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____________the last decade, Louellen Hospital has been recognized for exemplary patient care and progressive technology.

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

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Quan is used to _____ after having crossed  the continent many times during the past decade.

To build on the field of political and security cooperation, _______ ASEAN Leaders have agreed to establish the ASEAN Security Community CASC).

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Guitarist Carlos Roldan……. his newest music at a fund-raising concert in Madrid last month.

He said he..................return later. 

Prolonged direct eye contact is considered to be _______ or even intimidating.

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Candidates for the position must____________their applications by the end of the month.

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The impressive floral display at the building entrance is ----------- made up of blue flowers, with a few red ones artfully placed throughout.

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She wanted to remove the color from the curtains, so she____________ them. 

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Carro Rentals offers flexible rate plans that make renting a car easy, whether for business……pleasure

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I’ve been feeling ill all week, so I'm going to see my doctor for a ...............

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What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and what is its purpose? The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a multilateral organization which was (1) _____ to give Southeast Asian states a forum to communicate (2) _____ each other. Since the region had a long colonial past and a history of endemic warfare, there has never been much peaceful and constructive (3) _____ between kings, presidents and other officials. A neutral forum was, (4) _____, a very useful development for all of those countries. ASEAN was formed as a result of the Bangkok (5) _____ of 1967 and initially had five members: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, (6) _____ Philippines and Singapore. Brunei (7) _____ joined in 1984 after it had won independence from Britain. Vietnam became the seventh member of the group, officially joining in 1995. (8) _____ several years of negotiation, Myanmar and Laos joined in 1997 and the final member of the ten, Cambodia, joined in 1999. The only (9)__ state in Southeast Asia which is not a member of ASEAN is now East Timor. It is still (10) _____ vulnerable and fragile to be able to participate for the foreseeable future.
(5)..........................

Even though the actors did quite a poor job of bringing the book to the stage, the ……was of the highest quality.

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The ensemble consists _________ four members who have been performing  together since last August.

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Advertising companies have long relied on focus groups to sell products. However, a team at Banes Associates is taking an ______ route. It is attempting to see whether neuromarketing,

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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Mrs. Pike _______ the door before the customers arrived.

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: 

He is someone we can respect and look up to. but he's not so high above us that we feel low and downtrodden.

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Library patrons who fail to return an item by the due date ------- a fee.

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The captain realized that unless immediate action was taken to discipline the crew, there could be a___________on the ship.