First he ................... as a salesman, then as a night clerk, and after that he quit his job and became a writer.

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This is the best book I ........... .

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His parents never allowed him ............

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 economic crisis caused the downfall of the government.

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Mr Power said he ........... to see James immediately.

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The president of Paterson Industrial Solutions has signed a number of important______this month

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.
(2)......................

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.
(5)............................

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After a three-hour search, the missing ...... girl was found alive and well.

If I ________ you, I would take the job and then ask for more money.

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following question.

The new cowboy film catches the fancy of the children.

The defenders _____the enemy until reinforcements arrived.

Whenever my little sister …, all of us will run to her. 

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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It is time all the nations ........... to solve environmental problems.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: You’ll need some cash in …… currency but you can also use your credit card.

I have been learning English _______ I was twenty years old.

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We have abandoned plans to install a revolving security door because our engineers determined that it is_______flawed.

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Would you be so kind ....... the window? It’s stuffy here.

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The company is moving its headquarters to a new______________ with better links to the airport. 

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The producers of the new play After Dusk decided to add more performances………..the overwhelmingly positive response to early shows.