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2.3 - Whether you hadn't told me about it or whether you had, I would still have found out.
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3.2 - The phrase "to cut off your nose to spite your face" means:
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3.3 - In what could be read as a strenuous effort to establish legal _____ for patent reform in the absence of any new legislation to achieve the same ends, the judgement overruled the jury's verdict and ruled a mistrial.
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3.4 - A system of (3.4) _____ representation would go some way towards ending the rotating bipartisan elective dictatorship that has favoured the major (3.5) _____ in recent times.
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4.1 - Rewrite the following sentence so that it contains the word "effect": "Your schooling plays a role in determining your choice of career."
4.2 - What personal qualities do you think a good transcriptionist possesses? Please answer in at least 100 words.
4.3 - Other than books related to religion, which book do you think has changed the world most, and why?
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