| 1. Yasmin sat in the _______________ of a palm tree, reading magazines, and drinking a cold beer. | | |
| 2. The fresh bread was still _______________, and it smelled delicious. | | |
| 3. In 1970, a Soviet space probe landed on the moon, and collected samples of lunar _______________. | | |
| 4. A small fire started in a local park this morning, but the _______________ were quickly put out by police. | | |
| 5. The cool _______________ from the water felt good as we lay on the beach. | | |
| 6. We could hear the _______________ of the waterfall long before we saw it. | | |
| 7. Cook the chicken at a _______________ of 350 degrees for two hours. | | |
| 8. Wolves _______________ in the distance as we walked through the forest at night. | | |
| 9. English is not his _______________ language, although he speaks it perfectly. | | |
| 10. The average cat eats over 25 times its own weight in food, and the same amount again in _______________ every year. | | |
| 11. Gold was a valuable _______________ in the native cultures of Colombia long before the Spanish arrived. | | |
| 12. About 70 percent of the surface of the planet Venus is covered by gently rolling _______________. | | |
| 13. The hiking trail follows the _______________ for about 20 kilometres. | | |
| 14. Lightning kills more people in the United States than any other natural _______________: an average of 400 dead, and 1,000 injured yearly. | | |
| 15. To save a typical tree, a stack of newspapers about 1.5 metres high must be _______________. | | |