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:

Reaching 35 and obviously aging, Jane has to make up her mind on her future very soon.

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Paul is not_____ in farming.

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I’ve been feeling ill all week, so I'm going to see my doctor for a ...............

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Dr. Weisman, who served for 25 years as an…...... part of the research team, will retire on March 30.

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Hurry up, or you won’t ....................... the last bus.

Following the visit to your production facility in Hong Kong next week, we………….a comprehensive factory automation program to meet your company's needs.

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I would highly recommend it. This local establish presents its guests with an especially relaxing dining experience. In the main door, diners_________on large

Amnesty International is an international recognized ______ organization.

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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.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. 
The Philippines, officially known (1) _____ the Republic of the Philippines, is (2) _____ in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine (3) ____ 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, sharing borders with Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country with a population approaching 90 million people. Its national (4) _____ is the 37th largest in the world with a 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of over 117.562 billion USD. There are (5) _____ 11 million overseas Filipinos worldwide. The Philippines became a Spanish colony in the 16th century and an American territory at the (6) _____ of the 20th century. The Philippines won independence from Spain in 1896. The Philippines (7) _____ its independence from the United States on July 4, 1946 after World War II. Spanish was (8) _____ official language of the Philippines until 1973. Since then, the two official languages are Filipino and English. The Philippines had cultural ties with Malaysia, Indonesia, and India in the ancient time, and trade (9) _____ with China and Japan as early as the 9th century. The late 1960s and early 1970s its economic development was second in Asia, (10) _____ to Japan. The Philippines is a founding and active member of the United Nations and is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)/ The Philippines is also a member of the East Asia Summit (EAS) and an active member in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
(10)........................

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 the Egyptian calendar, the first practical calendar created, the advent of Sirius in the morning sky before sunrise marked the beginning of the annual flooding of the Nile.

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Melbourne Motors has succeeded in............... positive publicity for its new line of ecologically friendly automobiles.

The film was so __________ that they all saw it through. 

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.
(10)......................

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Twenty new mechanical engineers will be____________the company next month.

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We would ............. to stay at home this evening.

The train ...............half an hour ago. 

Did you use to have …………………… as a child?

(John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1917-1963) the 35th us President (1961-1963). He was the country's youngest president and the first Roman Catholic ever ____ (1) ____, He was___(2)____known informally as Jack Kennedy and JFK. His wife was Jackie Kennedy. He won a medal for____(3)____during World War II, and was elected to the us House of Representatives (1947-1953) and then___(4)___ the us Senate (1952-1960).
Kennedy's greatest success___ (5) ___President was in___ (6) ___the Cuban missile crisis and his worst failure was over the Bay of Pigs incident. He worked ____ (7) ____his brother, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to support the civil rights___ (8) ___. He was murdered in Dallas, probably by Lee Harvey Oswald, in one of the most shocking events in us history. Some people believe that others were responsible for his murder, but ___ (9) ___has ever been___(10)___proved. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), won a Pulitzer Prize.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F Kennedy
(5)........................

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:

If desired, garnish your plate with parsley, bell pepper rings or other vegetables

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I am going to speak with the boss when the meeting _______.