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:

As tourism is more developed, people worry about the damage to the flora and fauna of the island.

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

He _________ to Hanoi ten days ago.

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Preparing a budget encourages an executive to --------- several options before deciding on a course of action. 

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Most of the victims died because they___________poisonous fumes.

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.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Quan is used to _____ after having crossed  the continent many times during the past decade.

During the last 400 years, most scientists have  ________on mathematics in their development of their inventions or discoveries.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: Jack used to _____ in Texas, but his company  had him transfer to a better position in New York.

They .............. table tennis when their father comes back home. 

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We have not had ……..  interesting talk to each other for a long time.

I saw him talking out something pointed in a ____ box.

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The motivations for the birth of ASEAN were the desire for a _______ environment.

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

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I’m not quite sure I understand completely. Could you be a bit more___________?

..............the water clear but also prevent the river from overflowing. 

Many people are dying                                   various types of cancer.

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She will be……for identifying and developing new business opportunities in the region.

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The boy _________ eyes are brown is my friend. 

Education is also important _____ it helps people get more out of life

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I suddenly caught him …….. in the bathroom.

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.
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