Your best friend may be someone you have known all your life, someone you have grown up with and been through lots of _____ and downs with.

The coach takes every opportunity to _______ his players, yet he ignores every opportunity to praise them.

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

 ______, can you tell him that I have a book for him, please?

Among ASEAN's _______ greatest challenges are the integration of market diversity and the transitional economies of its member countries

…………Mega Foods imports only one kind of cheese now, the company will be importing a total of five varieties by next year.

Library and information science majors should be reminded of the seminar beginning…………at 6:00 p.m in room 212B

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I don’t have a computer. I wish I _________ a new one.

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He came home late, so I asked him where ...... been.

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.
(1)......................

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In the twentieth century, drug markedly improved health throughout the world

Health is something we tend to (1) ___when we have it. When our body is doing well, we are hardly (3)____of it. But illness can come, even (2)______we are young. In fact, childhood has been a very susceptible time. Many diseases attack children in particular, and people know very little (4)______ to cure them once they struck. The result was that many children died. About a century ago, (5)__________, scientists found out about germs, and then everything changed. The (6)_____ of many diseases was found, and cures were developed. As this medical discovery spread, the world became (7)______ safer for children. The result is that (8)___________a hundred years ago, the average man lived for 35 years, nowadays, in many areas of the world, people can (9)______ to live for 75 years. And what do we expect by the year 2020 ? Undoubtedly, medical science will continue to (10)______ . Some people will be able to avoid medical problems that are unavoidable today.
(5)............................

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He stood on the______________of the ship and watched the sea gulls dive for fish.

Another common superstition is that it is unlucky to open an umbrella in the house - it will either bring  ______ to the person who opened it or to the whole household 

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The use of umbrellas is prohibited in the sport stadium because they obstruct the view of______

While she _______ breakfast, I set the table.

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Mr. Kensington has already filed the expense report for............... recent trip to Hong Kong.

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Ms. Anderson can be reached at 906- 555- 0167, should you wish…..... an appointment with her.

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Tomorrow I’ll have an interview, can you give some_________.

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Before they go to bed, their father often reads stories to them, most of which ……

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