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The president has just realized that the launch of our new product must be postponed owing to unfavorable conditions in the market.

Women and children.............a right to live their lives free from all forms of violence and abuse, and society............. a duty to recognize and defend this right. 

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The company cafeteria menu has been improved and ________ features a  greater selection of healthy soups and salads. 

Lan ................ learning English a few years ago.

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

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Mr. Hahn and Ms. Smalls began working at ABCO Corporation at the same time, and ……… hope to be promoted next year.

Smoking is very…. to our health.

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Your room is mess! ..................... it up at once.

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

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The only thing your brother ....... now is trying to pass the exam.

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Would you mind ……. your name on this list?

Library and information science majors should be reminded of the seminar beginning…………at 6:00 p.m in room 212B

There are plenty of industrial _______ established in the area, which also makes the government worried about pollution.

Lan is really__________ about going to Singapore. 

If there is too____ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live.

Most of the students in that special school are making good progress, but Michael is a ____ case.

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I'm afraid you will ....... wait a long time.

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If you have not_________had the pleasure of dining at The Palace Garden Restaurant, 147.

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..................... the new office building is occupied, construction vehicles will not be allowed to use the main parking area.

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Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy (1) _______ historically revolves around extended trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan Singapore is one (2)_______ the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on export, refining, imported goods, especially in manufacturing. Manufacturing constituted twenty six (3) ________ of Singapore’s GDP in 2005. The manufacturing industry is well –diversified into electronic petroleum refining chemicals, (4) _______ engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10 percent of the world foundry water output. Singapore’s the busiest port in the world in terms of tonnage shipped. Singapore is The world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City (5) _______ Tokyo
(1)............................

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___________willingness to create customdesigned fabric has made local textile producer Desmond Finn very popular with movie-set designers.