| 1. Skycrapers _______________ into the skies over Manhattan. | | |
| 2. Coming from Brazil, it took Marco about a year to become _______________ to our cold winters. | | |
| 3. Jennifer kept her bouquet of roses long after they had dried out as a _______________ of the evening that her boyfriend first told her he loved her. | | |
| 4. I should have followed my friend's _______________. He told me to buy a new car, but I got a used one, and I've been having all kinds of problems with it. | | |
| 5. The election was a _______________ for the conservative leader who lost his own seat despite the fact his party won the vote. | | |
| 6. Medical students generally have an _______________ amount of homework to do. | | |
| 7. Eighty-five percent of the land of Greenland _______________ beneath permanent ice. | | |
| 8. An elephant can use its trunk to _______________ objects as heavy as 275 kilograms or as small as a coin. | | |
| 9. The patient _______________ slowly down the hall of the hospital. | | |
| 10. He tried to quit drinking, but the _______________ to have a few beer in the evening after work was too strong. | | |
| 11. She _______________ to be a student in order to buy a ticket at a discount. | | |
| 12. He is a _______________ person who is able to make the difficult choices this company needs. | | |
| 13. I've noticed a good _______________ in Laurie's health since she started eating less junk food. | | |
| 14. I cut my finger on a _______________ during the test, and got blood all over the paper. | | |