In 1492，Columbus ________ on one of the Bahama islands，but he mistook it for an island off India.

I’m familiar with you because your name ____ in our yesterday’s conversation many times.

In the country guests tend to feel they are not highly __________ if the invitation to a dinner party is given only three or four days before the party date.

My parents expected too much of me. When they heard that I hadn’t passed the college entrance examination, they almost ______. 

A pilot climbed into the jet and off he ______, leaving the ground far behind.