The _____ of his clothes indicated too clearly that he had been playing football.

A. state    B. condition   C. occasion     D. situation

I support your decision, but I should also make it clear that I am not going to be _____ to it.

A. connected    B. fastened    C. bound    D. stuck

Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had _____ two days before.

   A. broken off    B. passed off

   C. given away    D. passed away

I remember her face but I cannot _____ where I met her.

A. recall    B. remind    C. remember    D. remark

While typing, Helen has a habit of stopping _____ to give her long and flowing hair a smooth.

   A. occasionally    B. simultaneously

   C. eventually      D. directly

These continual _____ in temperature make it impossible to decide what to wear.

A. alterations  B. vibrations C. waves   D. fluctuations

He's _____ drink and never does a stroke of work.

        A. gone to            B. taken to                    C. taken up            D. gone for

In a typhoon, winds _____ a speed greater than 120 kilometers per hour.

        A. assume                 B. accomplish                 C. attain                  D. assemble

Though _____ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.

   A. raised                    B. grown                    C. developed                    D. cultivated

John was very upset because he was _____ by the police with breaking the law.

        A. accused                   B. arrested                   C. sentenced                   D.charged