1) If you had had a ______ of consideration for your family, you wouldn’t have taken so many stupid risks. 2) Due to the lack of an adequate labor force, even women in this village were ____ to work in the coal mines. 3) We went through lovely countryside with great mountains, some of them beautiful and green and wooded, whole others _____ and wild. 4) The cleaner took off his coat and began _______ the ashes from the furnace with his bare hands. 5) People in that area are already threatened with environmental ______ since 60% of the forest there has been destroyed. 6) The auto company has been a huge increase in the _____ of private cars this year due to the improved working efficiency. 7) Under severe attack from enemy aircraft, the troops were forced to ______ from the front. 8) When I came up to a giraffe lying on the grasses, I found that it had been killed with a spear ______ with poison. 9) He stayed eight days in an open boat with no food, and he was still alive; his survival was a(n) ________. 10) Survival of the Fittest is a(n) ________ truth of nature.