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1. Which of these words is a good choice to combine with GARLIC? (Please remember that regional variants are not included, we are looking for the standard term.)
2. Which of these combinations is the most *unlikely* in an English text?
3. 'A SLICE OF' can be combined with three of these words, but is very *unlikely* with which one?
4. Hope is an abstract reality but still we can speak of either a glimmer or a "sp____" of hope. Give the complete word.
5. We can speak of slips of paper, scraps of paper, sheets of paper, even pieces of paper, but when we mean a precise number of fresh sheets (now 500, formerly 480), as used by printers etc., we use the term: a _______ of paper.
6. Bananas come in:
7. Which of these words, when used as a quantity word, always suggests 'smell'?
8. From which of these materials might fashion either a wad or a plug?
9. There are various situations in which you might add a dash of some of these to a recipe, but which is the most likely word to be combined with 'a shot of'?
10. Which of these would *not* normally come in bars?
11. In which of these shapes does pure refined sugar normally *not* come?
12. You could speak of a TUFT OF in three of these cases, but normally *not* when referring to:
13. Which of these would, except in a figurative sense, not normally combine with 'BOOKS'?
14. In combination with which of these words would "'a chunk of' be a good alternative for a 'piece of'?
15. Which of these would you *not* normally store in casks?
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