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

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

New software that should reduce employee training time_____________

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  ….. my daughter reaches the age of sixteen, she will be able to drive.

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: 

Feel free to bring along your significant other to the party.

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.
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The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
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Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

…. Ms. Rajappan has been at the law firm for only two years, she has already worked on a large number of high-profile projects.

Choose the best answer:

The flight to Paris was ........ because of the storm.

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

In the original itinerary you sent, I did not see any information regarding transport to and from the airports in Tokyo and Seoul.If you have not already done so, I would appreciate it if you could ….. that.

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

Users will appreciate the capacity  of the unit. In fact, it has more storage space  than  can be found in competitors' models that are ………priced.

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He is not ……….to understand what the old man is saying.

 I have an …. to the party tonight

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Joe seemed to be in good mood , …… he snapped at me angrily when I asked him to join us.

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

When she came to my house I lied in bed listening to music.

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

If you have any problems with the.............. process, contact technical support at extension 492.

They will come to your house or office and give you advice  ________ on your lifestyle and date of birth.

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

I’m sure the earth will have very few resources left____________.

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

At the moment I am spending my weekend go to camping with my friends.

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: 

The US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.

Choose the best answer:

Nothing ………his opinion.