He was pleased to have the _____ to hear such a fine musician play his favourite piece of music.

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

Mr. Pike held his wife's hands and talked urgently to her in a low voice, but there didn't seem to be any response. (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.)

The businessman proved to be an apparently well-behaved ______ middle-aged man.

She is a strict  ……………………

 I was not ______ that I had cut myself until I saw the blood all over my hand.

 The judge said that he was ______ by the high standards of performance by the riders.

The headlights of the approaching car were so ________ that the cyclist had to stop riding.

You won’t find a greater variety of flowers anywhere else on _____.

She tried to ______ out of the window to see the procession more clearly.

They lay almost flat and ______ through the tubelike underground passage.

There’s no need to be frightened of the dog; he’s quite ______.

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

These trees cannot be grown in such a cold ________ as ours.

He hit the other boxer so hard that he broke his lower ______.

There are many _____ in this city.

Chaplin's movies captivated.........throughout the world.

He spoke so quickly that I didn’t ______ what he said.

 The next ______ of the committee will take place on Thursday.

Belinda missed a few months of school because of illness and found it difficult to keep ______ with her classmates.

The weather was ______ the exceptionally poor harvest.