In the country guests tend to feel they are not highly __________ if the invitation to a dinner party is given only three or four days before the party date.

I had wanted to take the career of being a model, but I ________ not good at dealing with constant media attention.

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

When the question _____ at the meeting, no one could answer it.

---Does your brother serve in the army?---No, not now. But he ________ in the army for 8 years.