1. It gave me a strange feeling of excitement to see my name in ______.

2. He’ll soon get ______ his disappointment and be quite cheerful again
by the morning.

3. It’s the ______ in this country to go out and pick flower on the first
day of spring.

4. Our main concern is to raise the voters’ ______ of living.

5. Sometimes a bus ______ gets on the bus and checks the tickets.

6. He won the first ______ in the competition.

7. PTO stands ______ “Please turn over”— the page, of course.

8. You’d better add it up. I am no good at ______.

9. He was killed in a car ______.

10. He ______ out of the window for a moment and then went on
working.

11. Where do you ______ the writing paper? In this desk.

12. He made a swift ______ from his illness.

13. All the hotel in the town was full up so we stayed in a ______village.

14. We‘ve been ______ with that firm for many years.

15. The lady who had invited us heard me telling my wife that the dinner
was terrible so I was ______.

16. Sixty per cent of television viewers chose him as their ______ actor.

17. I can‘t give you an answer yet. I’d like ______ more time to consider
my decision.

18. I learnt to ______ a bicycle when I was six years old.