| 1. The _______________ smiled at his audience, and then slowly drew a pigeon out of his sleeve. | | |
| 2. We have made every _______________ to get along with our new neighbours, but they don't seem interested in becoming friends. | | |
| 3. A good manager is able to handle any kind of difficult _______________. | | |
| 4. In 1984, more than 2,000 people were killed by poison gas in Bhopal, India in the world's worst industrial _______________. | | |
| 5. After my grandmother died, I saw her _______________ sitting in her favourite chair one evening. | | |
| 6. The temperature of the Earth's _______________ increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down. | | |
| 7. The identity of the murderer known as Jack the Ripper continues to be a _______________. | | |
| 8. Their sales _______________ are quite aggressive, and can really turn people off. | | |
| 9. There is a strange _______________ coming out of my engine. I think I'd better take my car to a mechanic. | | |
| 10. He was lying in the hospital bed with various _______________ running in and out of his nose, mouth and arms. | | |
| 11. She is undergoing tests in order to determine the _______________ of development of her cancer. | | |
| 12. Teachers are responsible for helping a student set the _______________ of learning. | | |
| 13. The children looked at a piece of tissue paper under a microscope to see the _______________ running through it. | | |
| 14. Some orangutans have discovered how to use _______________ to get insects out of holes. | | |
| 15. Frank looks quite old, but in _______________ the guy is only about 50. | | |