Children who are over-protected by their parents may become ________.

The sad mother ______ crying when the reporter asked about her son’s death.

(2013·山西大学附属中学期中测试) The news of a famous educator's coming to our school for a visit was ________ on the radio yesterday.

—Oh, I've just locked my keys in my office again.—You're always so careless, but ________ let's see what we can do about it.

 Some modern art is so abstract that the painter only concentrates on certain qualities of the object, using colour, line and shape to _______ them.