With consumers searching _______ ways to cut daily expenses, officials from the National Bureau of Statistics' economic monitoring center say there's no need _______.

 These MP4s are more advanced, but they are ________ the previous ones in price.

A government official was murdered last Friday and the police are collecting information that is        to the case.

 —We’ve had three whole weeks without a drop of rain. —True. No crops will _____ if the dry weather continues. 

I took it _____ that he would be glad to accept my invitation, but he didn’t at all.