“May I take your order now?” “We’d like three black _________ and two green _________.”

“Why couldn’t they meet us at five o’clock?” “Because they were delayed by _________.”

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

---- Yang Yang carried off the first Winter Olympic _____ medal for China. ---- Great! What _____ she won for our motherland!

 Do you know _____ we are talking about? Come and I’ll tell you.

This is my old photo of my aunt’s when she had _____. And now she has a few _____.

Thanks to the old man’s hard work, a lot of _____ has been covered with green trees.

It’s a teacher’s _____ to make children learn.

One of the advantages of living on the top floor of a high rise is that you can get a good ____.

I wrote him a letter to show my _____ of his thoughtfulness.

We look forward to the day when the motorcar has been replaced by some less dangerous ____ of transport.

---- I’m sorry I stepped outside for a smoke. I was very tired. ---- There is no _____ for this while you are on duty.

No regular advertiser dare produce anything that fails to stick to the ____ of his advertisement.

I listened to Dr. Johnson’s lecture about biology, but I failed to get its key ____.

It has come to my _____ that some of you have been missing classes.

 A month’s _____ is required from whichever party wishes to end the agreement.

When he first went for treatment at the hospital he seemed to be a hopeless _____. 

It doesn't make any____now what he says -- it's too late for apologies.

Classification is a useful ______ to the organization of knowledge in any field.

What was the critic's ______ to the novel?