Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Ever since …..David the bad news, he’s been avoiding seeing me.

Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter from the 19th century. Van Gogh's paintings are sold at very high prices (1) ______many collectors want his paintings. But unfortunately, when he was (2) ______, he did not have a happy life.
Van Gogh was from a poor family in Holland and lived (3) _______his life at home. He lived a rather sad and (4) _______ life. He drew things that he could see (5) ______ around the quiet town of his parents' home or outside his window. This is why he painted things (6) _______the sky, his room and even himself. 
Van Gogh once cut off his own ear after drawing a picture of himself. He cut it off to (7) _______ the person that said the ear in Van Gogh's painting was not correct. It was very (8) _____ him to do such a thing.
Van Gogh was also (9) _________a crazy man. He really (10) ______become crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital. Sadly, he killed himself when he was just 37.
(8)...........................

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Though far from…….., the study conducted by The Caratini Business Center identifies some of the issues affecting business decisions in small companies.

His parents' __________ made him work harder. 

There’s no need to ____your voice -I can hear you perfectly clearly.

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Ivankoff Industries’s venture into experimental technologies will be accomplished by utilizing............... already available within the company.

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Reaching 35 and obviously aging, Jane has to make up her mind on her future very soon.

We have been very successful at our current location, but as our regular _________

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I tried to get onto the train then it started to run, ....... point I saw her standing with tears on the platform. 

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

After Mariana _______ her exam, I _______ her out to eat.

Heat from a forest fire melts the seal and lets the seeds _____.

__________ tired after a long hard day, the marketing expert decided to call it a day and went home.

- Do you like going to school? - ________

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Does Tom own that car? No, I think his brother ........ it now.

Of course, the most important  ________ is to provide good public transport.

The environmental group hopes ______ the forest to its original condition by the end of the decade.

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The teacher _______ before we arrived.

Tom’s neighbors apologized                    the noise.

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What an excellent student she is! She almost has no ……… the exercise.

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The show runs.............. January 18.