As ______ as this, there is the strength of the book as a tradition.

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A new restaurant …....   next week.

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The reporter’s weekly review on Hollywood stars and gossip was the network’s most popular show.

_________ in large quantities in the Middle East, oil became known as black gold because of the large profit it brought.

First he ................... as a salesman, then as a night clerk, and after that he quit his job and became a writer.

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Dear Ms. Hsu 

We are writing to inform you that your Brisbane Independent Daily Herald subscription  rate is about to change from $18.75 per month to $21.00 per month. We regret any  financial burden this may place on our subscribers, but ------- our rising operating costs,  we find the change unavoidable. 

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: My mouth is burning! This is …. spicy food that I don’t think I can finish it.

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From winning an Olympic gold medal in 2000 to becoming an NBA champion in 2008, Kevin Garnet has shown…………to be one of the most talented players.

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My father likes to be called a “senior citizen”, an old age _______.

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Franklin Catering Company offers a…. range of menu choices for both lunch and dinner.

Although she is rich, she is………..

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It is an occasion when strength and sports are tested, friendship and solidarity was built and deepened.

Surely there are now reasons why ____ book ought to be dead, or at least very badly injured.

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It is always advisable to verify departure times,________flight schedules may change after a ticket is issued.

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Funds raised by the local preservation society have helped ______ the historic  Jasenville train station.

The hospital has the best medical……………. and fast ambulances.  

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The new restaurant on Park Avenue has ------------- much excitement  because of the international reputation of its executive chef 

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We are able to determine how …….respond to advertisements for a wide range of products and services.

It was a disaster on the ______ of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions: 

 I clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.

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.
(7)......................