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Salvador Gomez worked__________ in planning the festival, and he deserves much of the credit for its success.

The head of the department__________ the banquet room for a party should submit a required form to the Catering Department. 

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Jones _______ after everyone _______.

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.
(10)......................

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---------- about the actual cost of the project have delayed the plans for expanding the  arena. 

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The Empire Theatre box office will stop selling tickets fifteen minutes…........ the beginning of the show.

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Is he really ................ that you can’t come there.

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The exper_______spoke at last month's seminar on environmental awareness has been nominated for a Flagler Price.

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Ms. Anderson is ……… knowledgeable in the fields of international and financial law, and we feel very fortunate to have her with us.

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The little girl can't stand ....... made fun of by her classmates.

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.
(10)..........................

I envy you. At five tomorrow you ............ some tan on the beach at the seaside. 

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Thank you for booking the flights for me on such short notice; I received the travel itinerary this morning. Unfortunately, Mr. Park............... our meeting in Seoul, so my flight and hotel reservations will need to be changed.

Be prepared! No  _____ how good the childcare may be, some children are going to protest wildly if they are left.

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I haven't seen her ....... she was a little girl.

He _______on a serious relationship at a very young age; naturally, it ended in tears.

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: 

Those who advocate for doctor-assisted suicide say the terminally ill should not have to suffer.

…………the city council has approved the urban renewal project, we need to recruit several new workers.

Identify the underlined word/phrase (A or B, C,D) that needs correcting to become an exact one.

Can you tell me what you have done at 8 o’clock last night?

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She is busy ........ for her wedding.

Make sure you ............ the electricity before you ...............mending this light switch.