—Have you ________ him to keep good hours?  —Yes, I have. But he doesn’t listen to me.

He was wild with joy when he ______ a solution to the difficult problem.

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

My uncle ______ until he was forty –five. 

 I don’t know why he ________ in the middle of a sentence.