25.A heavy drought is hitting the south-west part of China, ______severe problems for hundreds and thousands of people and cattle to get fresh drinking water.
Some people hold that, since we live in a money-oriented society, the average individual cares little about solving ______ problems.
Contemporary English is quite different from Old English. There has never been a year ______ the language was not changing.
This is the most important assignment facing American journalism — to make _____ clear to the reader the problems of the day.
He was so absorbed in his work that not a sound ______.
The singing group was so well received that the size of audience, ___ we had expected, was well over one hundred.