1. Of all the policies put into effect by the Thatcher governments ____controversial was the economic one.

2. Exciting new research is transforming industrial robotics, offering the promise of whole new generation of ……… intelligent machines.

3. More than 29 million Africans are now infected with HIV, and the disease is killing ________________ Africans ________________ all the continents wars combined.

4. The new Prime Minister is generally regarded as ____ effective leaders the country has had in decades.

5. I’ve given up expecting them to act sensibly but their behaviour on this occasion was ____ irrational than usual.

6. The term "radical", in politics, refers to anyone with opinions ---- extreme ---- the main current of a countrys major political party or parties.

7. The United States spends ---- on armed forces ---- all other countries combined do.

8. In the latter half of the century, political ideas and opinions dominated poetry ____ .

9. Some anthropologists think that man today is _____ honest _____ he was hundreds and thousands of years ago.

10. In the latter part of the Middle Ages, cities created asylums to cope with the mentally ill. These asylums were simply prisons; the inmates were kept on chains in dark, filthy cells and were treated more like animals ---- as human beings.