The phrasal verb “To get rid of” is:
Choose the letter that is not according to the announcement.
Text I
Sally Strawberry and Billy Pineapple
Sally Strawberry, daughter of Candy and Bob Strawberry of Smallville, Got tingham, was married today to Billy Pineapple, the son of Olivia and Chuck Thinner of Big Rock, Illinois, at Holy Spirit Church in Smallville.
The bride and groom, both 33, work for Ace Life Insurance. The bride is a lawyer and the groom is a computer programmer.
The bride graduated from Harvard Law School. Her father is a retired truck driver and her mother is a teacher at Child World, a pre-school in Smallville.
The groom graduated from the University of Illinois. His father, who is retired, was a doctor. His mother is a retired architect.
The bride and groom met on a blind date.
Complete the dialogue below by choosing the right option:
A: They_________air traffic controllers.
B: Really? So, what________their jobs?
A: He________a waiter and she________ a bank manager.
Text II
Brazil elects on the national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a four-year term by the people. The National Congress has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies has 513 members, elected for a four -year term by proportional representation. The Federal Senate has 81 members, elected for an eight-year term, with elections every four years for alternatively one-third and two-third of the seats. Brazil has a multi-party system, with such numerous parties that often no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and so they must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Read the text below and choose the right alternative:
What is this text about?
Text III
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No incumbents
The 2008 election marked the first time since the 1952 election that neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate in the general election, and the first time since the 1928 election that neither one sought his party's nomination for president. The incumbent President, George W. Bush, was serving his second and final term and was barred from running again by the term limits in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vice President Dick Cheney chose not to seek the presidency. From 2001, Cheney frequently stated he would never run for President: "I will say just as hard as I possibly know how to say...If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
In the three previous two-term Presidential administrations — those of Dwight D. Eisenhower , Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — the incumbent vice president had immediately thereafter run for president. Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election, George H. W. Bush won the 1988 election, and Al Gore lost the 2000 election. The 2008 election was the first in which the sitting Vice President was not a candidate for either the presidency or the vice presidency since Nelson Rockefeller in 1976.
According to the text and its context,
The word “term” can be replaced by:
Text III
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No incumbents
The 2008 election marked the first time since the 1952 election that neither the incumbent President nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate in the general election, and the first time since the 1928 election that neither one sought his party's nomination for president. The incumbent President, George W. Bush, was serving his second and final term and was barred from running again by the term limits in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vice President Dick Cheney chose not to seek the presidency. From 2001, Cheney frequently stated he would never run for President: "I will say just as hard as I possibly know how to say...If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
In the three previous two-term Presidential administrations — those of Dwight D. Eisenhower , Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — the incumbent vice president had immediately thereafter run for president. Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election, George H. W. Bush won the 1988 election, and Al Gore lost the 2000 election. The 2008 election was the first in which the sitting Vice President was not a candidate for either the presidency or the vice presidency since Nelson Rockefeller in 1976.
According to the text and its context,
The phrase “run for President” can be replaced by: