Firstly, we have more leisure time than we ______ to, and people are generally living longer, which means there is more time to do more (including reading books).

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After a three-hour search, the missing ...... girl was found alive and well.

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After remaining high for several days, temperatures finally fell__________yesterday.

In summary, for most visitors, the Japanese are _______ and difficult to understand.

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Among ASEAN's _______ greatest challenges are the integration of market diversity and the transitional economies of its member countries.

Tattooing is an old art. In ancient Greece, people who had tattoos were regarded as members of the _____ classes.

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_________her experience in sales, Ms Woo has a background in public relations.

 ______, he did not receive respect from the people.

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I’m not quite sure I understand completely. Could you be a bit more___________?

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pleased the clients most was the effective customer service Morandon___________Bank provided.

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Minnesota’s thousands of lakes ...... over 4,000 square miles.

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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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: 

Fruit and vegetables grew in abundance on the island. The islanders even exported the surplus.

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You have to sleep under a net to avoid being bitten by_____________.

Up to now, ASEAN has got ten _____________.

However, some graduates actually like the idea of ______ a career in teaching English long-term, and there are numerous courses at various levels of teaching, from the fast-track TEFL to a diploma or masters.

They say he inherited his money from a _________ relative he had never met.

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

Lan is really__________ about going to Singapore. 

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If he is careful, he .......... get good marks.

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John finds saying “I love you” ......Jenny the hardest thing to do.