I’m writing to apologize for my absence from last week’s meeting. I was unexpectedly ________ at work.

With world economic crisis worsening, people _______ the government for more unemployment benefits.

Now many people move into cities in order to have their children __________.

The film fans all ______ when they learned that Jackie Chan and Jet Li would pair up for the first time in the action film．

As there is no butter, we shall have to ______ ourselves ______ dry bread.