After three months, these young students finally became used to the ______ of life in a big city abroad.

Paul is good, kind, hard-working and intelligent; _____, I can’t speak too highly of him.

Shelly had prepared carefully for her biology examination so that she could be sure of passing it on her first ______.

 Mary had taken _____ to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want.

 What impressed me most about the movie were the _________filmed in New York.