Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.

 Lacking rain, many river in Yunnan province have ______ recently.

The woman ______ in the accident should be sent to the hospital at once.

The year 1949 _____the birth of a new country---the People’s Republic of China.

 She is a well­known doctor now, but she ________ as a cleaner at the hospital for five years.