Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.

Scientists are trying to find energy that consumes less fuel.

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I wouldn’t waste time ......... that book if I were you.

Learning English isn’t so difficult once you__________ .

She said that if I _____ back the following day, she ____ able to help me.

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The secretary corrected all the __________ in the computer printout. 

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pleased the clients most was the effective customer service Morandon___________Bank provided.

However, some graduates actually like the idea of ______ a career in teaching English long-term, and there are numerous courses at various levels of teaching, from the fast-track TEFL to a diploma or masters.

Sucrose, which supplies glucose to the body, is ______ from the sugar cane plant, and white sugar (pure sucrose) is used by food technologists to measure sweetness in other substances.

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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He always tries ……. the best conditions …….. his children.

Since they aren’t answering their telephone, they ___________.

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Because of the large number of tourists in summer months, travelers should  plan _______ and make their reservations early. 

As the wind blows over the land, it often  ______ small grains of sand.

His funny story is so __________ that we can't help laughing. 

No one knows where Sam is living now. The last time that I____ was about four years ago.

Hoa was amused at my ________story. 

The US. President serves a maximum of two ________ terms.

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

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What have fashion designers ............... to modernise the ao dai?

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Dr. Menotti's decision to move to Zurich has _______at all to do with his work.

He thinks you are ___ your time looking for a job in this town. There’s not much to do here.