There are so many new words in the passage thatI could hardly make any ________ of it.

ices of houses, ____________ is oftenreported, have been going up sharply in the past few months

The exam starts at9:00 tomorrow morning—___________ I failto arrive there on time

past decades, sea ice ______ in the Arctic as aresult of global warming

Rosy came in for _____coffee and told me _____firecrackers outside kept her awake last night