The discovery of gold in Sahara Desert led thousands to believe that a fortune________.

Miss Li ___ as a secretary for five years in the company, and now she is general manager of it.

At sixty, Maugham decided to withdraw from the theater and wrote The Summer Up, in which he tried to review what he________ from his life and literature

 I ______ the novel by the time you ______ back next week.

—— Was the driving pleasant when you went to Mexico last summer? —— No, it ＿＿＿＿ for four days when we arrived, so the roads were very muddy.