Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair or group of sentences in the following questions.

Some people wanted travel scholarships. The end of the week was the deadline. By then everyone had applied

  

Where is John? – He .............. his car in the garage. A

Make sure you ............ the electricity before you ...............mending this light switch. 

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
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.
(1)..........................

 I .........................at 8 o’clock every morning. 

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 …………. nonsense and you are out of the group!

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Be aware that candidates…….applications are incomplete will not be considered for an interview.

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.
(9)......................

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You have to pay extra if you take too ............. with you.

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I didn’t know ............... that machine.

Despite the fact that the new…………was developed by MIN Communications, its parent company received all the credit for it.

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_______leaving Tokyo on June 15, I need to leave on the thirteenth and return on the sixteenth.

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_______this quarter’s sales are as high as projected, Hoshiro Designs,Inc., anticipates emerging as the leading graphic design companmhy in Japan.

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One day ........ the moon lasts ............... two weeks.

In my information, a person travelling alone sometimes meets with unexpected hospitality, and this trip was no ________.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions:

Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order

 ______, he did not receive respect from the people.

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As ............ as I know, I haven't received a bill for the new computer.

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Visitors to the Sydney Orgo Lab  facilities must_________by an employee at all times.

The Sun is ________ bright to look at directly.

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My son has a big_________, he’s always telling stories about things which didn’t happen!