He m (a)   d a reply, but nobody could understand what he said.

I felt o (a)   d to lend George my car because he had lent me his.

The bath o (a)   d because I wasn’t paying attention.

The reason I was late for work this morning was that I o (a)   t.

A car o (a)   d on the freeway, but luckily there were no fatalities.

The girl was o (a)   d with quilt after she lied to her mother.

The dart p (a)   d the bear’s thick skin, causing it to howl in pain.

Mom said it was okay for me to get my ears p (a)   d.

The temperature p (a)   d to below zero in just a few days.

The dog couldn’t stop p (a)   after running around the park.

那隻狗在公園到處跑之後便喘個不停

We p (a)   the water by boiling it for half an hour.

我們把水煮沸半小時使它淨化

The hiker q (a)   his thirst with a gulp of water from his bottle.

那名登山客從他的水瓶喝一大口水解渴

The monk r (a)   peace and love no matter where he went.

那名僧侶不管去到哪都在散播和平與愛

The police stopped the robbers’ armed r (a)   on the bank.

警方阻攔了武裝搶匪行搶銀行

Every time a train passed by, the r (a)   of the windows made the family nervous.

每次一有火車經過，窗戶的嘎嘎聲就會讓那家人很緊張

Forest fires r (a)   the protected wildlife area.

森林大火破壞了野生生物保護區

I’m going to do what I want to do, r (a)   of what other people think.

我要去做我想做的事，才不管別人怎麼想

The speaker r (a)   her argument with the newly published official statistics.

演說者用官方新發表的統計數字來加強她的論點

Jim r (a)   his anger toward his supervisor lest it ruin the chances of a promotion.

吉姆極力抑制他對他主管的怒氣，以免毀掉升遷的機會