The hotel is almost finished, but it _____ needs one or two weeks to get ready for guests.

He said he would come . He didn't _______.

.—Jenny, I've finished my summer school classes.—Well, Chinese is _______ difficult to learn, isn't it?—It seemed that _______ at first. But after a while it starts to get easier. I got an A in the exam.

China needs to strike a balance between maintaining a ______ fast and stable development and economic structural adjustment. 

Fred is second to none in English in our class, but believe it or not, he _____ passed the last exam.