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Every year thousands of young people do short periods of work in other countries ........ the time they leave school and start university.
BETWEEN
...... a personal point of view, it gives them a sense of independence and confidence. It may also help them with their long-term career.
FROM
...... than being an extended holiday, our placements involve learning to take responsibility for themselves.
RATHER
Doing a work placement will add value to a CV, helping young people to ....... out from the crowd in the job market.
STAND
When ..... comes to online security, we all know what we ought to do: choose a different random set of letters and numbers for every email account.
IT
But hardly ....... chooses a different password for each account, because memorising them all is impossible.
ANYONE/ANYBODY
So we use the same familiar words for every account, ...... a pet's name or, even worse, the word 'password'.
LIKE
Even if we opt ...... a random group of letters such as 'fnwbdfiw', there is now software available which enables a hacker to get your password in less than 3 hours.
FOR
By increasing your password to twenty random letters, you increase a hacker's guessing time to 6.5 thousand trillion centuries. The problem is that you would ...... no chance of remembering it!
HAVE/STAND
The solution is to come up with three or four short, unrelated words and work ....... a way to remember them. Easy!
OUT/ON
There's ....... worse than being exhausted, but needing to be awake and alert at three in the morning.
NOTHING
When you are a doctor, you can't falter because you're responsible ...... the lives of many people.
FOR
...... the 1980's onwards, theorists identified a number of learning styles that suited them.
FROM
Over time these concepts have fallen out of favour. They're ..... longer up to date.
NO
Taking a flexible approach ...... than sticking to one particular learning style makes better sense.
RATHER
Research shows that ..... of the best ways to learn something is to imagine teaching it.
ONE
