The number of people present at the meeting _______ two hundred and a number of them _______ from the countryside. 

A poet and artist ____ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon.

In this hotel, the bread and butter ______served for breakfast. Meanwhile, a knife and fork _____very useful for a foreigner.

A large number of people ______present at the meeting yesterday afternoon.  

 I seldom eat sweet snacks because there ______ too much sugar in them.