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This is the best book I ........... .

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The US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.

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Employees currently working in Ridge Manufacturing's branch offices will move into the new headquarters ---------- the building is finished.

The author.................quite annoyed when she ............that the publisher was very dishonest. 

As recently as 1958 about half of the public schools in the United States had no libraries at all. The _______of public school libraries increased dramatically when the federal government passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which provided funds for school districts to improve their education programs and facilities, including their libraries.

We are trying to control the                 of the dollar on the world’s money markets.

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____________project manager, Ms. Chung will be directly responsible to the company president.

Finding a cure for cancer will be a huge ………….breakthrough for mankind.

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The ---------- will go into effect on 1 May. 

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I’m sure the earth will have very few resources left____________.

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Our chief operating officer was very____________by the latest sales figures.

Newer branches can be opened worldwide…………we can properly translate our marketing goals.

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

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The researchers then_________the test subjects’ reactions. Factors like memory retention and 

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Flash photography is not permitted......................... the Sakura Museum of Art.

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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Despite________declines in revenue over the past six months, the Mori& McGee firm intends to hire three new patent laywers next year.

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When he left school, my brother decided to ..... a priest instead of studying language.

A long time ago, this part of the town used to be a place where people came to relax and get away from their stress. Although this was …............... a shelter for people to escape, it has now become a chaotic and noisy market area.

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
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