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

The little boy _____on the mat ____ to his parents that blackbirds had _____their eggs on Mars．

 He never    to help others in trouble because he is a kind-hearted man. 

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

 I had planned to invite Tom to the party to increase the atmosphere, but it turned out that his arrival ____ the atmosphere.