Before they _____ for the beach the sun was shining, but by the time they arrived it had clouded over.

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I hate the beginning of each year when all the____________start coming in and I have to find the money to pay them all.

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Good friendship should be based on mutual .............

I flew for the first time last year _______ I went to Brazil.

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Please remember that we also have trained personnel avaiable to help you……… your car.

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All the members of the__________-- had a party after the play was over.

The tourist industry is (1) ……. to be the largest industry. Before 1950 one million people travelled abroad each year but by the 1900s the figure (2) ….. to 400 million every year. (3) …… large numbers of tourists, however, are beginning to cause problems. For example, in the Alps the skiers are destroying the mountains they came to enjoy. Even parts of Mount Everest in the Himalayas are reported to be covered (4) ….. old tins, tents, and food that have been (5) ……
But at a time when we have (6) ….. freedom to travel than ever before, more and more people are asking how they can enjoy their holidays (7) ….. causing problems by spoiling the countryside. Now there is a new holiday (8) …… called "Holidays That Don't Cost The Earth". It tells you (9) ….. you can help the tourist industry by asking your travel agent the right questions (10) ……... you go on holiday.
(1)...............

Many people are dying                                   various types of cancer.

They had a very happy……….

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

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John, ....... that his girlfriend went out with another guy, decided to say goodbye to her.

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He___________his life to the skill of the surgeons.

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The main_____________of the new electronic notepad is internet use.

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

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.
(1)......................

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:

Ask Mum for permission to go out now. She looks like she’s in a good mood.

I met a  .............  girl at my friend's birthday party last Sunday.

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Mr. Gupta is….......... the few scientists who have been honored by both the Cooperson Society and the Henley Science Committee.

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They have gone out for a drink ......... 2 hours.

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The Produce Growers Association has distributed a pamphlet to area supermarkets  that lists fruits and vegetables with the highest --------of vitamins.

Smoking is very…. to our health.