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III. Blank filling: Fill in each blank with a suitable word. tolerate preferable critical confront obsessed with benefit apt to deny carefree take up with 1. He was ________ a craving for materialistic gratification. 2. My father is not one to readily ________ new ideas. 3. I hope what I have written will be of ________ to someone else who may feel the same way. 4. The speaker hammered his point home with examples that the listeners could not ________. 5. He turned his face to look up at the sky in a ________ manner. 6. Environmentalists say a ________ factor in the city’s pollution is its population. 7. I was ________ fidget a good deal during the long performance. 8. Many people find gradual change ________ to sudden, large-scale changes. 9. They happily ________ the existence of opinions contrary to their own. 10. He ________ me with the task of designing and building the new system.