— I’ll come to see your performance at 9:00 tomorrow evening.— Sorry, but by then my performance _______ and I ______ reporters in the meeting room. 

-He sighed again and the failure in physics seemed to have completely    his confidence.

The government of China has________time and time again its position on the relations between China and Japan.

The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ______ his notes.

Sweet memories ______ as I looked at the pictures _____were taken at the beach last summer.