1. Orwell ____ at that moment that when the white man ____ tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

2. When I ____ as a fully licensed geneticist in 1961, I thought I knew everything there was ____ about genetics.

3. By the late 1980s, a surge of prosperity ____ across southeast Asia, but in some countries of the region the economic structure ____ sufficiently to the benefit from this trend.

4. All the reports ____ handed in last week, but some of them still ____ me.

5. There have been some art critics who ____ in depreciation of Van Gogh that he ____ a draughtsman all his life.

6. The Romanian Privatization Authority announced last week that Renault of France ____ to be the sole bidder for a majority stake in the national car company, Dacia, which ____ cheap cars for the domestic market.

7. At the Brussels meeting over the last weekend Madeleine Albright, The American secretary of State, ____ her allies that future NATO missions ____ them further afield, but not all over the world.

8. The report presents a general overview of the problems that ____ when a disaster ____ nation.

9. With the help of satellite images, the Indonesian government ____ that it is the timber companies which ____ the mass destruction of their rain forests.

10. By the time he _____ his report to the screening committee, others _____ up with better proposals.