It wasn’t until nearly a month later          I received the manager’s reply.

We had much difficulty __________ home in the snowstorm.

_______seems to be no possibility ______Li Hua can win the first prize in the 100 – meter race.

— According to my grandma, it is a good idea to eat chicken soup when you have a cold.— ________, scientists agree with her.

___       is well known is that Africa had contacts with India and the Red Sea civilizations from the earliest times．