In the last decade, Chicago public schools ________ teaching of Chinese to serve 12,000 students.

A balloon             as it is filled with air.

The weight-loss pills really ______ and she is becoming slimmer and slimmer.

---Are you still busy?---Yes, I ____ my work, and it won’t take long.

As the years passed, many occasions—birthdays, awards, graduations—________ with Dad’s flowers.