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Nobody knows the origin of the Vietnamese long dress. There was no evidence about where and when it appeared.

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You had better ........ this bus. Going by taxi is too expensive.

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We guarantee privacy and__________when it comes to the information in your résumé. 

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Because Legolos Company recognizes the importance of protecting  customer information, it has made data privacy a high -----------.

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

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Its important to keep your computer skills___________.

The robbers packed the diamonds into a suitcase and ___ in a van that waited for them in the street.

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

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.
(1)...................

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.
(5)......................

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One day ........ the moon lasts ............... two weeks.

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

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I don’t like that boy because there is a ...... look on his face.

 I usually ............. to work by bus. It takes me about forty minutes to get to work by bus.

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There is no alternative. The president must approve the bill if the Congress passes it

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Long has decided ……. a cooking course.

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The ASEAN Investment Area aims to enhance the competitiveness of the region for attracting direct investment which flows into and within ASEAN.

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Mary will have finished all her work _______.

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Because of a --------- increase in profits this quarter, Tyro Sportswear employees will receive their first-ever year-end bonus.

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She went on crying, with her head sunk into a pillow, and cried and cried _______ the pillow was wet through.

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He insisted on listening to the entire story.