In the old days, some wealthy people killed animals just for the ______ of it.

What he said was of ________.

It was early in the morning and the traffic was _________.

The heat in the desert is__________; therefore there are few plants growing there.

I prefer living in a city because I think it is           to live close to my work.

As the story develops, the young woman has now got a ______ job in a library after several part-time jobs．

The point is that no medicine is ________ for children when they are infected with the hand-foot-mouth disease （HFMD）．
A．alternative              B．absurd             
C．available       D．harmony

Don’t expect too much of them．They are suffering from a _________ of money themselves．

The old man lives         at home but he never feels _________.

My classmate Lily is         in English because she once stayed in the U.S. for several years.