This book gives a brief _____ of the history of the castle and details of the art collection in the main hall.

It is wrong for someone in such a high _____ in the government to behave too badly in public.

The managing director took the _____ for the accident, although it was not really his fault.

American women were _____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

We have moved into a four-room flat so far. Our room is between _____.

The current political _____ of our country is favorable for foreign investments.

You will get to the church more quickly if you take this _____ across the fields.

There is a 20 minute parking _____ here, so we must get back to the car very quickly.

There is no known_____for this disease but it can be______.

Although I had read the book assigned by the professor several times, it didn’t make any______ to me.

A(n)______ is a person who understand people’s characters.

My knowledge of Hong Kong came only from some movies: a______ of criminals are pursued by the police in the narrow streets and then they have a fight.

Shanghai is so full of_______, it seems as if things never stop.

The headmaster is to give a formal_______ at the annual ceremony.

After careful research, it was decided that the spaceship should reenter the Earth’s________.

It seemed that Ivy was in no________ this evening to listen to my jokes.

Does this car give you good _____for your money ?

In the       of proof , the police could not take action against the man .

—Yangyang carried off the first winter Olympic _____ medal for China.—Great! What ____ she won for our motherland!

Before the final examination, many students have shown ____ of tension. Some have trouble in sleeping while others have lost their appetite.