I don't like those trousers, no matter how …………………….. they are.

He made an ………. for the position of manager.

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Brunei Darussalam was _________  second member state after Singapore to ratify the Charter on 31 January 2008.

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He can swim and ................. can I.

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He looked at the stars____________a telescope.

He was especially interested in such _____ work, and had recently helped to organize the first Brazilian school for deaf-mutes at Rio de Janeiro.

Babies separate well in the first six months, but soon after that they start to get a crush on Mum and close family  _____. 

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Would you be so kind ....... the window? It’s stuffy here.

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When you realized you may have difficulty arranging last month’s conference, you should have told me so that I could have gotten more people to volunteer.

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............... is the ancestor of most types of domestic ducks is well documented.

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That man over there seems ............ for someone.

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I’m becoming increasingly absent–minded. Last week, I locked myself out of my house twice.

Employees at NC media co., Ltd…………donate to local charities by hosting Fund-raising parties.

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We must do all that are ............. by law. 

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___________phoned while I was out, did they? I’m expecting an important call from the United States.

Rice is the _______ exported product of Vietnam.

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As tourism is more developed, people worry about the damage to the flora and fauna of the island.

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The cost of ............ is very high in big cities.

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The full report on the company’s budget decisions will not be available until the end of the week, but a_________memo will be issued sometime today.

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Mr. Thomas has not_____________decided which design to use for the company letterhead.

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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