| 1. Mark Twain once joked, "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is perhaps because we are not the person __________." | | |
| 2. The __________ in the quality of food at that restaurant has discouraged me from continuing to eat there. | | |
| 3. The doctors diagnosed kidney and liver __________, so the patient had to get transplants or he would die. | | |
| 4. Experts warn that many parents continue to __________ the risks their children take using the Internet. | | |
| 5. Mankind's consumption of the Earth's natural resources is __________ at a phenomenal pace. | | |
| 6. Analysts believe the airline company will be obliged to shed unprofitable domestic routes as it __________ in order to survive. | | |
| 7. Environmentalists believe that the damage to the river posed by the factory is as yet __________. | | |
| 8. Online music stores such as iTunes have __________ the way people buy and listen to their favourite songs. | | |
| 9. Online dating services which allow users to exchange background information offers users a __________ approach to the search for love and romance. | | |
| 10. Cross __________ of the tissue sample revealed a series of tiny tumours. | | |