The bus crashed into a truck in front of it, ______ 40 deaths and more wounded. 

The meeting was expected to start at 9 o'clock but the manager didn't turn up ______ twenty minutes later.

— I'd rather go to the Blue Moon Restaurant because I prefer soft music while eating. —  _________ Loud music makes me tense.

.I dislike__________when I am left alone to start a conversation with a stranger.

—Miss Wang, I hear that you ________ for Beijing. Have you got everything ready? —Almost.