61.I thought the party I was invited to was a quiet and private one, but as it turned out, I was ______ by the crowds and noise.

39.A native New Yorker, Ben is ______ with the city, its neighborhoods, and all he has connections with.

38.The travel agency apologized to the clients who missed the tour bus. In addition, it for the additional travelling costs.

37.______ living is the practice of providing for your own needs without outside aid or resources.

36.News ______ through from Bombay last night of a city on strike and tourists stuck at the airport.

35.In the interview, the writer was asked how he ______ writing a novel based on a dream he once haD.

34.They built a fireplace to heat the small flat, but there were nights when the fire ______ and they shivered under the blanket.

33.An increasingly large number of Chinese plan to spend their time traveling to different countries and seeing more of the world when they ______.

32.The research team has made all necessary preparations for the project to start and they are frustrated to learn that it is to be ______ indefinitely.

31.A central heating and cooling _____ produces warm or cool air in one central area and distributes it throughout the building.

30.The elderly landlady couldn’t ______ the behavior of the young man any more: he tossed trash all over the building.