1. Chief executives then start making pleasant speeches and smile a lot because they want to ________ the concerns of their borrowers.

2. Inquiries are held which seem to go on forever and you only wish that the procedure could be ________ .

3. Apparently when he was still at school, he didn't have a ticket for his train journey one day and he was ________ .

4. Of course we all get ________ with endless leaflets through the door telling us of bargains at the local supermarket.

5. When you tell the inhabitants of a small village that the little local store is going to close, many will express ________ .

6. Invariably if interest rates go up, the building societies pay more to their savers and borrowers complain at the increase they have to pay and maintain the societies are ________ their affairs.

7. You sit in the passenger seat and ________ your learner to do what you would normally do.

8. In my ________ none of this happened all I did was shout and scream, which made me feel better.

9. If you do lose one of them or both, your learner will lose confidence and also lose ________ of the car.

10. Whenever there is a meeting between the finance minister and the governor of the bank, people start asking questions and rumours ________ .