He created a lot of vivid characters in his best-selling novels, thus winning the ______ of book-lovers all over the world. 

He moved to a big city to try his __________.

You’d better write down the phone number of that restaurant for future __________.

Bill was doing a lot of physical exercises to build up his ________.

Great ________ should be made to speed up higher education to meet the needs of industry and agriculture.