Rather than _____ a bus to her workplace, Susan prefers ______ a taxi.

(南京市2008—2009学年度第一学期期末调研测试卷)The financial crisis and the suffering ______ has caused have a great influence on the whole world.

It ______ six years since they last saw each other.

The little girl _______ go to the cinema rather than _______ at home alone that night. 

So far, all of the infected people are thought _______ the flu after direct contact with sick birds.