The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature _____ to Mo Yan, Chinese writer ,whose novel Red Sorghum was successfully filmed in 1987.

— How is your sister?— She _______ quite good after the operation, but she is taking a turn for the worse today.

During the Olympic torch relay, thousands of people __________ in either side of the street.

 The couple who were not _______ to each other ended up in divorce.

The army officer _______ his men to fire as soon as the enemies came up.