Mr. Painter wanted to design a new system to ________ the water in his garden in heavy rains.
A. retreat B. drain
C. tremble D. shrink
New Zealand is home to around 16，000 bird ____，double the number in all Europe.
A. cures B. residents
C. budgets D. species
Charlie took a deep breath and _______ his courage to tell his wife the truth.
A. vanished B. summoned
C. defended D. trembled
He has a／an ______ sense of foreboding that his son died in the front line.
A. furious B. severe
C. ethical D. acute
The doctor tried to _________ me that my mother would be fine.
A. whistle B. emerge
C. reassure D. bend
The authorities feared that concerns about air pollution might ______ with smoggy weather continuing.
A. edit B. recover
C. erupt D. install
