The survivors（）to a floating tree in hopes of rescue.

Anne（）from outside her home last Wednesday.

I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat（）

She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends

People appreciate（）with him because he has a good sense of humor.

She had clearly no（）of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

The weakening housing market continued to take its（）on the industry.

The student's first attempt at writing a play was a far（）from the work of Shakespeare.

Mr. Edward was not in, so his brother acted as （）at the party.

Many students found the book （）;it provided them with a large amount of information on the subject.