| 1. The _______________ of the cars' engines could be heard in the distance. | | |
| 2. We _______________ our blanket out on the grass, and sat down to have lunch. | | |
| 3. Just twenty seconds' worth of _______________ remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. | | |
| 4. The boys heard _______________ as they passed the house, and saw smoke coming out of one of the windows. | | |
| 5. Molly was woken up by the sound of someone _______________ at her bedroom window. | | |
| 6. The city invited the public to view an architect's _______________ of the proposed conference centre. | | |
| 7. The young snowboarder _______________ into a skier while getting off the lift, and sprained his ankle. | | |
| 8. When I sat down on the old sofa, a cloud of _______________ rose into the air around me. | | |
| 9. The _______________ of the oil tanker in trouble off the coast of Alaska was reported to the Coast Guard by a passing plane. | | |
| 10. We _______________ the boat from Cattle Point, and sailed up the coast to Sidney. | | |
| 11. After a six-month _______________ of the program, analysts have come up with a number of recommendations for improving the system. | | |
| 12. Janet just split up with Michael so I think she's going to need some emotional _______________. | | |
| 13. The suspect was _______________ into the courtroom by an armed guard. | | |
| 14. The country of Italy is _______________ like a boot. | | |
| 15. Divers have been able to recover all the bodies from the _______________ of a fishing boat that sunk off the coast of Newfoundland. | | |
| 16. The wind _______________ my hat off when I was on the ferry and I lost it. | | |