I want you to succeed without（）and firmly believe that you will succeed if you try hard enough.

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

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

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

Mr. Edward was not in, so his brother acted as （）at the party.

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

She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends

She couldn't（）laughing at him in those clothes.

Shall we request the chairman（）our suggestion again?

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