The truth is ____ it is too foggy for the bus to run ____ far.

Her father works as a ______ in a hotel and her mother a ______ in a private company. 

Englishmen usually don’t ask each other about ___ affairs.

There being no witness on the spot, the police were delayed by the _____ of information about the crime.

I shouldn’t have accepted the man’s present, but I found it difficult to turn down his ______.