---- Have you heard that a building was blown up last weekend with a number of people in it?---- Yes, _____ news came as _____ shock to me.
What________pity that he couldn't be here to receive________prize.
—Would you mind beginning No. 6? —________.
He was almost________to death at the sight of the________scene.
The babysitter was________by the demands of her young charges and she just wanted to lie on bed and have a rest.
There's a rumor________that he is going to resign.