Soon after the mud-rock flow hit Zhouqu, Gansu Province, many soldiers came to the ______ as many people were trapped underground.

The author had qualified as a doctor but later gave up the _____ of medicine for full-time writing.

John has great singing _____________, but to become a real singer, he needs a lot of necessary training and practice.

With no rain for three months, and the food supplies running out, the present           ­­__here is getting worse.

The school was built on a hill, so we had a very wonderful ________ from the top.