Linda’s parents died when she was a baby, and she was _________by her aunt.

My uncle _______ from the government as a result of his poor health.

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

 At last, we found ourselves at the foot of a hill with trees providing shade and      ________  down to eat our picnic lunch.

— It is around 100 years, known to us all, ______ the first modern Olympic Games was held.— It really is. But were _____ ?