He（）for military service against the wishes of his parents.

We forgave her anger because we knew that her father's illness had put her under great （）

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

The survivors（）to a floating tree in hopes of rescue.

He never（）to read the news but turned at once to the crossword puzzle on the last page.

Mr. Sanders has been asked to（）the next meeting of the committee.

I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat（）

The noise of the traffic（）Paul from his work.

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

（）students often find it difficult to live in China at first.