Some countries, like Japan, will employ people without a teaching qualification as _______ as the teacher is a native speaker of English. 

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

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, started in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. This did not happen by chance. It was the  ______ of changes in the way people lived in those places at that time.

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This town is ………… I was born.

Identify the underlined word/phrase (A or B, C,D) that needs correcting to become an exact one.

I think I prefer country life more than city life

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The participants must find ...... all the answers in order to go in the next round.

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

It is always advisable to verify departure times,________flight schedules may change after a ticket is issued.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions: 

We have to remember is that we have to give people a leg up to succeed in this society and that’s not something we ought to be embarrassed about.

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

Our teacher tends to ________ certain subjects which she finds it difficult to talk about.

Up to now, ASEAN has got ten _____________.

Whenever my little sister …, all of us will run to her. 

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.
(10)......................

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

 The           statement reported the survival of fifty people.

The company is trying hard to improve customer __________ . 

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To be--------- for the position at Prextile Industries, candidates must have at least 2 years of engineering experience.

I do not understand what these results ______.

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These are the children ..............

The man got out the car , .......................round to the back and opened the boot. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

Please note that any changes to your reservation should be made at least three days prior to your............... at the hotel.

I can’t tell you very much about the subject, I’m afraid. I only have a very ______ knowledge of it myself.