The long speech given by that old professor seemed _____ and endless. He felt so _____ that he nearly fell asleep.

So suddenlythat the animals in the zoo looked very frightened during the total solar eclipse.

It is a truth which is universally _____that wealth doesn’t necessarily mean happiness

No one could have thought that the man _____ should have aone-million-pound note.[ ]

The teacher spoke so fast that it was hard for the students to ______ what he was saying.