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:

She came to the meeting late on purpose so she would miss the introductory speech.

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

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

The next step is to add exercise_____ you can raise the number of calories you can consume per day.

I’m going on holiday on Saturday. This time next week I .................on a beach in the sea.

The workers............to go on strike when the management ........... their demand for higher wages. 

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He ................. being given a receipt for the bill he had paid.

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The aims of the Association of Southeast Asia include the evolvement of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, and the promotion of regional peace.

The product was ________by the car manufacturer because of the faulty accelerator pedal.

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

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I think most children are creative enough to write .......... poems.

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For a brochure explaining the city’s.......................... to encourage recycling, please contact Christine Lee.

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We ...... take our vacation last week, but we canceled it because of the weather.

Lucy is going to do some shopping. Ann offers to help her. Ann: “ Would you like me to get you a taxi?” Lucy: “ ___________________”

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

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 some countries, the disease burden could be prevented through environmental improvements.

 For several years his ambition ....................to be a pilot. 

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

I want to remind you that Allen Hall……. some construction work next week.

I can’t believe that you ______ three pizzas already! I ______them in fifteen minutes ago!

Choose the best answer from the four options given (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence.

At the end of the day, my father walked to the bank, carried the day’s_______________in a special bag.

ASEAN also try to solve the problems of ethnic tensions which might lead _______ civil war.