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

____________the Kendal Company has been in business for only nine months, it has very quickly become profitable.

What did that man die                 ?  –A heart attack.

Among ASEAN's _______ greatest challenges are the integration of market diversity and the transitional economies of its member countries

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A number of students in my class …………… the handicapped.

Is it a compulsion that the scheme ____ next Friday?

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A donkey____________ loudly all through the night.

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The Globe Lighting Supply handbook.................... a list of important company telephone numbers.

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.
(9)......................

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

Your start date will be February 20. You should report towork at 8:00 A.M. and check in with the Human resources department receptionist on the second floor. We will have you fill out some initial paperwork in the morning. Your manager will meet you at our office at 9:00A.M. and take you on a tour of the facilities, giving you an opportunity to meet many of the people you will be working with.____________, you are scheduled to attend a session with one of our human resources

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 dentist administered laughing gas to her patient in order to ease his discomfort.

We have…………confidence in the product's ability to provide unrivaled protection in an exposed blast environment.

I have never played badminton before.This is the first time I .................to play. 

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:

He’s really delighted with his success.

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Many of the older buildings in this area have been torn down to make room for the_____ of the highway.

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Let’s wait .............. the rain stops.

This film is quite__________. All the children are __________ in it. 

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The unit is simple and unobtrusive, and as a space-saving measure,  it is not…....... with an ice or water dispenser.

Surely there are now reasons why ____ book ought to be dead, or at least very badly injured.

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

Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
(3)............................

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: My father stopped smoking three years ______.