After three hours' discussion, the meeting finally ________ without any agreement on the issue.

The earthquake almost ___ all the bridges in this area, and they were beyond repair.

The 1930s __________ the suffering of the Chinese from war.

Generally speaking, every child wants to be _________ when he does something good.

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