Thanks to the joint efforts made by the leaders of China and the US over recent years, mutually _______ Sino-US relations have made remarkable progress.

 — Have you ____ your brother to give up smoking? — No. I talked to him yesterday but he would not listen.

 It is really important for parents to reach a ______ between what they want and what their kids desire.

It is necessary for children to exchange ideas with parents from time to time so that the generation gap between parents and children can be _________.

Jess was sad and her friend helped her ________the first awful weeks after her husband Bill died.