When you decide to start a family, you make a/an ______ to them. You shouldn’t turn your back on the people who love you.

——They say that my new car is a ____________ of money. ——Don’t you think those words are just sour grapes?

One hundred percent _______ to your studies, though it can be lonely and no fun at all, will leave precious marks on your youth.

—Few pupils are as bright as he is, and he works very hard, too.—It is no          that he always gets the first place. 

Lucy is a college student who is hard-working, so she passed the College English Test Band 4 at her first__________.