My father loves ____ jokes to us.

With the nuclear crisis worsening in Iran, the world’s attention is fixed again on is called the Middle East

Even though his friends like to ___ him,he never takes it seriously. [ ]

．It iswell known that the Internet will let people have __________ to huge amounts ofinformation from their own homes.

The Education Ministry proposed guidelines to decrease the amount of the homework given to students each day, _______ well above what they can endure.