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Have you been irritated by someone standing too close in line, talking too loud or making eye contact for too long? Or, they may have ______ you with the loud music from their earphones, or by taking up more than one seat on a crowded subway car. You feel unhappy because your personal space has been violated.
(A) offended
(B) controlled
(C) acquired
(D) supplied
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According to scientists, personal space involves certain invisible forces imposed on you through all the ______. For example, people may feel their space is being invaded when they experience an unwelcome sound, smell, or stare.
(A) angles
(B) events
(C) senses
(D) regions
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In certain situations such as in crowded subway cars or elevators, it is not always possible for people to keep their ______ distance from others. They learn coping strategies to deal with their discomfort.
(A) prefer
(B) preferring
(C) preferred
(D) being preferred
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For instance, people often avoid eye contact with someone standing ______ them, or they pretend that these people are lifeless objects in their personal space.
(A) long before
(B) close to
(C) aside from
(D) soon after
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Given the opportunity, they may ______ to a corner, putting distance between themselves and strangers. Or, they may sit or stand equidistant from one another like birds on a wire.
(A) retreat
(B) explore
(C) dispense
(D) connect
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Alan Turing was one of the leading scientific geniuses of the 20th century. Many scholars consider him the father of modern computer science. He was also the man who cracked the ______ uncrackable Enigma code used by Nazi Germany. His code-breaking turned the tide of World War II and helped save two million lives.
(A) eventually
(B) precisely
(C) concernedly
(D) supposedly
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Turing displayed signs of high intelligence in math and science at a young age. By the time he was 23, he had already come up with the idea of what ______ the modern computer-the Turing machine.
(A) would become
(B) should become
(C) could have become
(D) had become
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He was gay, which was then a crime in Britain. ______ being hailed as one of the crucial figures in defeating the Nazis, Turing was convicted of “gross indecency.”
(A) Because of
(B) Instead of
(C) In addition to
(D) With respect to
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This ______ drove him to commit suicide in 1954, at the age of 41. Nearly 60 years after his death, Queen Elizabeth II granted Turing a formal pardon for his conviction, upon an online petition signed by prominent scientists and technology leaders around the world.
(A) compromise
(B) procession
(C) humiliation
(D) supplement
