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 each of the following questions from 25 to 29.

Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are already being eliminated.

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The next meeting _________ in May.

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The librarian told us not _________ reference books out of the library.

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__________ candidates are likely to succeed in job interviews. 

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In Vietnam, two or more ________ may live in a home. 

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A good essay must __________contain enough interesting ideas and specific exam but also have good organization

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Today’s scientists have overcome many of the challenges of the depth by using more sophisticated tools.

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I just can't ______ that noise any longer!

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It’s(A) not that I don’t like her, but I object (B) to be called (C) that by her. I am  not her“buddy”, (D) am I?

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The ground is wet. It ________ rained last night.

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______ should a young child be allowed to play with fireworks without adult supervision

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_________ migrate long distances is well documented.

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The boy was sent to the police because of several ________ that he had taken part in.

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I can^’t sleep ________ the hot weather.

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John: "Congratulations! You did great.                      Mary:  - " ___________.”

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word  or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. Fill in the appropriate word in question 38

      It is relatively easy for computers to speak. A computer that says ‘please’ and ‘thank you’  in the right    places is (35) ___   miracle of science ,but recognizing the words that make up normal , continuous human speech is another (36) ___ 

     Not until now have computer been programmed to (37) ___ 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(38) ___to their master’s or mistress’s voice.Now rapid progress is being made (39) ______systems programmed to adapt easily to each new speaker.

     The IBM Tangora system,under development at the end of 1980s was claimed to (40) ______a spoken vocabulary of 20,000 words with 95 percent accuracy. The system includes a processor that can  make informed guesses as to(41)______is a likely sentence.That system has been programmed not only with grammatical rules,but also with an analyssis of a vast quantity of office correspondence.On the(42) ______

 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

(43) ______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-dimemsional scene

(44) ______identifying all objects in it.

                  (From ‘Heinle & Heinle TOEFL Test Assistant .Grammar’ by Milada Broukal)