When __________ to explain his mistake, the new employee cleared his throat nervously

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Personnel changes within the marketing department …………no surprise, as it completely failed to meet the target on the most recent project.

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She has .............. provided a picnic lunch for us.

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since we have to be there in a hurry, we ........ take a taxi.

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

In summary, for most visitors, the Japanese are _______ and difficult to understand.

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)......................

Where is John? – He .............. his car in the garage. A

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East Abihay City is run ------------ a mayor and six-member council who are elected  for four years. 

Jack ................... the door. 

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His ideas about the future of the company did not___________with those of the chairman. 

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I object …………..to the sea in this cold weather.

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Most of the spices and many of the herbs ......... today originate from plants native to tropical regions.

A survey by the French army in 1881 ______ that among the 387 men, there were 1,333 designs.

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: May I _____ Monday for our trip to Dalat?

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He just sat there______________at me and I felt very uncomfortable.

 I will come and see you before I ....................for America. 

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: 

I have a vague recollection of meeting him when I was a child.

Read the passage and choose the best option to complete each blank. 
Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy (1) _______ historically revolves around extended trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan Singapore is one (2)_______ the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on export, refining, imported goods, especially in manufacturing. Manufacturing constituted twenty six (3) ________ of Singapore’s GDP in 2005. The manufacturing industry is well –diversified into electronic petroleum refining chemicals, (4) _______ engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10 percent of the world foundry water output. Singapore’s the busiest port in the world in terms of tonnage shipped. Singapore is The world’s fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City (5) _______ Tokyo
(1)............................

On the other hand, tattooing was banned in Europe by the early Christians, who thought that it was a sinful thing to _____.