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VI. Choose the word or phrase that needs correction.
1. I pretended reading the note a moment longer, giving myself a chance to come up with
something.
A
B
C
D
2. Women have a lot of good business skills and abilities despite they tend to underrate
A
themselves.
B
C
D
3. Please don't take this personal, but would you mind leaving us alone for a few moments?
A
B
C
D
4. Are you enough self-motivated to keep working toward a goal without day-to-day
encouragement?
A
B
C
D
5. If you have trouble lying awake worrying about things, try to make a to-do list before
you go to bed.
D
A
B
C
6. Although she was quite young, she showed a lot of initiative and was promoting to
A
B
manager after a year.
C
D
7. She had promised to not talking, and nothing we could do would get the information
out of her.
D
A
B
C