Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with the words or phrases from the box. (You may not know the meaning of all the words. Look such words up in a dictionary or ask your teacher.)

1. Some people find household ___chores_______ a bore, but I like to help at home.

2. Who stole the diamond is still a __mystery_______.

3. This ___semester_______ we are going to have a class exhibition.

4. ________True to his words _ , the elf began to help Patrick.

5. Can you ___look up______ this word in the dictionary?

6. I started early to be on time, but I was __out of luck________ . There was a traffic jam!

7. She says she’s got a lot of books, but __between you and me_______ , I think most of them are borrowed.