Thank you for your explanation, but I’m afraid I’m still in a _____ over what happened.

Make sure you mix the ingredients well, _______ you might get up lumps in your cake.

Because of their careless work, the road had to be repaired after only one year ______.

The old houses were__________ down to make way for a block of flats.

Televisions are now an everyday feature of most households in the United States, and television viewing is the number of one activity leisure.

The tiger is ______ of extinction. It is difficult to find them in the wild.

He tried to enlist at least twice, but was ______. 

I finally __________ the cold that I had had all week.

The factory was fined for______ chemicals into the river.

She is so ______ to her children that she has decided to quit her job to stay at home and look after them.

When I was a child, I loved to splash through the ______ after rain.

All too ______ it was time to go back to school after the glorious summer holidays.

Many young people in rural areas don't want to spend their lives on the farm like ______ parents.

He started to walk faster and the children had to run to_______.

The weather is going to change soon; I feel it in my __________

He has to arrange for the ______ of his furniture before he goes abroad.

The ______ from the forest fire could be seen ten miles away.

The cyclist was riding so erratically that the driver had to _____ to avoid hitting him. 

Polar explorers have to be extremely _____ to endure the climate and other hardships. 

We are surprised to hear that Rose and Jack have ________. They seemed very happy together when I saw them last in Hanoi.

Once you have been accepted as a pupil or student at the school or college, it's against the law for them to discriminate against you because of your religion or belief.