The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to _____ rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways to deal with its own problems.

My house is very _____ for getting to work as it is only a few minutes from the station.

. Don't _____ the news to the public until we give you the go-ahead (许可，准许).

The storm sweeping over this area now is sure to cause _____ of vegetables in the coming days.

Expected noises are usually more _____ than unexpected ones of the like magnitude.

The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.

We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.

The writer was always looking for suitable _____ to use in his next story.

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

The firemen managed to _____ the fire in time.