| 1. Profits have _______________ somewhat this quarter. | | |
| 2. A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will repeatedly _______________ up and down between the top and the bottom of the glass. | | |
| 3. The runner _______________ to an easy finish in the race, well ahead of his nearest competitor. | | |
| 4. Juneau, Alaska is the only American capital city which is not _______________ by car. | | |
| 5. With their upturned mouths, dolphins look like they are always _______________. | | |
| 6. We worked all morning, _______________ only to drink a bit of water. | | |
| 7. We had to _______________ all the computers in the office because they were so old that none of the new software would work on them. | | |
| 8. We bought some tomato _______________ to make homemade pizza. | | |
| 9. Jenna is considering moving to Japan for a year because she wants to be an airline _______________, and needs to learn another language. | | |
| 10. The government _______________ very low in recent opinion polls. | | |
| 11. The crowd _______________ anti-government slogans as the president emerged from the meeting. | | |
| 12. This program contains scenes of violence which may disturb some _______________. | | |
| 13. Investing in the stock market is a very _______________ way to try to make money. | | |
| 14. The wolves were standing on the hill, _______________ against the evening sky. | | |
| 15. He _______________ his bag over his shoulder and headed off down the trail. | | |
| 16. Some wild orangutans have learned to get water from a hole by _______________ a branch into it and then licking the leaves. | | |