Complete the following passage by supplying the correct form of the word to fill in each blank.
There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life, I have found this to be true apart from one notable exception of a good friend and neighbor with whom my first (2) ______ was decidedly unfriendly. At the time of our first meeting I was living in a (3) __________ area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway and this meant that although it was a (4) ____________ street, even with the (5) _______ will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used to really annoy me and I have to admit I did often go a bit (6) ________ in expressing my anger even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a (7) ________ chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an enormous sense of (8) ______. But then the driver of the car opened his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me. So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to find an apology note from the same motorist in my mail box explaining that in an attempt to (9) _______ his career as an up and coming IT (10) ______, he had been driving too fast the previous evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his wife.
There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct and I would say that (1) _______ throughout my entire life,
