| 1. If you chew gum on the airplane, it'll help to keep your ears from getting _______________ from the change in air pressure. | | |
| 2. They gave a _______________ review of the film, saying it was one of the best of the year. | | |
| 3. The students wore name _______________ for the first few classes, so it was easy to learn their names. | | |
| 4. The new secretary mixed up all the files, and it took us a week to _______________ them all out. | | |
| 5. Jeanette spoke sincerely and _______________ of her fight against discrimination in her country. | | |
| 6. Keith Folse notes that in many surveys, students _______________ vocabulary development second only to opportunities to speak in class as important for their language learning. | | |
| 7. We could hear the ghosts _______________ all about us as we walked through the graveyard. | | |
| 8. The boy was so cold that he was shivering _______________. | | |
| 9. She has been _______________ on drugs for years, and is in really bad shape. | | |
| 10. An _______________ number of teenagers are continuing to smoke cigarettes despite the government's attempts to discourage the habit. | | |
| 11. The party was really boring, so we made a quick _______________ and went to the pub. | | |
| 12. Be careful of that dog. I tried to pet him, and he _______________ at me. | | |
| 13. We got a couple of _______________ of almonds, some oatmeal and some sunflower seeds from the health food store to put in the cereal. | | |
| 14. In a department store _______________ from 1900, a piano cost $98.00. | | |
| 15. In May of 1994, the stolen painting "The Scream" by Edvard Munch was found _______________ in a hotel in Norway. | | |