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Hanoi Plan of Action __________ in 1998.

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: 

In many cultures, people signify their agreement by nodding their head.

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
(9)........................

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

There are many superstitions in Britain, but one of the most ______ held is that it is unlucky to walk under a ladder even if it means stepping off the pavement into a busy street!

Tom and Mary ............. for Vietnam tomorrow.

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

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.
(7)......................

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She’s so______________ , I can’t remember the last time she did a day’s work!

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Among the sales managers,_________has the highest sales record by the end of this year will receive the distinguished R.F. Fowler Award.

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ASEAN has emphasized cooperation in the "three pillars" of security, socio cultural and economic _______ in the region.

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The Ashford Chamber of Commerce invites visitors__________the restaurants, and theaters on the city's waterfront.

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The manager has asked Mr. Lim to submit his final report on the sales of the new washing machine…………April 30th.

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

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When I was at secondary school, the boy next to me ....... in class.

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

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

Within minutes, he had  ________ for me to visit her and her family.

An accurate…………of surveys is imperative to building a good understanding of customer needs.

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Dear Ms. Hsu 

We are writing to inform you that your Brisbane Independent Daily Herald subscription  rate is about to change from $18.75 per month to $21.00 per month. We regret any  financial burden this may place on our subscribers, but ------- our rising operating costs,  we find the change unavoidable. 

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