The criminal, as well as some ______ people, was arrested by the police yesterday.

I was not _______her presence till she spoke to me.     

Researchers in Italy say    drinking may lengthen your life, while too much may shorten it.

The      house smells as if it hasn’t been lived in for years.

In the meantime, the question facing business is whether such research is   the cost.

What’s the   temperature in Beijing during April?

On the celebration of the university’s 100^th birthday, he said, “I have never experienced __________ time here as a graduate of Tsinghua University.”

His increasing financial difficulties made him so ____ for a job that he would have done anything.

Sex education is a sensitive area for some parents, and thus it should remain _________.

A _______ number of mothers with young children are stopped from undertaking paid work because they lack access to childcare.