_______property together with many other things, life is more precious, so we should never ______and try whatever we can to protect it.

 A. Compared to; risk it                        B. Compared with; run risk of it 

With his head covered with ashes, sweat streaming down his face and his whole body trembling, I ______he must be feeling extremely uncomfortable and he ________ in some sort of accident.

  A. dare say; must have been caught               B. bet; must have been caught

C. must say; must be caught                         D. am sure; me caught

I was so _______ in my reading of the documents about our company’s expansion plan in my uncle’s office  that I was ________ of the danger that was coming near. 

_________the college girl was enjoying the rainbow after the thunderstorm when she fell down from the balcony of a six-storey building and got killed.

Specialists came to _____ the loss that was caused by the big fire, in which too many buildings were burned to the ground and too many people were burned to death. They worked out a number but the actual number might be _______

People’s character _______ greatly from one to another, which accounts for the ______of different behaviors in the same situation, without which behaviors would become uniform and the world would be less colorful.

Half way up the mountain and ready to shoot at the wolf the hunter had been running after, he heard something sounding like a thunder coming out of the mountain from the top and then he saw something red ________into the sky. Only then did he realize that it was volcano eruption; he got into ______ and began to run downhill like mad for life.

A wave of fear and anxiety swept over the mother when she heard over the radio that a typhoon up to 14 scales was _______ to the sea area where her husband and her three sons were fishing and she became extremely _______ their safety

 A. on its way; anxious about                  B. made its ways worried about

C. in its way; panic about                     D. by its way; serious about

His appreciation of potential dangers of writing about the bad sides of society didn’t stop the novelist from writing his novels, exposing abuses of powers, corruption of high officials and so on, which _______ great appreciation from a large number of readers.

The hurricane _______the city _______surprise, after which little remained undamaged ______it