Such education becomes ___ important as people gain more and more leisure time.

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.
(8)......................

Choose the best option among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence: The winner has been disqualified for cheating, so justice has been …..

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We are too late. The plane ........ off ten minutes ago.

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Lisa was wearing a pure white dress, with a gold belt round her__________. 

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Avery Motors will not _______ on the design of its new line of automobiles  until the press release tomorrow.

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

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Companies now can exploit the opportunities presented by _______ integrated market of increasingly prosperous consumers in the region of ASEAN.

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Doing business in a foreign country can ........ be very difficult.

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He began ............ English 2 years ago.

I love this film. I .................... it four or five times already. 

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

At local neighborhood level, trees also _______ important environment benefits.

The number of public school libraries increased dramatically when the federal government passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which provided funds for school districts to improve their education programs and facilities, including their libraries.  _______, many educators claim that since the legislation was passed federal spending has not increased sufficiently to meet the rising cost of new library technologies such as computer databases and Internet access.

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Linella Media Group has indicated that growth in its new media  revenues last year helped ------- a decrease in television advertising.

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.
(8)..........................

______ Peter gets here, we will congratulate him.

Mark a letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete each the following exchanges.

You want to address an envelope to whole family. You write: ________.

Peter … for her wife’s letter since last Friday. Now he hasn’t received yet. 

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

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The valley ......... the village locates is heavily polluted.