Complete the sentences with the following adjectives. half-hearted brave desperate final repeated unsuccessful deliberate first 1. I was pleased when I passed my driving test at the ..................... attempt. 2. The driver of the train died at the scene of the accident despite ..................... attempts by the paramedics to revive him. 3. Despite falling and injuring his leg, Jim made a ..................... attempt to finish the marathon. 4. I made a rather ..................... attempt to apologise for my behaviour, but it was obvious that I didn’t really mean it. 5. I’ve made several ..................... attempts to speak to the manager, but he is always ‘out of the office at the moment’. 6. For two weeks the army made ..................... attempts to break through enemy lines, all of which ended in failure. 7. If the weather holds, the Chinese team are going to make a ..................... attempt to reach the summit tomorrow. 8. The Foreign Secretary’s speech on the Gulf War was a ..................... attempt to embarrass the government.