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It is estimated that no more than 200 Siberian tigers ...... in the wild.

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He hadn’t eaten anything since morning. He took the food eagerly.

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He’s not crazy, he’s just a bit_____________ , that’s all.

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All of us young people should do our best to contribute to .............. the country.

The letter from Ms. Win seems to have disappeared without a…………

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You ....... at the meeting yesterday. Why were you absent?

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Dr. Weisman, who served for 25 years as an…...... part of the research team, will retire on March 30.

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There will be time for panicipants to discus__________issue presented in the seminar.

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He___________his life to the skill of the surgeons.

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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I plan to drop the templates off to you in person, at which time I‘d like to talk to you about any……… you feel are necessary.

Although it is true that some people in the neighborhood supported the expansion of the market a few years ago, now most of them…........…that it has gotten out of control and created many serious problems for the area.

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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.
(2)..........................

Tom felt so __________ that he went bed early.

He … to school when he had a puncture. 

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Director Jun Iwata auditioned twenty actors before making the ________  decision about whom to cast in the main role.

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Taiwan Kritwear Corporation’s board of directors ________ for two hour  yesterday to review the annual report. 

Today many species of plant and animal are in ________ of extinction.
 

The 8th ASEAN Science and Technology Week is now being _______ in Manila from 1 to 11 July 2008.

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.

You need to figure out how many calories you need in a day and how many you actually ______.