He ______ his sister to give up the plan for cycling along the Mekong River, but failed. 

 In May 2005 he _____the news to his parents that he intended to give up law and become a professional ballet dancer.

I ________ in London for many years，but I've never regretted my final decision to move back to China.

All of us still remember the terrible earthquake that______Tangshan twenty years ago.

Bob looked back only to find an old classmate whose name ________ him for the moment.