In my  ________, a person travelling alone sometimes meets with unexpected hospitality, and this trip was no exception.

 ______, he did not receive respect from the people.

A cycle track leads  ________ town and down to Ribe, where I spent my first night.

All this changed with the growth of factories and industry in the nineteenth century, first in Europe and  ______. In the USA.

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It has been a secret for many years, but I am going to break the seal now.

Americans believe that education is important at all stage of life and should not stop ________ people get their first job. About 40% of adults take part in some kind of formal education.

The man __________over there is my boyfriend. 

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Our country is trying its best to accelerate the rate ___ economic growth.

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The Global Marketing Manager is required to travel  extensively and so must be ------- to unfamiliar situations. 

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I didn’t think his the comments were very appropriate at the time.

Secondary rainbows are unusual because the light is reflected twice within the raindrop before it ________ a rainbow, so the colors are in reverse order and not as bright as primary rainbows.

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The works of such men as the English philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes helped pave the way for academic freedom in the modern sense.

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.
(2)......................

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After reviewing the training program for new sales staff, Mr. Vance concluded that more…… should be placed on networking skills.

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I wish I ............ so much money when I was in town yesterday.

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John, ....... that his girlfriend went out with another guy, decided to say goodbye to her.

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I need your ........ to repair the roof.

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When he served as President of Delvan Manufacturing, Pierre Dunn ________  several policies that transformed the company. 

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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_______leaving Tokyo on June 15, I need to leave on the thirteenth and return on the sixteenth.

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Dr. Weisman, who served for 25 years as an…...... part of the research team, will retire on March 30.