1. They were experiencing the first storm since the voyage started, the wind was so fast that the ship ________ and people from the deck started falling out of it in the open sea.

2. Managers prefer to select people who have been ________ to many different types of office environments.

3. My head ________ at the thought of jumping out of an airplane.

4. I was asked how many tests I would write and I said the sky's the ________ in other words as many as possible.

5. There is a substantial ________ between the money you have available and the amount you need to spend.

6. We will make no ________ for the catalogue, which you can take with our compliments.

7. On her retirement she was given a substantial cheque in ________ of all the work she had done over the last 20 years.

8. When you take out a large loan over many years, you don't start paying off the ________ for some time.

9. Interest ________ are at their lowest level since the 1950's.

10. The little boy ________ and almost fell down while chasing the ball, but he regained his balance again.