The chairman asked me to  __________ the report, because he didn’t want to speak for too long at this meeting.

-- Do you think we should accept the offer? -- Yes,we should, we ________ such bad luck up till now, and time _______ out.

 The Australian boy has a good ________ of Chinese and can express himself freely in it.

 These kinds of shoes ________ well. 

 With the aim of getting high marks, most Chinese students were ________ lacking creativity.