The bad weather _______ our trip.

Lan Lan _______her pace of walking home fearing that it was going to rain.

— Why does he walk like that? It seems that he has great difficulty in walking.  — Because he got ____ in an accident three years ago.

Billy kept asking his mother whether he could go to the movies and she          at last.

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