| 1. Detectives found _______________ of blood on the floor near where the body was found. | | |
| 2. He angrily _______________ the photo into little pieces and tossed it on the floor. | | |
| 3. I have a _______________ of homework to do this weekend. | | |
| 4. "I hate butter," the child cried as he tried to _______________ it off his sandwich. | | |
| 5. Your father is pretty tired from working all day and is taking a _______________, so can you guys play outside so that you don't wake him? | | |
| 6. Some foods can explode in the microwave, due to _______________ steam. | | |
| 7. The murderer's lawyer is planning to _______________ his sentence, saying one of the witnesses lied. | | |
| 8. Holding his aching head, Toshi _______________, and cursed himself for having drunk too much the night before. | | |
| 9. The _______________ on the present for my niece was really cute, with pictures of young animals with their mothers. | | |
| 10. We could see the _______________ of the old castle through the fog. | | |
| 11. Japan is made up of a _______________ of islands in the Pacific Ocean. | | |
| 12. I hurt my arm when my bicycle _______________ on the road in the rain, and I fell over. | | |
| 13. Sammy got a real _______________ in his confidence when he won his first ever race. | | |
| 14. She gets really nervous as soon as she _______________ on a plane. | | |
| 15. We are a little _______________ about your son's behaviour at school. | | |
| 16. Don't _______________ anything about the dead hamster to the kids; it really gets them upset. | | |