He never（）to read the news but turned at once to the crossword puzzle on the last page.

She couldn't（）laughing at him in those clothes.

She had clearly no（）of doing any work, although she was very well paid.

The survivors（）to a floating tree in hopes of rescue.

The student's first attempt at writing a play was a far（）from the work of Shakespeare.

The aircraft vanished without（）

I could not persuade him to accept it,（）make him see the importance of it.

An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends

I was（）than angry when I saw how they'd ruined the landscape.