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My parents’ warnings didn’t deter me from choosing the job of my dreams.

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Your start date will be February 20. You should report towork at 8:00 A.M. and check in with the Human resources department receptionist on the second floor. We will have you fill out some initial paperwork in the morning. Your manager will meet you at our office at 9:00A.M. and take you on a tour of the facilities, giving you an opportunity to meet many of the people you will be working with.____________, you are scheduled to attend a session with one of our human resources

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This updated production features the original music, with.......... songs by Tonya Moretti.

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Sessions will be held................ 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M and 1:00 P.M to 3:00 P.M on the above – mentioned dates.

 John and Mary are engaged. They are going to get __________. 

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Unless I miss my guess, your computer needs a new hard drive.

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I’ll never understand this,______________hard I try!

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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Many of the older buildings in this area have been torn down to make room for the_____ of the highway.

What did that man die                 ?  –A heart attack.

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_______ I visit him, we talk about politics a lot.

Feminism, collective term for systems of belief and theories that pay special (1) ________ to women's rights and women's position in culture and society. The term tends to be used for the women's rights movement, which began in the late 18th century and continues to campaign for complete political, social, and economic equality between women and men. This article (2)________specifically with the development of the ideas behind that movement and their  (3)____________and impact. 
Feminists are united by the idea that women's position in society is unequal to (4) ________of men, and that society is structured in such a way as to benefit men to the political, social, and economic (5) __________of women. However, feminists have used different theories to explain these (6) ____________ and have advocated different ways of redressing inequalities, and there are marked geographic and historical variations in the nature of feminism. 
Historically, feminist thought and activity can be divided into two waves. The first wave, which began in about 1800 and (7) _______until the 1930s, was largely concerned with gaining equal rights between women and men. The second wave, which began in the late 1960s, has continued to fight for (8) ______ but has also developed a (9)_______ of theories and approaches that stress the difference between women and men and that draw attention to the (10)_____ needs of women.
(6).........................

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Can the sales force …… its financial objectives?

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Nahan-Messer Publishing announced today the launch of a division dedicated to science  fiction.The division, Lightspeed Press, will publish twenty original titles this year. It will  be led by Clara Bryce, longtime fiction --------- at Nahan-Messer. 

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Please reply____________to the invitation for the software training.

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Peter ...... 13 films and I think his latest is the best.

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.
(7)......................

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
(9)........................

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The octopus__________ itself from larger fish by surrounding itself in a cloud of black ink. 

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Personnel changes within the marketing department …………no surprise, as it completely failed to meet the target on the most recent project.

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A large_____________of the tree broke off in the storm.