American women were______ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.

 When I saw the cars crash in the road, a frightened feeling ______ across my mind.

Lawrence’s novel was rejected at first, but it later came to be ______ as a work of genius.

He was a bit nervous. He _________his spare breath with a soft sound that was almost heard by the audience.

(2014·安徽省芜湖三校一模)A recent study has  ________an unexpected conclusion that the African elephant should be divided into two different species.