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

Many students found the book （）;it provided them with a large amount of information on the subject.

Anne（）from outside her home last Wednesday.

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

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

Some say yes and others say no; I don't know （）to follow.

I don't know who on（）stole the diamond last night.

The weakening housing market continued to take its（）on the industry.

An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

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