Manufacturers add large amounts of sugar to foodstuffs but never more than the ______ required to produce the optimum pleasurable taste.

Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet, hardly _____ doing anything else in their spare time.

 I have been waiting for you .................. 

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I’ll ....... the idea with the other members in the family and let you know.

Politicians___________blame the media if they don’t win the election. They’re so predictable.

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Mr. Thomas has not_____________decided which design to use for the company letterhead.

Trees are among the biggest and longest-living things on Earth, some dating back longer than the oldest buildings. But _______ being nice to look at, trees also play an important role in improving the quality of our lives.

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Inclement weather and a reduced workforce……the greatest challenges to the renovation of the Kern Science Center.

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He laughed _________ when he was watching “Tom and Jerry” on TV.

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)......................

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Please respond to this e-mail and let me know what equipment you will need for your presentation. I can reserve an electronic whiteboard, a digital projector, screens, and microphones,_____________other things.

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My parents’ warnings didn’t deter me from choosing the job of my dreams.

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Library users must remove all…………belongings when they leave the library for more than a half hour.

______, Malaysia experienced significant economic growth.

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My grandmother ........ this picture for a week and she .......it.

A survey by the French army in 1881 ______ that among the 387 men, there were 1,333 designs.

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She told .......... afraid.

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Janning Footwear’s marketing campaign was ______ aimed at young adults in  an attempt to broaden its customer base. 

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Please let me know when you are available to……… Janet.

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Avoid ........... your houseplants too much water.

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The sack with the vegetables was far too heavy for me to carry, so I_____________it cross the floor.