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Because she felt that the tourism video appeared to have been -------- made,  Ms Peppin recommended that it be filmed again. 

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Mr. Daniels has mentioned............... to retire from the board in November, but so far, a successor has not been named.

_______ I realized where I was.

This habit has become necessary because social changes today take place with increasing speed and ______ the lives of more and more people.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Now that the war is over may there be a …… peace between our nations.

_________ one hand on the steering wheel, Ann opened a can of soda pop with her free hand.

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If you are caught coming into the country as an illegal immigrant, you will be  ___________.

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Despite our ........, we are still good friends.

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He ................. being given a receipt for the bill he had paid.

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The production will begin on January 2 at 8 P.M and will........... local actor Bert Derby in the lead role.

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

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)......................

______ dead no longer need ______ help. We must concern ourselves with ______ living.

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
(5).........................

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: 

Fruit and vegetables grew in abundance on the island. The islanders even exported the surplus.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Robert will enjoy skiing more the next time he goes to Mt Helens ….. he has had skiing lessons.

Building _______ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. 

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His ideas about the future of the company did not___________with those of the chairman. 

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Even as a child Thomas Edison had a very inquisitive mind; at the age of three he performed his first experiment.

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.
(1)...................

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A new restaurant …....   next week.