After three hours' discussion, the meeting finally ________ without any agreement on the issue.

—Have you ________ him to keep good hours?  —Yes, I have. But he doesn’t listen to me.

–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.

—The heavy snow hasn't caused any inconvenience to people in Nanjing, has it?—Yes. Just imagine the city ________ with nearly 20 centimeters of snow one night.

The Moonstone was ________in a real story which ________in England in the 1790s.