A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, started in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen by chance. It was the  ______ of changes in the way people lived in those places at that time.

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The mail office will soon be able to send out packages more---------- because of the updated processing procedures. 

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The Asian Games have advanced in all aspects since the first Games was help in 1951.

The stock market has risen ……….in the last six months and now is a good time to invest.

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Data obtained from our research has helped our clients determine which advertising methods are likely to generate income and which may need to be revised. Having reviewed this information, companies can then refine their advertising strategies ……..

If, ________, someone advises you to revise your work and gives you a good reason for doing so, you should consider their suggestions carefully.

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When you are ........ orbit, you will be able to walk  ............. the wall.

Obviously, if children are bent over their computer for hours, _____ in some game, instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong.

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Noted author Neha Dehuri will be signing copies of her…......... acclaimed book,

The Forgotten, on Sunday at the Gloucester University Bookstore.

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The career-development seminar are open to both part-time____________full-time employees.

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Kristi Driver is a well-know therapist in the area of sports medicine and her sevices are very …… priced

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Lan and her family had a _________ to their home village. 

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On White Valentine, Japanese girls give chocolates ........ their boyfriends.

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Melbourne Motors has succeeded in............... positive publicity for its new line of ecologically friendly automobiles.

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Passengers on the aircraft are asked to secure ------- belongings during take off and landing.

It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says 'please' and 'thank you' in the right places is (1) ______ miracle of science , but recognizing the words that make up norm al, continuous human speech is another (2)________
Not until now have computer been programmed to (3) _____to a range of spoken commands. Until recently it was thought that computers would have tobe programmed to the accent and speech hahits of each user, and only then would be able to respond (4) _____to their master's or mistress's voice. Now rapid progress is being made (5) ______ systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker.
The IBM Tangora system, under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (6) ______ a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can make informed guesses as to (7) ______ is a likely sentence. That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules, but also with an analysis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.
On the (8) _______of this information, the machine can calculate the probability of one particular word following another. Statistical probability is necessary for computers to interpret not only speech but also (9) ______ data.
Security systems can distinguish between faces they have been taught to recognize, but never has a computer been able to match a human's ability to make sense of a three-dimensional scene (10) ______ identifying all objects in it.
(10)......................

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The Joseph Wellington Library would like to thank all donors for their_______ during the recent fundraising campaign.

Whenever my little sister …, all of us will run to her. 

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Duties have been divided................. among the town council committee members.

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Nobody knows the origin of the Vietnamese long dress. There was no evidence about where and when it appeared.

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Tomorrow I’ll have an interview, can you give some_________.