题目内容：

请认真阅读下列各个小题，并根据上下文语境和所给首字母的提示，写出下列各句空格中的单词，注意保持语义和形式的一致。请将答案的完整形式写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

1.— Can I ask you a few fairly s____ questions about yourself?

— Sure. I like it when people are direct.

2.— With two sons studying at college, the couple have to work from dawn till d____.

— Life must be really hard for them.

3.— A medical study showed that the more fruits the adults had eaten when they were young, the less likely they were to suffer from certain types of cancer.

— Do you mean a high consumption of fruit was a____ with a lower death rate?

4.— When the Americans objected to the tax rates, what did the British do?

— They did not compromise, but increased control, taking away many of their rights, and s____ soldiers there.

5.— Due to the theory of relativity, time became a more personal concept

— Yes, it is relative to the o____ who measured it.