—Why weren’t you at the meeting? —I____ for a long distance call from my sister in America.
Being determined is a kind of quality and that’s ________ it takes to do anything properly.
________, the idea of having to work under a woman defeated him.
______ everyone else wouldn’t go to the mountain area, he went without a second thought.
They have enough vegetables and food here. So I don’t think they need ______.
—How did you do on the test? —Not so well. I ______much better, but I misread the directions for Part One.