The film Let the Bullets Fly _____ a great success and brought in a large profit to the cinema．

 The car ran down the hill, and the driver _____, according to the newspaper, to have been killed. 

---How is your mother doing? Is she ________? --Oh, thank you. As a matter of fact, she _______. 

By next summer John _____in this factory for thirteen years.

 Over the past decades, the population in this country      because of the rising birth rate, immigration and the declining death rate.