1. I can't ________ to understand why anyone would want to be cruel to animals.

2. After the children had ________ doing their homework, the whole family watched television.

3. I'm terribly sorry but I ________ what you said just now and I wonder if you could repeat it.

4. I ________ to the concert every Monday on the radio and I imagine I am there listening to it in person.

5. You can't miss it, it's that tall building right at the ________ of the road.

6. I read the ________ of that book but I couldn't possibly read the whole story.

7. I won a lot of money by betting on that horse but it was simply a case of ________ luck.

8. If you want to ________ that book remember to bring it back.

9. We ________ off early on the first day of summer so that we could see the sun rise.

10. You could tell the time by him because he always ________ work at exactly the same time every day.