Yesterday a hurricane hit the................of Vung Tau City.

On summer _____ many English men work in their gardens when they come home from work.

 I should like to ______ touch with old friends but I have so little time.

I got a diploma in business administration, but still sometimes wish I had been able to go to university and get a _________.

The presently accepted theory of light _______ some of the ideas of both earlier theories.

His _______ had always been to become an architect.

Violent programmes on television may have a bad _____ on children.

You are not allowed to use the ______ after eleven o’clock at night, as it makes too much noise.

Some whales migrate into warm waters to bear their.............

The country has a system of ______, most of which date from the nineteenth century.

 The final ______ of the play will take place on Monday.

Weeks later he had still not found a job and he began to feel ______ .

A long line of traffic had to wait at the _____ until the train had passed.

A horse drives the ______ from its body with its tail.

 I usually listen to the weather _____, though I have little faith in it.

There was a _______ of parchment as the solicitor unrolled the will written on it.

My employer’s ______ of my work does not matter to me at all.

Let's wait here for her; I'm sure she'll turn up before long. (Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.)

He knows so much about the stars that I am sure it would be impossible to find his ______.

Some researchers have just _______ a survey of young people's points of view on contractual marriage.

She has lost her handbag with the _____ sum of $1300 in it.