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pleased the clients most was the effective customer service Morandon___________Bank provided.

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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. 

The Avicenna Partnership is a ___ company with a long and successful sales history.

The environmental group hopes ______ the forest to its original condition by the end of the decade.

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A 15 percent increase in worker……..at the Isis Corporation is largely due to a recent investment in 25 new packaging machines.

Being successful does depend on luck, to a certain extent. But things are more likely to _______ well if you persevere and stay positive.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: When …… a dictionary, you need to be able to understand the symbols and abbreviations it contains.

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Under the direction of James Pak, the orchestra has become one of the most highly------- performing arts groups in the region. 

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Executives  from  the  two  firms  may soon  be ready to__________the terms of the proposed merger.

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We missed the end of “Get out”. Can you give us a brief              of the plot?

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  While …… to help Tom with his math, I got impatient because he wouldn’t pay attention to what I was saying.

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Duties have been divided................. among the town council committee members.

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The financial challenges facing the town council must be addressed_________by its elected leaders.

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He wondered who was going to pay for the .................. window.

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I  prefer tea ...... coffee, what about you?

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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Then you can replay the video to help a doctor  _____ your illness, or to prove to your employer that you really, were sick.

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Have you finished ....... the dishes? I need you to help me with my homework.

While she _______ breakfast, I set the table.

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He was furious …… his girlfriend …….out with his closest friend in the football team.

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: 

Maria will take charge of the advertising for the play.