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A donkey____________ loudly all through the night.

Meanwhile, in China, pharmaceutical factories have been building up collections of antiques made from rhino horn, for the sole purpose of smashing them to powder to make the ___________ ingredient of many of their medicines.

As an adult, I'm independent _____ my parents financially.

She went on crying, with her head sunk into a pillow, and cried and cried _______ the pillow was wet through.

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Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order

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 Far more people ......... football on a Saturday afternoon than play it.

The man __________over there is my boyfriend. 

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.
(2)......................

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He made one last futile effort to convince her and left home.

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All employees working in the assembly area will be _____to take a course on machine operation.

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Cathy was wearing a black leather belt with a big silver__________.

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They will ........ an announcement soon.

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A lot of young college and university students .... helping poor people every summer.

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I am going to speak with the boss when the meeting _______.

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Ms. Gupta has requested_____________to use Berkeley Hall for the seminar series that will start next month.

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Current job ……. at Elite Insurance Company have been posted on the internal Web site and on major Internet job-search sites.

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The octopus__________ itself from larger fish by surrounding itself in a cloud of black ink. 

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Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy (1) _______ historically revolves around extended trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan Singapore is one (2)_______ the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on export, refining, imported goods, especially in manufacturing. Manufacturing constituted twenty six (3) ________ of Singapore’s GDP in 2005. The manufacturing industry is well –diversified into electronic petroleum refining chemicals, (4) _______ engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10 percent of the world foundry water output. Singapore’s the busiest port in the world in terms of tonnage shipped. Singapore is The world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City (5) _______ Tokyo
(4)............................

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Any students who neglects his or her homework is unlikely to do well at school.

She ............... the living room when she heard a strange noise in the kitchen. 

I saw him talking out something pointed in a ____ box.