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

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Could you ............. me ten pounds until next payday?

ASEAN has _______ population of 575.5 million.

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It’s a beautiful coat, but I’m afraid of it doesn’t_____________ me. It’s too small.

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She’s got the_____________to do well.

Another common superstition is that it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house - it will either bring  misfortunate to the person who opened it or to the whole ______.

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Simon says he____________ giving up studying French in school, as now he has been offered a job in France.

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

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

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Ms. Atembe of Hartwick Trucking will conduct a workshop on the best ways to…… customers' concerns about freightdelivery.

They say he inherited his money from a _________ relative he had never met.

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Please respond to this e-mail and let me know what equipment you will need for your presentation. I can reserve an electronic whiteboard, a digital projector, screens, and microphones,_____________other things.

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Personnel changes within the marketing department …………no surprise, as it completely failed to meet the target on the most recent project.

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When we were talking about relaxing after work, Jack said he enjoyed to listen to music, Carla said she preferred jogging, and I was considering taking up tennis.

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.
(5)..................

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.
(1)......................

Children are__________ with these horror films. 

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After their catastrophic defeat the_____________of the army made their way back to their mountain strong holds.

I feel so __________ and sleepy today because I worked late last night. 

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We believe that the popularity of …………products is the result of a combination of beauty and functionality.

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