1. He got annoyed, saying it wasn’t his fault if he couldn’t play as well as me, and that I shouldn’t talk to him in this ________. Then we both started shouting at each other and it turned into a ________ argument.

2. Friendships between girls are usually ________ in shared feelings and support, but friendships between boys are .... A boy is ________ to be ________ about sharing his feelings with his close friends.

3. The best way to have a friend is to be a friend. Because I am a friend, I have had to learn patience and ________. Once I had a quarrel with Jenny, and she make some cruel ________ about me.

4. While we damage our environment, we keep producing more and more people who need more land to live on and more food to eat! The world’s population has grown ________ six times what it was in 1800. The ________ is now about 7 billion people.

5. This is not good news for the people who ________ on the Yangtze River for water. Nor is it good news for the wide ________ of fish and wildlife that live in or along the river.

6. Cars and other ________burn petrol in their engines, and ________ power plants most often burn ________ such as coal and oil in order to produce electricity.

7. On the other hand, many people, ________ some scientists, disagree and are afraid that, if mankind ________ with nature in this way, we may be on our way to ________ a real-life Frankenstein’s monster.