8. Despite my insistence, Adam didn’t tell me -------- he didn’t like me and my family.

6. Soils are the result of -------- interacting processes -------- bring different materials together.

5. ---------- you have made minimal progress, it is by no means the kind of progress that you need to make.

9. She keeps saying that she has got -------- patience with kids, but forgets that she didn’t have -------- before she gave birth to her own kids.

19. I don’t suppose you are telling us the true version of the story, ----------?

20. Some people argue that certain oriental relaxation techniques ------- yoga and meditation are extremely effective in the treatment of high blood pressure.

11. A combination of imagination and determination -------- Peter -------- entirely new lines of research concerned with the way animals survive extreme environmental conditions.

7. I’m ready to do ---------- I can do to help you -------- your hardship.

18. You would not expect anyone -------- intelligent to make ------ stupid mistake, but he did so.

2. The wounded hunter -------- on the ground for almost an hour when, coincidentally, he -------- by another hunter, who must have keen eyes.

13. My mother is making a steady recovery from the flu and ------- the hospital by next week.

1. Tourists -------- when large numbers of middle-class people -------- to join the more wealthy aristocratic travellers.