At the meeting, they sat very_____ and had a _____ talk, but I didn’t know what they were talking about.     

The flowers in the garden smell ____.

During his five-day state visit to Japan, Hu Jintao  made  such an ________ speech that all the people present were ________.

Tom sounds very much ____in the job, but I’m not sure whether he can manage it.

William Shakespeare occupied a ______ position in English literature.