Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
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The aims of the Association of Southeast Asia include the evolvement of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, and the promotion of regional peace.

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He fell off his bike, ……. three teeth.

The ____ for this position starts at thirty thousand euros per year.

Why ................at me like that? What’s the matter?

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________repeated delays in construction, the new supermarket was finished in time for the start of business.

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The valley ......... the village locates is heavily polluted.

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Several brands have replied and questioned the methods used in the study and they said that the number of plastics evaluated was exaggerated.

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The bomb exploded in the garage; fortunately no one hurt.

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If you are going to give a talk, it is important when you can get to the end to have a strong_____________.

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The story was that of a little girl who was bom in a well-to-do family and was a top performer in her studies.

From winning an Olympic gold medal in 2000 to becoming an NBA champion in 2008, Kevin Garnet has shown…………to be one of the most talented players.

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Employees at Thompson Labs must wear all the protective gear shown on the poster at the lab entrance,............. safety regulations.

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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This is a difficult topic. Please, explain it in plain language.

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Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order

We’re waiting for him to make up his mind. I wish he’d be more ......................

I went to Belgium last month. I ............... there before. It's a beautiful country. 

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The number of rhinos is in steady decline. There are fewer rhinos than ever before.

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I didn’t know ............... that machine.