--- Could I ask you a rather personal question?--- Of course, _________.
. As soon as the children were _____, their mother got them out of bed and into the bathroom.
. Jim was so badly burnt that at first they began to _____ of his life.
The government's strong action demonstrated its _____ to crush the rebellion.
. New mineral resources may be discovered during the forthcoming Antarctic _____.
. Probability is the mathematical study of the _____ of an event's occurrence.