| 1. The festival has been saved thanks to the _______________ of a number of major corporations. | | |
| 2. The _______________ on my motorcycle are going to cost over $500. | | |
| 3. He's a _______________ man. He only married her because her family is quite wealthy. | | |
| 4. The labour _______________ has resulted in an increase in salaries. | | |
| 5. His _______________ skills are not quite what they should be to oversee a staff of this size. | | |
| 6. Our global economy now functions primarily to produce _______________ for large corporations. | | |
| 7. _______________ between the government and nurses are going well, and hospitals should be back to normal by tomorrow. | | |
| 8. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that _______________ at a restaurant is considered impolite. | | |
| 9. The first item on our _______________ today is the current state of negotiations to avoid a strike. | | |
| 10. She had to go to Osaka on business, so her company paid all her _______________ for the trip. | | |
| 11. The _______________ of the printing press changed the world. | | |
| 12. The _______________ for a painting by Picasso started at $500,000 and went up quickly from there. | | |
| 13. He wrote more than 20 novels, and won a number of important prizes during his 30-year _______________ as a writer. | | |
| 14. The government needs to do something to create more _______________ housing for lower income families. | | |
| 15. Two _______________ trains crashed this morning in London, killing ten people and injuring scores of others. | | |
| 16. I only made $25,000 after income tax _______________. | | |
| 17. Severe energy shortages in Albania are forcing small _______________ out of business. | | |