Mary couldn’t make herself ________ attention to because her classmates made so much noise.

After the Six­Party Talk in Beijing, an agreement was reached _____that North Korea would abandon（放弃）_____ nuclear weapons.

With the financial crisis _____ across the globe, a lot of companies have shut down and many people have been out of work. 

_____in a friendly way ,their quarrel came to end ．

Much to my _______, most of the people ______ to the party were old friends.