The Avicenna Partnership is a ___ company with a long and successful sales history.

After marriage, Mrs. Hoa always keeps a good_____with her mother-in-law.

_________ one hand on the steering wheel, Ann opened a can of soda pop with her free hand.

A surprising number of popular spectator sports, for example football or baseball, ______ in Europe or the USA in the nineteenth century. 

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

Linella Media Group has indicated that growth in its new media  revenues last year helped ------- a decrease in television advertising.

It is now ending its first term as a school _____by the village community and the villagers are just proud of their achievement.

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

When the body is stressed or frightened, adrenaline travels throughout all parts of the body in the blood, keeping energy levels high.

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
(5).........................

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

In the twentieth century, drug markedly improved health throughout the world

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

Nevada Jobfind Inc. is planning to host a career fair for college graduates seeking…………in the healthcare sector.

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

Mr. Howard: 

We have ------- your fax order for a case of hanging file folders.  

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: 

 An optimistic person always sees things on the bright sides.

It before you start applying for any job, you must be absolutely sure you have right ________.

This new center is an interesting ...................

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.
(9)......................

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

Funds raised by the local preservation society have helped ______ the historic  Jasenville train station.

The UK Government ensures that all schools in the UK meet certain standards, and this includes independent schools as well as those that are _____ by the Government.

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

Mr. Song's promotion to the  position of division----------- was announced at this morning’s staff meeting. 

Choose the best answer to complete the sentence below.

We saw many beautiful birds _______ in the lake.

______attempts were made to search those buried beneath the rubble of the collapsed building.

Choose the best answer:

……..being ill, she still went to work on time.