She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends

Inquiries（）the condition of the patients may be made personally or by telephone.

I want you to succeed without（）and firmly believe that you will succeed if you try hard enough.

I was（）than angry when I saw how they'd ruined the landscape.

She had clearly no（）of doing any work, although she was very well paid.