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

The flooding      the bridge, so we can’t walk across it forever.

I’ll never forget the good trick my classmates ________ on me when I was in the primary school.

It was his laziness and his rudeness that ______ his success.

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