No other national cuisine enjoys quite the degree of popularity that Thai food ______ . Ten years ago it was a rarity in Europe and the United States and prior ____ that it was virtually unknown.
DOES TO
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Some of the ingredients come from far afield. Chillies, to give ____ one example, are originally from Central and South America but were incorporated quickly ____ the national diet.
JUST/BUT INTO
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rocket
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gift
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baam
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However, unlike these situations, _____ are generally positive, sitting in a train that is running late, ______stuck in a traffic jam or working to a tight deadline are much harder to manage.
WHICH BEING
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______ is startling to note is that this period, _____ predates the invention of writing, accounts for 99% of human existence.
WHAT WHICH
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One recent theory is that human beings have evolved in _____ a way that we are programmed for language from the moment of birth.
SUCH
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As _____ as the growing popularity of Thai restaurants throughout the world, there has been an increase little by little _____ the availability of ingredients on supermarket shelves.
WELL IN
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This is the case _____ the fact that there is ____ written evidence of the period we term pre-history.
DESPITE NO
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shark
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Language ____ well be programmed into the brain but, _____ this, people still need stimulus from others around them.
MAY/COULD/MIGHT DESPITE
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The research shows, if _____ else, that language is a social activity, not something invented _____ isolation
LITTLE/NOTHING IN
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gold
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shark
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Stress is now recognised ____ a medical problem and as a signficant factor _____ causing coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and a high cholesterol count.
AS IN
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Did we all start talking at around the same time _____ of the manner _____ which our brains had begun to develop?
BECAUSE IN
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All these situations produce stress but _____ you can control it and not the other way around, you will feel stimulated, not worn ____ .
IF/PROVIDED OUT
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In _____ words, language came about ______ a result of an evolutionary change in our brains at some stage.