An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

I just managed to（）a quick breath before I was pulled under the water by the passing boats.

Inquiries（）the condition of the patients may be made personally or by telephone.

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

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

Shall we request the chairman（）our suggestion again?

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

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

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

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