The famous reporter, who is said to go back to America next month, _____in China for almost twenty years. 

 ---I’m very sorry to have ___ you with so many questions. ---It doesn’t matter.

— Alvin，are you coming with us?—I'd love to，but something unexpected ________.

Because of the bad weather, my mother ____ and lay in bed. She ______ for a week. 

 Kate  ________    on her new novel, which is supposed to come out next month.