Choose the correct answer.

35. What you're saying now ____________ what you said earlier.

36. The speaker stopped ____________ his notes before continuing.

37. I read somewhere that the youngest ____________ in a family is often the funniest.

38. Many people consider Davies ____________ the finest artist of his generation.

39. After the investigation, the accident was put down to human ____________

40. Do you think the generation ____________ between parents and teenagers is getting wider?

41. Everyone started to ____________ around the old woman on the floor, but no one offered her any help.

42. Rebecca didn't deserve ____________ punished quite so severely, if you ask me.