Clearly, development aid together with food ______ the long-term solution to the problem of poverty.

 There ______ a knife and two forks on the table. 

—Jeremy rather than his friends ________ for the accident.—Absolutely. He shouldn't have driven after being drunk.

Peter, perhaps John, ____ playing with the little dog.

The number of the students _______ 1200. A number of students _______absent （缺席）yesterday.