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Dr. Tang has been chosen to accept        award on behalf of the development team.

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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His new yacht is certainly an ostentatious display of his wealth.

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I feel so tired this morning. I’ve been working hard_____________.

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It’s difficult to repair a car unless you have the right____________.

It has been ________ proven that stroking a cat can lower your blood pressure.

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.
(8)......................

The hospital has the best medical……………. and fast ambulances.  

______, Malaysia experienced significant economic growth.

_______ for my train the morning, I met an old school friend.

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Mariel Castillo’s----------- rated radio program will move to a new station in the spring.

He _______on a serious relationship at a very young age; naturally, it ended in tears.

The president has just realized that the launch of our new product must be postponed owing to…………conditions in the market.

Today many species of plant and animal are in ________ of extinction.
 

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By the time Clear Blaze Technology's word processing program  goes on the market,software engineers ------------- its remaining flaws. 

Integrating with _______ world's economy, ASEAN finds itself facing important opportunities and challenges

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You may refer to your owner’s manual for a complete list of.......... service checks.

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We are bored ……… the same activities in English lessons.

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Economist Eun-Hee Kim has published a………..new book about monetary policy

I wouldn’t say I know her __________, but we see each other from time to time.

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The cost of ............ is very high in big cities.