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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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The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted came up with a good answer

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In the United States, people of all ages .................. birthdays.

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We are too late. The plane ........ off ten minutes ago.

Since...................,I have heard nothing from him.  

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Please let me know if you are in need of any other office products at this time. You may  respond to this e-mail or call me ---------- at 415-555-0166, ext. 42. 

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I’ll_______________that mosquito if it settles on my arm.

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.
(3)......................

I can’t believe that you _______ all the three exercises! You just started five minutes ago.

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Do you know that Jim has started painting as a hobby?

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The students have to sift through all the journals in the library to find the information their

professor want them to find.

She said that the report was a bit __________. 

This type of study was formerly restricted to book-based learning and ________ course but now includes courses on TV, CD-ROM or the Internet, and self-access courses at language or computer centers.

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

You were ….not to be killed in the accident.

Thunderstorm and lightning posted a significant threat to the safety of the performers on stage so they had to ______the show.

Mrs. Robinson ___ great pride in her cooking.

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In this current role in new product development for Selzem Ltd., Mr. Kumar aims for______in new sports equipment.

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As the train pulled into the____________ , the passengers got ready to board it.

(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
(6)........................

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Carro Rentals offers flexible rate plans that make renting a car easy, whether for business……pleasure