—Are you absent from the meeting?—Yes, who______it would rain!

—Thank you very much for giving me a hand when I was in trouble.—Don’t mention it. I only did what anyone else ______ in my place.

---Do you feel like walking to the cinema or      we take a bus? ---I’d like to walk. But since there isn’t much time left, I’d rather we      a taxi.

—George, ___   _ you sing so loudly at such a late hour? —I am terribly sorry．

_____there be a flood this summer, what would we do?