| 1. Learning new skills will _______________ young people to find work. | | |
| 2. A number of _______________ were assembled over the centuries following the death of the Buddha to discuss his teachings. | | |
| 3. The _______________ government has announced additional cuts to the education budget for next year. | | |
| 4. Haiti's capital city today bears little resemblance to the original French _______________ town that it was. | | |
| 5. Belgium's only natural _______________ are the North Sea coastline and the Meuse River. | | |
| 6. There are more than 4200 princes, and 40,000 other members of the _______________ family of Saudi Arabia. | | |
| 7. New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the right to _______________, in 1893. | | |
| 8. Some people believe that the _______________ of the death penalty would only result in an increase in the murder rate. | | |
| 9. An intense _______________ to educate children, and provide training is underway in the African nation of Burkina Faso. | | |
| 10. On September 11, 2001, terrorists flew jet airliners into the World Trade Centre in the heart of the financial _______________ of New York City. | | |
| 11. I. F. Stone once said that every _______________ is run by liars, and nothing they say should be believed. | | |
| 12. After the death of their Tsar in 927, the kingdom of Bulgaria plunged into a deep social and political _______________. | | |
| 13. Almost 200 members of Parliament were investigated in a _______________ scandal in Italy in the early 1990s. | | |
| 14. Japan has become a very _______________ country over the last one hundred years. | | |