1. Due to the winter storm, hundreds of flights were [   ] and many passengers had to stay in airports.


2. Natural disasters, such as typhoons and [   ], kill lots of people each year.


3. When the orange trees [   ], there is a sweet fragrance in the air.


4. Most of the people in my office want to stay [   ], so they exercise regularly.


5. We [   ] tell John about the accident, shouldn’t we?


6. After working hard for a whole day, I suggested [   ] a big meal in a restaurant.


7. He hurt his leg while climbing the mountain; [   ], he would have participated in the charity event to raise money for the poor.


8. The minimum [   ] is the lowest amount of money an employer is allowed to pay an employee.


9. Mary is never absent and always studies hard, so she [   ] as one of the excellent students in her class.


10. She could not concentrate when phone calls or visitors kept interrupting her thoughts, so she took a [   ] walk along the river, thinking over her career plan.


11. Do you mind [   ] to the post office with me? I don’t think I know how to get there.


12. A student's frequent absence from school is often a clear [   ] of his problem in life and study.


13. Mary can't hear, and she can hardly speak [   ].


14. 《Pam》:John, where are the cookies? Don’t tell me you ate them all! Again! 《John》:Yes, I did. [   ] They were so good. 《Pam》: I thought you didn’t like cookies. 《John》: Well, I don’t like cookies flavored with chocolate at all. But vanilla is different. I love them to death.


15. The man spent so little time with his family [   ] his daughter didn’t even recognize him.


16. This contract is [   ] approval by both parties involved.


17. Many of our character traits are not tested __ we are in a difficult situation. 


18. A: [   ] B:He’s a salesman.


19. Like [   ] other language skills, reading requires practice.


20. A [   ] of food can cause millions of people to die of hunger.


21. If a soldier lost his weapons in a [   ], he needed to fight with just his body.


22. The government hopes that the charge for trash disposal can [   ] people from throwing away usable resources.


23. A:I am going absolutely crazy without my mobile phone. It’s been three days and I still haven’t found it. It’s my lifeline. B: [   ]. I don’t know why you are so dependent on it. I don’t have a mobile phone and I am doing just fine.


24. The local farmers are looking to advanced agriculture as better protection from foreign [   ] after Taiwan joins the WTO.


25. She can sing well and [   ]. That’s why her friends usually ask her to sing karaoke together.


26. If Sonia [   ] sorry for being late, she’d have apologized to me by now.


27. A study shows that intelligence accounts for only 20 percent of the factors that determine success, [   ] EQ playing an important role in the remaining 80 percent.


28. [   ] before the twentieth century, traders carried coffee from Africa to Arabia.


29. The piano is one of the most popular musical [   ] today.


30. The social welfare system ____ provide the underprivileged people with sufficient support. 


31. The police arrested the suspect, but in the absence of [   ] he was set free soon.


32. Many expressive people can recall     colorful childhoods; singer Carly Simon, comedian Billy Crystal, and poet Nikki Giovanni     their parents with involving them with richly creative experiences. 


33. You don't want to go to the party, [   ]? You look very sleepy.


34. I didn’t go to Taipei last week; I wish I [   ] there.


35. Many of our character traits are not tested [   ] we are in a difficult situation.


36. Paparazzi are photographers who [   ] celebrities’ privacy by taking their pictures.


37. Little kids begin learning their mother tongue by [   ] what they hear around them.


38. The [   ] you work, the [   ] you will succeed.


39. The deadline is Friday, so we had better [   ] the report as soon as possible.


40. This book offers a     guide to hotels in Tokyo. The author made a report on every single hotel there. 


41. You must keep [   ] whatever your boss tells you to do, or you may be fired.


42. The [   ] earthquake has buried over 18,000 lives in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.


43. Please fill out the paperwork before [   ] in line.


44. The Dalai Lama arrived in Taiwan last night for a six-day visit to [   ] victims of Typhoon Morakot.


45. Those angry peasants held a sit-in [   ] make their protests against the new policy.


46. Ms. Johnson was busy [   ] the house when the postman came.


47. The economy in that country is facing a severe slowdown and possibly a __ in the next few years. 


48. I don’t know [   ]of the people in this room. Can you introduce each of them to me?


49. The annual charity fundraising event is ____ by several financial institutions in Taiwan. 


50. Do you know the man [   ] lives next door?