Vincent van Gogh’s paintings were at last _____ as works of genius.

When the young man was shown the evidence, he _______ and told everything he had done to the police. 

In fact, he ______ in bed all the morning without doing anything, but he _____to me about that.  

 She is a well­known doctor now, but she ________ as a cleaner at the hospital for five years.

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