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

 

While the secretary is on vacation, her deputy will call the_______.

The major goal of ASEAN is to         economic growth, social progress and cultural development.

Most people ...........being disturbed while they ............

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His parents never allowed him ............

Several members of the environmental group were arrested at the scene.

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QIB will work…………to maintain sustainable growth and expansion plans.

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

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You will find the  manual  very helpful__________any problems you encounter when you first use the software.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
The Philippines, officially known (1) _____ the Republic of the Philippines, is (2) _____ in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine (3) ____ 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national (4) _____ is the 37th largest in the world with a 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of over 117.562 billion USD. There are (5) _____ 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century and an American territory at the (6) _____ of the 20th century. The Philippines won independence from Spain in 1896. The Philippines (7) _____ its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Spanish was (8) _____ official language of the Philippines until 1973. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino and English. The Philippines had cultural ties with Malaysia, Indonesia, and India in the ancient time, and trade (9) _____ with China and Japan as early as the 9th century. The late 1960s and early 1970s its economic development was second in Asia, (10) _____ to Japan. The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/ The Philippines is also a member of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and an active member in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
(2)........................

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:

I didn’t think his the comments were very appropriate at the time.

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My father continued to work very hard, hoping to be promoted to the position of manager. Finally, his hard work paid off and he was promoted.

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…………his falling out with his former employer, Mr. Lee still meets with some of his old co-workers from time to time.

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Alpha Clothing Store is a family-owned business offering high-quality men’s chothing at ……… prices.

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I would highly recommend it. This local establish presents its guests with an especially relaxing dining experience. In the main door, diners_________on large

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.
(5)......................

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 clearly remember talking to him in a chance meeting last summer.

Catching a train, making a phone call and going to the cinema all involve information _______ is stored, processed and communicated.

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That is a well-behaved boy whose behaviour has nothing to complain about.

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When he left school, my brother decided to ..... a priest instead of studying language.

Finding a cure for cancer will be a huge ………….breakthrough for mankind.