—But for your timely warning, we _________ into great trouble. —Well, you know we’re friends.

—___the new comer join us in the work?—Certainly! We are short of hands presently．

—Pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution. —I _____it, but I was busy preparing for a job interview.

Where have you been ?— I_______in the heavy traffic .Otherwise I_______ here earlier.

Just imagine performing such an opera as Turandot in the Forbidden City there _____ be a better setting!