— Alice, have you heard that the grocery store down the street was ______, and nearly all the things there were stolen?— God! Really? That’s horrible!

It was in so poor light that I couldn't _________ what the newspaper said. 

She_____writing the report after breakfast and handed it in at noon.

At sixty, Maugham decided to withdraw from the theater and wrote The Summer Up, in which he tried to review what he _______ from his life and literature.

The paper studies some _______ cases in which something somehow wrong leads to the miscommunication, so that English teachers may improve their teaching.