching for boy’s high school tennis team, even though he did not ask for that sport, but rather asked for the boy’s cross country team.

4. Coming in at nearly 7000 words, the Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Martin Luther King from city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in a non-violent protest; I discovered this fact while doing research for my book report.

5. Michael expresses only affection for his girlfriend, Erika; as a result, Erika accepts only exclusive high-end handbag gifts from her boyfriend.

6. The combined personal cellphone and digital camera, ubiquitous since the launch of the iPhone series, provides consumers the ability to conveniently capture everyday moments and can not hold hundreds of thousands of high quality pictures.

7. You can either wear a nice elegant red dress or stay home tonight.

8. Jessica’s husband noticed that the coloring on her running shoes was wearing out and that her shoes were a general state of disrepair, so he advised Jessica to buy a new pair of running shoes.

9. Despite having studied Chinese for five years, I cannot manage to recognize many of the words in a Chinese newspaper; mu most recent test score indicates that I am an underachiever.

10. Once you show Maria how to use financial data terminal, her natural skill as a salesperson will allow her to overtake all of the division’s accounts by herself in no time - watch out for your own job.

11. The beverage CEO remarked that, in terms of profit increase, cutting costs couldn’t compare to growing unit sales in the new energy drink division.

12. Our winning a million dollars is dependent on our mother’s receiving a very lucky set of lotto numbers.

13. This fall’s new handbag is available in both lambskin and caviar - and we expect that the new model should be produced only in limited quantities in order to maintain the product’s air of exclusivity.

14. A number of my coworkers are coming to the company off-site meeting, but the number of impediments to my joining the golf tournament that week is quite large.

15. My boss considers my probing behavior an insult to his managerial capability - it seems that he is hiding even more and more sensitive information that is preventing me from doing my work.

16. Patrick, who hasn’t showered in days, smells bad - however, Brian, who is suffering from nasal congestion, smells so badly that Patrick’s odor doesn’t bother him at all.

17. Michael Phelps proved himself deserving of the most successful athlete of the Olympic Games, breaking a number of world records, winning 22 medals, participating in 3 Olympic Games, and inspiring people all around the world.

18. Mr. and Mrs. Lee told the babysitter that if she helped their daughter Rebecca get an “A” in geometry, they would take the babysitter to the amusement park.

19. On the expert panel are an expert in diabetes and two members of a research tram that developed a promising new approach for treating Type 2 diabetes.

20. Charlie thinks he can run as fast as Usain Bolt; he has also boasted about his abilities in such sports as football, tennis, and curling.

21. Since the 1970s, the record for fastest tennis serve has been broken numerous times due to technology that has advanced even more rapidly than commentators had predicted.

22. Federer intends not only to win the match but also to break the world record for cumulative tennis championships won; in my opinion, his opponent is neither threatening to him nor, quite frankly, intimidating to anyone else in the top 10 rankings.

23. Learning violin is an often frustrating journey during which a student who lacks discipline is likely to become discourage and lose interest.

24. Because the British Secret Service believed James Bond was trustworthy, Secret Service allowed Bond to enter foreign territory without satellite surveillance protection.

25. Maria is no less talented a dancer than lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger; however, unlike Scherzinger, Maria lacks a certain celebrity flare.

26. Although his internal lack of self confidence was stopping Matt from asking the cute single girl to dance at the wedding, after a round of alcoholic cocktails, he was able to do so.

27. As an animal rights activist, I was upset not only that she was eating a hamburger, but also, that she, as a neuroscientist, was torturing rats daily in lab.

28. The Bahamas is such a romantic destination to my wife that she has suggested to her friend to have his honeymoon there.

29. The tourism agency advertised Tijuana as a destination where singles can meet one another and where singles can enjoy numerous activities such as outdoor tennis, mini-golf, buffet, magic shows, and ice-breaking games.

30. The fitness trainer at the gym gave me three pointers: eat fewer simple carbohydrates, drink more water, and consume protein from a variety of sources.

31. My daughter looks more presentable than my neighbor’s daughters; neither of my neighbor’s daughters even seems to care about her looks.

32. Incoming CEO Hassan is beginning to reform the company’s operations, hiring new managers, increasing worker productivity through capital investment, and overhauling the go-to-market strategy.

33. The silicon implant was small enough for my body’s tissue to accommodate. The implant, however, was so expensive that I had to take out a second mortgage.

34. During last night’s Okada Fight Club, featured dorm fighter Dennis Jackson entered the spectacularly decorated living room as a DJ played theme music paying him a musical tribute.

35. Banshee has the ability to fly and his mentor Professor X has he ability to read people’s mind; I, however, try to hide my ability to make fire, lest others force me to demonstrate.

36. Each of the players in the team is sporting tram’s new sports jersey.

37. The small law firm told each of the disqualified job applicants that its company policies prevented it from hiring him.

38. The idealistic entrepreneur would rather misappropriate venture capital funds toward developing crazy ideas than actually create something of tangible value so that investors can see a return.

39. The smart-phone CEO requires that all of his employees attend weekly strategy meetings; as a result of this weekly agenda, the managers are well aligned in their visions and goals for the company.

40. If I were the CEO of this company, I would demand, under threat of severance, that you cease dining clients during lunch hours at the local strip club.

       Level 600

   01. Out of America’s fascination with all things antique has grown a market for bygone style of cars and vans that is bringing back the buggy, the station wagon, and the Rolls-Royce.

   02. Recent findings lend strong support to the theory that a black hole lies at the center of the Milky Way and of many of the 100 billion other galaxies estimated to exist in the universe.

   03. The pattern of whisker spots on the face of a male lion, like human fingerprints, is a lifelong means of identification, since it is both unique and unchanging.

   04. Trying to find the reason for a discrepancy in the records, he found that the files had been tampered with.

   05. The first time that Larry, laden with packages, walked down the ramp, he tripped and nearly dislocated his shoulder.

   06. In addition to the immediate money crisis that the hospital faces, its survival depends on whether it can broaden its membership and partner with large insurance companies.

   07. The financial credit crisis of 2007 and 2008 demonstrated that the world’s capital markets are more closely integrated than ever before and that events in one part of the global village may be transmitted to the test of the village almost instantaneously.

   08. Tim Ferris wrote The 4-Hour Workweek, an eye-opening book, which made it to the New York Times Best Seller List.

   09. Just as reading Peter Richardson’s dairy gives a reader a sense of the nineteenth century-of its emotions and strife -- so listening to Chopin’s Ballad takes the pianist inside the world of classical romance.

10. Galileo’s theory that the Earth revolves around the sun was treated as heresy by the Church.

11. Using an electron microscope, scientists have observed pig cells in the culture producing copies of the vital DNA.

12. A ground-breaking report written by a major group of scientists has indicated that many of the previously untraceable pollutants in stream water known to kill fish and harm humans come from polluted rain water and irresponsible chemical dumping by large corporations.

13. Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Bach’s Cello Suites as artistic masterpieces.

14. For members of the seventeenth-century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.

15. The first United States Solicitor General, Benjamin H. Bristow, was born in 1832 and served in the Grand administration from 1874 to 1876. Earlier in his life, Bristow served as a lieutenant colonel in the 25th Kentucky Infantry.

16. When I was Mom struggling through the door with the shopping, I remembered that I had promised to help her.

   700 Level

01. For some birds the sense of smell appears to play a role in navigation, since pigeons with surgically removed olfactory never have been found to have increased difficulty in homing.

02. Congress has enacted legislation that for the next three years forbids state and local governments to raise taxes on connections that link consumers to the Internet.

03. The guiding principles of the tax plan released by the Treasury Department could have even greater significance for the economy than do the particulars of the plan.

04. Some experts believe that the Sacagawea dollar coin will be used as a substitute for four quarters more than for the dollar bill because it weighs only 8.1 grams, far less than four quarters, which weigh 5.67 grams each.

05. According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the association of American medical colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas.

06. Despite what was hoped, the introduction of a sixty-five mile per hour speed limit is not reducing congestion on rural highways, nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for truck companies or less pollution from the decreased amount of time trucks speed on the road.

07. Unless the transplant involves identical twins, who have the same genetic endowment, all patients receiving hearts or other organs must take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives.

08. Many environmentalists believe that the widespread planting of trees, along with the conservation of existing forests, would be one of the surest, easiest and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air.

09. The greatest road system built in the Americas prior to arrival of Christopher Columbus, the Incan highway was over 2500 miles long, extending from northern Ecuador through Peru to Southern Chile.

10. According to a recent poll, graduating is still a top priority of the majority of college students, as it was of earlier generations.

11. Defense attorneys sometimes argue that their client’s misconduct stems from a side reaction to a drug medication, but if delinquent behavior is attributed to a side effect, the perpetrators are not forced to take responsibility for their actions.

12. According to some analysts, the continued rise in stocks reflects growing confidence that the economy will rebound from the depression that many had feared earlier in the year and instead gradually improve in the medium term.

13. Although many elderly citizens believe they are entitled to healthcare benefits in their old age, some fiscally conservative officials are quick to point out that healthcare benefits cost far more to provide than other retirement benefits do.

14. By the year 2008, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling’s gripping book portraying a young wizard’s struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, had around 200 million copies in print, more than that of almost any other English book ever written.

15. Unlike the argument from the company’s consultants, which rested on a questionable interpretation of a rule that only recently passed the FDA, the company management’s argument centered on what many legal experts consider a conservative interpretation of the FDA regulations.

16. Just as listening to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous fireside chats helps students of history understand the 1930s, an era marked by incredible domestic economic distress and unparalleled foreign conflict, so watching President Obama’s appearance on the Jay Leno show helps students grasp the recession, a time of immense challenge and strife.

17. Although she had been known as an effective legislator first in the Texas Senate and later in the United States House of Representatives, Barbara Jordan did not become a nationally recognized figure until 1974, when she participated the hearings on the impeachment of President Richard Nixon, which were televised nationwide.

18. In his Academy Award-nominated documentary “Super Size Me,” which pundits say pushed McDonalds to eliminate Super Size French Fries from their menu, Morgan Spurlock documents his fast-food binge eating, demonstrates his weight gain, and questions corporations’ moral and social responsibilities.

       OG 12 Video Explanations

    01. The Glass House Mountains in Queensland, Australia, were sighted in 1770 by the English navigator Capital James Cook, who so named them supposedly because their sheer wet rocks glistened like glass.

    02. Although a surge in retail sales has raised hopes that a recovery is finally under way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.

    03. Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying traditional Native American poetry in native languages.

    04. Of all the vast tides of migration that have swept through history, perhaps none was more concentrated than the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto American shores in little more than three decade.

    05. Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation’s third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.

    06. In late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors for cleaning and repair because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls.

    07. As its sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, the company has become increasingly willing to compete for the mass market sales it would in the past have conceded to rivals.

    08. The widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since.

    09. Like the Brontes and Brownings, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.

    10. Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.

    11. There are several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been to form the mud or clay into bricks, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, to lay them in the wall in mud mortar.

    12. Rising inventories, if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.

    13. A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be weak as some analysts previously thought.

    14. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the Sun but have never been sighted on the Sun’s poles or equator.

    15. Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, and create a special non-government organization to take charge of computer security planning.

    16. Retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in August, intensifying expectations that personal spending in the July-September quarter would more than double the 1.4 percent growth rate in personal spending for the previous quarter.

    17. The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or anything that has been synthesized.

    18. Plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.

    19. The Iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting.

    20. Unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.