Though brought up in Los Angeles, Steven Davidson spent his whole life      in New York．

Sometimes parents’ control of young kids will be thought to be such an invisible rope, with which to tie them tightly, that they _____ tried to cut it.

—You don't seem to be quite yourself today. What's wrong?—Oh, I'm suffering from a cold. Nothing serious,______

Tourism,    it brings in money to a country,can also result in damage to the World Heritage sites there.

Honestly speaking, I would agree with Shirley, though not ______.