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

The book __________ last year has been lost. 

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

We guarantee privacy and__________when it comes to the information in your résumé. 

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

Dear Sirs, I am writing in the response to your____________ for a sales clerk in yesterday’s “Business Man”.

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

Customers may return any items within 30 days if they are not_________with their purchase.

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

____________the Kendal Company has been in business for only nine months, it has very quickly become profitable.

Choose the best answer:

The English contest ...... the Student Union is an annual event in my school.

There’s no need to ____your voice -I can hear you perfectly clearly.

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:

The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted came up with a good answer

She .............................German for two years. 

Choose the underlined part that needs correction: The new employees enjoyed their first day at work, although everyone agreed that the lunch was the bad food they had ever eaten.

Freya Stark (1893- 1993) was an extraordinary woman who ventured into (1) ____ areas where few Europeans had ever (2) ____ foot. Born in Paris, brought up in Italy, and educated in London, she was already multilingual before deciding to learn Arabic (3) ____ the end of 30. She traveled (4)____ through Greece, Italy and Cyprus. However, her passion was for exploring ancient lands of the Middle East. She was determined to make contact with the tribes that populated the area before their traditional (5) ____ of life vanished forever. She led expeditions into the most dangerous areas and despite the risks (she was even thrown into a military prison on one occasion), she always returned safe and (6) ____. During her travels, she completed a (7) ______ across the Valley of the Assassins, famous not only for its rough terrain but (8) ____ for its murderous inhabitants, and followed in the (9)___ of Alexander, the Great. In her long career she produced maps, discovered lost cities, and worked as a spy and propagandist, although it is as a travel writer that she is best remembered. She died at the age of 100, (10) ________most women of her generation in more ways than one.
(3).........................

The point of Phobia Awareness Week is to highlight the difficulties that many people face in everyday situations. It is important to (1) _____ between a fear and a phobia. It's (2)______usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of US actually have a phobia of these things. When these fears begin to (3) _____ you embarrassment or you feel that your life is being disrupted then you would be wise to (4)_____ treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most (5) _____ phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from Greek and (6) _____ means 'fear of the marketplace' but we apply it today to describe a distressing (7) ______ in which people avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise. Treatment of phobias usually consists of the patient (8) _____ behavioural therapy during which they gradually get used to being near the object or the situation that causes them fear. Drugs may be (9) _____ to treat anxiety and many people opt for alternative therapy such as acupuncture or hypnosis to help them come to (10) _____ with their fear and conquer it.
(9)....................

I’m sorry for ___ such a fuss about the unfruitful plan.

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:

In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew 25 years ago.

It helps them acquire the skills that make life more interesting and enjoyable, such as the skills needed to participate in a sport, paint a picture, or play a musical _____.

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

How do you say the following score? “1-0”.

All this changed with the growth of factories and industry in the nineteenth century, first in Europe and  ______. In the USA.

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There are many places of ....... in Hanoi.

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.
(2)......................

(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
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