In those years, poverty ______, hungry farmers wandered about the countryside.

With all his homework ____,he went swimming with his friends.

Have you heard of it ? Firefighters rushed into a burning house, three of them unfortunately       in and         their lives.

The little girl sat at the door with her legs ___ and kept her eyes ___at the planes flying in the sky. 

 _____the problem of land erosion getting more serious, the government is searching for a way to deal with it.