1. Taichung City is home to a little more than 700 thousand residents with 64% of the [____] employed.


2. My legs are _____ after the ball game. 


3. Customer:I have 3 books to be sent to the US by airmail. How can I mail them?Clerk: [____]Customer: Thanks.


4. Peter: Where is the post office near the railway station?Grace: [____] The post office is on the right side.


5. It was so dark that [____] anything.


6. You should live within your income. Otherwise, you won’t be able to earn enough money to [____].


7. You are not [____] to understand the current situation.


8. The news was [____] good [____] true.


9. At our hotel your butler will [____] that your requests are satisfactorily fulfilled.


10. By 2050, Africa’s population, both northern and sub-Saharan, is expected to [____] from 900 million to almost two billion.


11. In May and June, the museum [____] a series of one-week exhibitions.


12. A:Can you please mail these letters and postcards for me? B: Sure. Did you address and stamp them? A: [____]B: You're welcome.


13. The flooding after the typhoon _____ many houses.


14. Although the Enlightenment may have overestimated the power of reason to guide human conduct, it nevertheless opened to men and women a more humane view of their fellow passengers.


15. My bookshelves were destroyed in the flood. I need to find a [____] to fix them.


16. A:Do the medicines taste awful?B: [_____]


17. Sophia has profound knowledge of Greek history, which makes her a [____] in that field.


18. I look forward to [_____] after working hard in the company for so many years.


19. You have worked so hard for a whole year-_____ taking a break.


20. Sherlock Holmes [____] smoke in the air and assumed the killer had not left for too long.


21. Tom had stayed up watching movies and _____ this morning. 


22. Mary’s uncle passed away yesterday. The _____ will be held next Tuesday. 


23. The gentleman [____] the lady to the door of her flat and kissed her good night.


24. When an athlete won an event in the Olympic Games, musicians played the national anthem of his country and his national flag [____].


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


26. You will be [____] for littering in public places.


27. [____] a new language is interesting.


28. Fortunately, the patient’s condition remains [____] after the operation. She will be recovering soon.


29. No sooner [____] the department than it began to rain.


30. Many customers complained that they had difficulty assembling the M-20 mountain bicycle, because the instructions in the manual were not [____].


31. Since he went to Japan, I haven’t heard [____] him again.


32. The outer planets are cooler than the inner ones _____ they are further from the sun.


33. Critics have suggested that the Neihu-Mucha MRT line [____] during the 21st Summer Deaflympics in Taipei.


34. Jenny’s success in her career _____ her mother very much.


35. Only the members with a gold pass will have full [____] to this club.


36. Japan and France are in [____].


37. Although the farmers had to work in the mud, they were all pleased, [____] the rain had come in the nick of time.


38. I’m going to the garage. My car needs _____ because it broke down the day before yesterday.


39. As a baseball pitcher, Wang Chien-ming gained his international [____] by having nineteen wins within a baseball season.


40. Mandarin is widely [____] in the world, and you can find Chinese food restaurants in many big cities.


41. Sexual [____] is regarded as a serious violation of women’s rights.


42. The building collapsed, and only one person buried underground could _____ survive the catastrophic earthquake.


43. Mother Teresa [____] her [____] life aiding the sick and the homeless. Her selfless love has been highly praised by the world.


44. [____] you eat every day has a profound and everlasting impact on your health.


45. This novel was mainly [____] by a stranger he met on his last trip to London.


46. I like to _____ time _____ my family.


47. I went to the store _____.


48. As he had grown up in the country, he was not [____] to the fast pace of the city life when he first moved to Taipei.


49. The label on the canned pork says this product is [____] to be free of preservatives.


50. Although I live in an English-speaking environment, I still read Chinese books. [____] does having an English name reduce the importance of Chinese culture in my heart.