—Did you sleep well last night? — No, the loud noise from the street ______ me awake for hours.

The opportunity Jack had looked forward________at last when he was named chief engineer in the project.

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

 Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.

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