Rubbish____to give light after this kind of new machine is invented.
17. Children brought up in cities are often full of _______ about how beans, peas, cucumbers, eggplants, mushrooms carrots, which they eat as daily vegetables, _______.
16. There was so much noise produced by the machine outside that the professor had to ______ his voice so that it would not ________.
15. A group of children ______ around the old man, listening to him telling the story and they ______ when it came to something really exciting.
14. Day and night, the little boy is at his computer, playing computer games, as if ______ with them.
13. In common ______ other boys of his age, my young son is looking forward to _______ the permission to date.