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 Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each blank indicating that something is missing.  Choose the right word or set of words from the options and complete the  sentence. 
  
Example : 
  
Today’s small mobile phones contrast sharply with the earliest telephone instruments         which were -----.  
  
(A) unusual    (B) innovative    (C) useful      (D) useless     (E) cumbersome 
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