From my room on the sixth floor of the hotel, there’s a good _____ of the mountains.

The management committee will meet several times this week to reach _____ decisions about the future of the factory.

The whale shark has long been considered a(n) ______ species as its natural habitat is seriously damaged owing to marine pollution.

______ drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects.

The play is quite suitable for children to see as there is nothing ______ in it.

The island where these rare birds nest has been declared a(n) ______ where poaching is prohibited.

These days, housework has been made much easier by electrical ______.

Please ______ the milk carefully; I don’t want it to boil over.

Although Ariel arrived ______, we made her welcome just the same as everyone else.

I can't understand why you have to make such a _____ about something so unimportant.

He is a good team leader who always acts ______ in case of emergency.

He built up a successful business but it was all done _______ of his health.

 Poor management brought the company to _______ of collapse.

The equator is an ______ line that divides the Earth into two.

Your mother _____ read a bit of a letter you received because she opened it without looking at the name on the envelope.

When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty ______ paintings were destroyed, including two by Van Gogh.

I can’t possibly lend you any more money; it is quite out of the _____.

You really dropped _____ the other day when you told Brian you’d seen his wife at the cinema. He thought she was at her mother’s.

Although we had told them not to keep us waiting, they made no _____ to speed up deliveries.