Web www.englishdaily626.com   [ Movie Reviews | Common Sentences | Glossary of Correct Usage | High School Vocab | Questions & Answers | Sample Letters ] [ Movies Lines | Advertisements | Words Differentiation | Common Errors | Songs | Links ] <<Prev Train your ear Next>>     TOEFL Vocabulary   English Daily Conversation   Learn grammar by example   Learn American idioms       837.mp3 The CFO of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac was found dead in his suburban Washington home Wednesday. Authorities say David Kellermann apparently hanged himself. Neighbors say he'd lost a noticeable amount of weight _____1_____ of a promotion last September when top officials at Freddie Mac were ousted. Sales are sluggish and inventory is piling up. And that means General Motors may be planning to ___2___ some plants. Three people briefed on the plan say the struggling automaker is planning to temporarily shut down most of its US factories for up to nine weeks this summer. A Tennessee man who raped and ___3___ the South Carolina college student with her own bikini top was sentenced to die Wednesday. Jerry Buck Inman, 38, showed no reaction when Circuit Court Judge Edward Miller said he should die for killing Tiffany Marie Souers. The FDA says 17-year-olds will now be able to buy the "morning after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription. Conservatives ___4___ the decision as a blow to parental supervision of teens.       Answers   1. under the strain 2. idle ( to pass time without working ) 3. strangled ( to kill someone by pressing their throat so that they cannot breathe ) 4. denounced ( to criticize strongly and publicly )     800   801   802   803   804   805   806   807   808   809   810   811   812   813   814   815   816   817   818   819   820   821   822   823   824   825   826   827   828   829   830   831   832   833   834   835   836   837   838   839   840   841   842   843   844   845   846   847   848   849   850   851   852   853   854   855   856   857   858   859   860   861   862   863   864   865   866   867   868   869   870   871   872   873   874   875   876   877   878   879   880   881   882   883   884   885   886   887   888   889   890   891   892   893   894   895   896   897   898   899   900   901   902   903   904   905   906   907   908   909   910   911   912   913   914   915   916   917   918   919   920   921   922   923   924   925   926   927   928   929   ( Nov 20 ) Train your ear 1       Common English mistakes   Ancient Chinese stories   Learn English Proverbs   American Slang expressions

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