1. Please be ________ when you cross this road.

2. When you first meet someone, you usually shake them ________ the hand.

3. He sometimes pretends he can't ________ a single word you are saying but all the time he's taking it all in.

4. As far as I was concerned when the accident happened, it was the ________ of the end.

5. The brothers will ________ school both together at the end of this year.

6. I'm terribly sorry but I ________ what you said just now and I wonder if you could repeat it.

7. You've been making so much noise with your music that people at the far end of the road can ________ you.

8. I ________ what you are saying but that still doesn't make me want to change my mind one little bit.

9. I can't ________ to understand why anyone would want to be cruel to animals.

10. If you want to ________ that book remember to bring it back.