–The Wall Street Journal is giving me a laptop with Windows XP, an operating system I found satisfying when it first _____ eight years ago.–Are you sure? You must be talking big.

Steve Jobs, American former Apple CEO and founder, ______ a week after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, was a person who changed the world. 

I often have a hard time _______myself from my bed or even rolling over to write everything have dreamt in my notebook.

After he retired from office, Rogers_______ painting for a while, but soon lost interest.

Soon all the people at the meeting_____ on the discussion of developing the local education.