. —Why are you so frightened?
—I saw two dark _______ enter the building.

The next morning Mr. Smithson spoke his mind to his wife in a very straightforward _______.

The world has twice as much shipbuilding _______ as it needed in the 1980s.

A(n) _______ will be paid to anyone who brings back the money Mr. Brown lost, according to the advertisement.

.What a _______ that dress makes! She looks very pretty now.

The black furnishings in his house provide an interesting ____ to the white walls．

In my opinion, the _______ girl really has _______ for oil painting.
A. gifted; gift        B gifting; a gifted      C. gift; gift        D. gifted; a gift

Smoking is one of the ______ of heart disease and it kills lots of people every year.

His new appointment takes _____ from the beginning of next month.

It was a great _____ for him to be pleasant to people he didn’t like.