1、 It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became ________, as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track.

2、 The crime was ________ by evidence of child abuse and the fact that the victim was very young.

3、 Competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs in the context of ________ supplies.

4、 Recently a number of voluntary initiatives have sought to ________ a sense of belonging to the community on the part of young people.

5、 Mrs. McBride, my neighbor, was a fanatic (狂热的) gardener, planting lots of flowers and vegetables on the ________ at the back of her house.

6、 Mrs. Cummins, very ________ in her duties, watched the whole process with a sensitive eye.

7、 In studying children's pictures, a wide variety of ________, personal, and cultural factors needs to be taken into account.

8、 Rinny had ________ himself as a skilled craftsman at his father’s gunmaking shop.

9、 One reason that I may be the last person in Manhattan without a cell phone is that I ________ the excitement of coming home and finding a call light flashing.

10、 Only a few years ago, public opinion was ________ opposed.

11、 Just as women now demand for themselves greater freedom to express different ________ of themselves, so too do some men, although not nearly so many of them.

12、 In an effort to eliminate ________ fog from airports, weathermen use giant fans, and chemicals dropped from planes or shot upwards from strange machines on the ground.

13、 If the ________ guest is unable to pay, then the receptionist may refuse to accommodate that person.

14、 On the wall of his office, there was a big picture of a(n) ________ of soldiers, and another of a man in an air-force uniform standing in the park.

15、 Most mothers, if forced to leave home for a few days, would ________ their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father.

16、 One of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they ________ within individuals and sometimes within an individual’s family.

17、 Surgeons worry that during a delay, the cancer might begin to spread and thus waiting can be hard ________ patients.

18、 Because of privacy regulations, teachers can’t ________ a child’s phone number.

19、 Jack is so ________ to his appearance that he never has his clothes pressed.

20、 Her ________ was rarely wrong where such things were concerned, but there was always the off chance.