| 1. My teacher _______________ ten points from my essay because it was too short. | | |
| 2. Food _______________ in North Korea caused thousands of deaths a couple of years ago. | | |
| 3. Telecommunication _______________ in Somalia currently offer the lowest international telephone call rates on the African continent. | | |
| 4. The four most important _______________ of the Chinese are widely accepted to be paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. | | |
| 5. You can't _______________ to miss any classes. Your marks aren't very good right now, and you may fail the course. | | |
| 6. American theatre _______________ say they sell the most popcorn during the showing of scary movies. | | |
| 7. A major corporation has withdrawn its _______________ of the sporting event due to rumours of drug use by the athletes. | | |
| 8. We are part of a purely non-_______________ organization working towards reducing starvation in the developing world. | | |
| 9. Any items on this week's _______________ that are not discussed today will have to wait until next week. | | |
| 10. Henry Kissinger was the chief _______________ for the United States at the Paris peace talks, where an agreement to end the Vietnam war was reached. | | |
| 11. Studies have shown that when a waitress draws a happy face on a bill, _______________ rise 18%. | | |
| 12. She hopes to have a successful _______________ in business after completing her commerce degree. | | |
| 13. The children _______________ ripped their Christmas presents open. | | |
| 14. Many British Columbia wines offer excellent quality at very little _______________. | | |
| 15. We had to call in a television _______________ to fix our set only 6 months after we bought it. | | |
| 16. The train only stopped long enough for a few _______________ to hop on. | | |
| 17. In 1993, an unknown _______________ paid $945,000 at auction for the Oscar award won by Vivien Leigh in the movie "Gone With the Wind." | | |