Nowadays many parents from the countryside cannot afford to educate their children, because the school      are too high.

He glances briefly towards her but there is no sign of ________. After all, it’s 15 years since they last met.

You must get there within an hour. There should be no ______ in sending this information to him.

Driven by __________, I asked the interviewee a personal question, which made him quite surprised.

The young man made a ________ to his parents that he would try to earn his own living after graduation.