---What’s that unpleasant noise?---Oh, the road before the main gate ______.

Every means ______ tried but without any result.

I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I ____ to half a dozen other groups.

To________the global financial crisis，our country has worked out a string of forceful measures over the past months.

Whenever Steve sang in the shower, his voice _______ throughout the house.