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

 Up to now, our society ________ with limited living space and a shortage of natural resources.

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

 The house is dirty because it ________ since they moved out.

In the last few years thousands of films ________ all over the world.