Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

By the time Ms. Valspar retires as president of Movene Technologies, she………to increase the company's market share significantly.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant or insect dies (1) ...... forever. If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become (2) ...... twenty years from now.
The seas are in (3) ........ They are being filled with poison, industrial and nuclear (4) ......., chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already nearly dead. The North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing will be able to live in the seas.
The tropical rain forests, which are the (5) ...... of half the earth's living things (including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it, they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (6) ...... on the world's climate and on our agriculture and food supplies, will be disastrous.
Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund was (7) ...... - a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals and plants from extinction.
Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35 million for conservation projects, and has created or given (8) ...... to National Parks in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds, including the tiger, to (9) ........ Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money - and if more governments wake up to what is happening -perhaps the World Wildlife Fund will be able to help US to avoid the disaster that (10) ...... the natural world, and all of US will be with it.
(2)..................

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: 

He is someone we can respect and look up to. but he's not so high above us that we feel low and downtrodden.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

The energy commission has suggested that constructing roofs in a lighter, more reflective color will_________reduce the amount of heat in urban areas.

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

Unless I miss my guess, your computer needs a new hard drive.

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.

Mahayana Buddhism is the main religion in China, Japan, Korea, and much of Vietnam.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

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

As recently as 1958 about half of the public schools in the United States had no libraries at all. The _______of public school libraries increased dramatically when the federal government passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which provided funds for school districts to improve their education programs and facilities, including their libraries.

Opera singer Maria Callas was known for her ________, powerful voice.

The coach takes every opportunity to _______ his players, yet he ignores every opportunity to praise them.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

The effective use of landscaping makes the difference between  having a real garden and --------------- a collection of plants.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

The shopping centre is easily______________from the motorway.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and what is its purpose? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a multilateral organization which was (1) _____ to give Southeast Asian states a forum to communicate (2) _____ each other. Since the region had a long colonial past and a history of endemic warfare, there has never been much peaceful and constructive (3) _____ between kings, presidents and other officials. A neutral forum was, (4) _____, a very useful development for all of those countries. ASEAN was formed as a result of the Bangkok (5) _____ of 1967 and initially had five members: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, (6) _____ Philippines and Singapore. Brunei (7) _____ joined in 1984 after it had won independence from Britain. Vietnam became the seventh member of the group, officially joining in 1995. (8) _____ several years of negotiation, Myanmar and Laos joined in 1997 and the final member of the ten, Cambodia, joined in 1999. The only (9)__ state in Southeast Asia which is not a member of ASEAN is now East Timor. It is still (10) _____ vulnerable and fragile to be able to participate for the foreseeable future.
(5)..........................

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Please note that any changes to your reservation should be made at least three days prior to your............... at the hotel.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

I would highly recommend it. This local establish presents its guests with an especially relaxing dining experience. In the main door, diners_________on large

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

By the time Clear Blaze Technology's word processing program  goes on the market,software engineers ------------- its remaining flaws. 

Detroit is renowned for the _____________ car

Choose the best answer:

This mobile phone is out of ..........

If you want a career in teaching English then definitely find one designed for that _______, like an MA or diploma; but if you want to travel around the world, then do a shorter course which will supply you with teaching skills. 

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.
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