My mother asked me where _____, and I told her that I was going to buy some food.

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

They were surrounded by the enemy, but finally they _____ out of the encirclement.

The year 1949 _____the birth of a new country---the People’s Republic of China.

 It _______ that Chinese football team beat Japanese team at the last moment in the Universiade in Shenzhen.