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Unit 1  3 down  3 other

 4 to  4 nothing
A  5 in  5 each
 1 knuckle down  6 to  6 one’s / your / our
 2 fell through  7 without  7 another
 3 Hang on  8 out  8 anything
 4 get ahead  9 back  9 much
 5 blown away 10 aback 10 Those / People
 6 pull … off
 7 breaking through C D
 8 came up against  1 are you doing  1 incredibly
 2 once he gets access to  2 barely
B  3 will have been taking  3 highly
 1 achieve  4 as soon as I get  4 wide
 2 digital  5 are giving  5 Ideally
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 3 insisted  6 wasn’t planning  6 uncomfortable

 4 discriminate  7 was going to shop  7 absolutely
 5 industrious  8 will not have finished  8 Oddly
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 6 solving
 7 realising D
 8 riches  1 will continue Unit 4
 9 failure  2 wouldn’t let A
10 revolution  3 will find
1a 2d 3b 4b 5c 6d 7a 8c
 4 am giving / will be giving
9b 10a
C  5 leave
1b 2c 3b 4a 5a 6b 7b 8c  6 will be lying
 7 will have already been using B
 8 was going to help / would help  1 without
D  2 by
me
 1 have been thinking  9 will be able to  3 in
 2 had been cheating 10 Shall I show  4 to
 3 was working  5 in
 4 am not coming  6 In
 5 Have you brought Unit 3  7 on
 6 look A  8 at
 7 had been cooking
 1 head
 8 had already made C
 2 tongue
 9 taught
 3 heart  1 Surely
10 revolves
 4 throats  2 As a matter of fact
11 was typing up
 5 lungs  3 After all
12 Have you decided
 6 feet  4 Quite honestly
 7 eye  5 Apparently
Unit 2  8 chin  6 naturally
 7 Still
A B  8 all in all
 1 blogger  1 harm
 2 validate  2 injured D
 3 personal  3 recover  1 to become
 4 directly  4 failing  2 delivering
 5 confirmation  5 terminal  3 to rehearse
 6 accessible  6 bruises  4 enjoying
 7 offensive  7 imbalance  5 releasing
 8 criticism  8 splitting  6 watching
 9 addictive  9 bodily  7 to pick up, watching
10 identity 10 internal  8 Growing up
 9 to watch
B C 10 do
 1 up  1 yourself

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 2 in  2 a

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Unit 5
A
Not For Sale  6 down
 7 to
 8 on
 8 I will / I’ll help
 9 had I finished
10 I knew
 1 genetically  9 over
 2 indigestion 10 up
 3 malnutrition 11 with Unit 8
 4 inactive 12 to A
 5 dietary  1 flea
 6 skimmed C  2 statement
 7 toppings 1a 2b 3a 4b 5b 6c 7c 8a  3 forked
 8 leftovers  4 crashed
 9 mouldy D  5 teller
10 helping  6 chipped
 1 could / would have shown
 2 can’t be  7 investment
B  3 needn’t have watered  8 owe
1d 2a 3d 4b 5c 6c 7a 8b  4 don’t have to do / don’t need  9 shares
9c 10b to do / needn’t do 10 prosperous
 5 will / may / might inspire
C  6 must have ended B

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 1 shall we  7 could / should / ought to have  1 line their own pockets
 2 won’t you told  2 tighten their belts
 3 do you / don’t you  8 must be  3 throwing money at it

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 4 do  4 throwing his money around
 5 haven’t they  5 have deep pockets
 6 isn’t it Unit 7  6 get your money’s worth
 7 am I A  7 on a shoestring
 8 am I not / aren’t I  1 industrial  8 in the money
 9 would  2 revolutionised
10 does  3 procedure C
 4 assembly 1b 2a 3b 4a 5c 6c 7c 8a
D  5 fraction
 1 fight it off  6 assumption D
 2 came up against a few  7 motivation  1 he did was turn
 3 warm it up  8 maintenance  2 thing you should do is
 4 takes after his father  9 operation  3 place where I shop
 5 put up with 10 automatically  4 being able to keep
 6 throw it up 11 productivity / production  5 wiped out
 7 their plans fell through 12 properly  6 was the weekend when
 8 picking at your food  7 need to do is
 9 to pull it off B  8 reason why I am going
10 polished it off  1 edge
 2 button
Unit 9
Unit 6  3 science
 4 printer A
A  5 stick  1 music
 1 fair  6 years  2 canary
 2 migrated  7 wires  3 dance
 3 elements  8 wheel  4 tune
 4 soil  9 engine  5 praises
 5 mine 10 recycle  6 song
 6 sufficient  7 ears
 7 drilling C  8 trumpet
 8 harvest 1a 2c 3c 4b 5a 6b 7c 8a
 9 pollute B
10 reliance D  1 backing
 1 did we know  2 debut
B  2 he wouldn’t be  3 tastes
 1 down  3 you had told  4 lead
 2 up  4 have I felt  5 mainstream
 3 of  5 you will / you’ll be able to  6 read
 4 against  6 Should you encounter  7 performing
 5 up  7 would you do  8 high

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  9 lyrics D Unit 12
10 opening  1 are being sued / have been
11 copies sued A
12 set  2 have been trespassed / are  1 guns
being trespassed  2 killing
C  3 was developed  3 secret
 1 the greatest  4 can be downloaded  4 cash
 2 best  5 was first launched  5 pockets
 3 higher  6 can be seen  6 intelligence
 4 more  7 are superimposed  7 posterity
 5 most famous  8 are not being respected  8 breakthroughs
 6 the longest  9 have also been asked  9 eternity
 7 more 10 have been accused 10 recognition
 8 faster 11 have been modified
 9 the largest B
10 the most influential  1 about
Unit 11  2 perpetual
D A  3 outcome
 1 was so well written that  1 hurdle  4 hunch
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 2 got such great reviews that  2 corner  5 speculate

 3 so few good songs in  3 ball  6 shape
 4 not talented enough to get  4 catch  7 coming
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 5 was just big enough  5 run  8 to

 6 too little space  6 court  9 holds
 7 was not well enough  7 missed 10 inevitable
 8 such a pity  8 gate 11 of
 9 pull 12 educated
10 bull’s eye
Unit 10 C
A B 1a 2b 3c 4a 5a 6c 7b 8a
 1 run myself to the ground 1c 2a 3a 4b 5b 6a 7c 8c
 2 had hit rock bottom D
 3 we get by C  1 neither accepted nor refused
 4 to bounce back  1 offered to show me the way  2 nor did he
 5 burn the candle at both ends  2 to know when I had taken  3 Karen nor Sam was able to
 6 we pull together as a family  3 warned me not to attempt  4 either the film or the book was
 7 really wearing me down  4 asked if we should watch  5 despite finding them
 8 ever come up against  5 encouraged me to try out  6 is not close enough
 9 could do without electricity  6 apologised for being  7 too high for him to
10 keep his head above water  7 wanted to know if I had  8 either / one of your parents
11 to throw in the towel  8 suggested playing some
 9 promised to teach me
B 10 accused me of cheating
 1 metropolitan 11 reminded me to take my
 2 obsessively
 3 solitude D
 4 interaction  1 to become
 5 sociable  2 had been dating
 6 susceptibility  3 had not been expecting / had
 7 irritable not expected
 8 addiction  4 had warned
 9 recovery  5 had been planning
10 pricey  6 trying
 7 belittled / was belittling
C  8 getting
 1 need  9 winning
 2 installed 10 had simply been shouting
 3 have moved 11 made
 4 got 12 does it matter
 5 treated
 6 have been
 7 redecorated

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 8 served

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