Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  I would _____ on time if I hadn’t stopped at the post office.

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She does not want to get married as she hates …… housework.

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After five weeks, both parties in the strike agreed that it should be settled by____________.

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_______, Peter came to see me.

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You are not allowed to ........ private phone calls in the office.

He hit the other boy again and again as his friends ________him on.

Since 1980, scientists all over the world … a lot of things to fight against AIDS. 

Five years ago it seemed certain to close but parents and other villagers fought the local education authority and raised funds to keep it _______.

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The strategic planning committee's recommendation was that more emphasis should be put --------- research and development in the coming year.

We bought this house at a ………price

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A letter…………by a copy of the press release was mailed to the public relations department yesterday.

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The murderer was_______________ to a lifetime imprisonment for his fault. 

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.
(4)......................

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To…........... for the local- shopper discount, customers must show proof of residency.

Tom ________ travel a lot. These days he doesn’t go away very often.

The technicians…………tested all air-conditioning units to ensure that the cooling system is running smoothly.

Mark a 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.

 It is generally believed that almost all young birds are very vulnerable to predators.

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 received housing benefit when I was unemployed.

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When you ........ here at this time tomorrow, I ...... the room.

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)
(6)........................

Feminism, collective term for systems of belief and theories that pay special (1) ________ to women's rights and women's position in culture and society. The term tends to be used for the women's rights movement, which began in the late 18th century and continues to campaign for complete political, social, and economic equality between women and men. This article (2)________specifically with the development of the ideas behind that movement and their  (3)____________and impact. 
Feminists are united by the idea that women's position in society is unequal to (4) ________of men, and that society is structured in such a way as to benefit men to the political, social, and economic (5) __________of women. However, feminists have used different theories to explain these (6) ____________ and have advocated different ways of redressing inequalities, and there are marked geographic and historical variations in the nature of feminism. 
Historically, feminist thought and activity can be divided into two waves. The first wave, which began in about 1800 and (7) _______until the 1930s, was largely concerned with gaining equal rights between women and men. The second wave, which began in the late 1960s, has continued to fight for (8) ______ but has also developed a (9)_______ of theories and approaches that stress the difference between women and men and that draw attention to the (10)_____ needs of women.
(2).........................