_______ of the heavy burden of homework, the children rushed out of the classroom and enjoyed themselves.
The patient suffering from cancer looked dead but the faint pulse proved that he was still________.
The continuous rain ______ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.
In 1989, a(n) _______law was passed by the United Nations to stop people putting waste into sea.
Whenever a big company ______ a small one, the product almost always gets worse.
In the low latitude area, it is usually very _____ all the year around.