An appropriate amount of temporary pressure can ______ a kind of motivation to do something well, but once it becomes constant or permanent, psychological problems are likely to _______.
When the police broke into the room, they were terrified at the scene: a middle-aged man lying on the floor, with a cupboard _______him, his feet and hands ______ tight with electric wires, his throat _____ open and a pair of scissors ______ deep in the chest.