Likewise, modern-day laborers with too much ____ may find it difficult to refrain from the addictive and trivial pursuit of ____ , extravagant fashion and _____ video games and TV---similar bad habits that waste valuable time.

Laborers are ____ a job they don’t enjoy for a small ___________, waiting all day until they go home and play.

All highways, roads, and even country paths are____ wagons, carts, and bicycles, with bundles and suitcases, and____ people.

I have not yet ____ war and can't relate into a single chain of____ these airplanes, the roar of the bombs, the earth ____ out from the forest, and my seemingly inevitable death.

While advertising offers a stimulus to buy, sales promotion offers a(n) ____ to buy, but consumers must have their own reason to buy.

A. incentive
B. contend
C. gossip
D. autonomy

As we ____ to tonight’s presidential debate, it’s time to go over the political agendas which the candidates are trying to promote.

A. at hand
B. slave away
C. count down
D. dedicate

To a large extent, computers have already _____ most aspects of our lives, from transportation and telecommunications to entertainment.

A. nutrition
B. standpoint
C. evacuated
D. permeated

I know____ about cars, and i'm not interested in them either.

A. any to nothing
B. next to nothing
C. everything
D. much

After her long,sleepless night, Ruth took a deep breath and _____ all her courage to put into words what she had decided to say.

A. summoned
B. minimal
C. brooded
D. huddled

The heavy rain _____ loss of property, disease and even death ____ the population in the small vally below the dam.

A. afflicted ...with
B. inflicted...upon
C. resulted...in
D. due to