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We are too late. The plane ........ off ten minutes ago.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  …..Paul brings the money for our lunch, we’ll go right down to the cafeteria.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word (s) in each of the following questions.

When the body is stressed or frightened, adrenaline travels throughout all parts of the body in the blood, keeping energy levels high.

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He laughed _________ when he was watching “Tom and Jerry” on TV.

We didn't see it through because of the __________film. 

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: 

When you consider all the advantages you've gained I think you'll admit you had a good run for your money.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Farming_____not interesting to Jam.

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ASEAN economic cooperation _______ many areas, such as agriculture, industry, services, transportations, and tourism.

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We guarantee privacy and__________when it comes to the information in your résumé. 

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Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN _________  its sixth member soon after assuming her full independence in January 1984.

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, ______ in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. 

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The ensemble consists _________ four members who have been performing  together since last August.

If you must pass under a ladder, you can avoid bad luck by crossing your fingers and keeping them crossed until you have seen a dog.  ______, you may lick your finger and make a cross on the toe of your shoe, and not look again at the shoe until the mark has dried

Use the word at the end of each gap to form a new word with which to fill the gap: 
‘It is simply this. That Space, as our __(1)___ (MATH) have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call __(2)___ (LONG), Breadth, and __(3)___ (THICK), and is always definable by __(4)___ (REFER) to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why THREE dimensions ___(5)__ (PARTICULAR) - why not another direction at right angles to the other three?-and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three _(6)____ (DIMENSION) solid, and _(7)____ (SIMILAR) they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four-if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?’
(6)..................

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The announcement of John Stanton's retirement was not well received by most of the staff members, but Leslie, his long time friend and colleague, was extremely …….to hear that Mr Stanton will now be able to enjoy some leisure time.

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The teacher considers letting one of her students stay at home ……. her biggest mistake.

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.
(5)...........................

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.
(4)......................

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The Reyes Regional Theater will raise ticket prices this year          the expense of a new sound and lighting system.

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Mr Power said he ........... to see James immediately.

 The weather this summer is really __________.