72.The（ ）that sport builds character is well accepted by people nowadays.

73.Professor Johnson’s retirement（ ）from next January.

72.The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a（ ）.

71.Thousands of people turned out into the streets to（ ）against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.

70.His ideas are invariably condemned as（ ）by his colleagues.

69.The director tried to get the actors to（ ）to the next scene by hand signals.

68.We realized that he was under great（ ）, so we took no notice of his bad temper.

67.There are still many problem ahead of us, but by his time next year we can see light at the end of the（ ）.

66.—— Why are you staring?—— I’ve never seen（ ）tree before.

65.Children who stay away from school do（ ）for different reasons.

64.He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do,（ ）that he paid me back the following week.