--- I can’t go for a picnic with you because something urgent has _____. ---What a shame! 

The retired professor, _____ in his new book in the past three years, hasn’t realized the decline in his health. 

 With the final exams coming, Mark, the top student in our class, is not worried about Chinese, and _________ English.

—Have you got any idea why Mother asks for me?—She wants you to________ your staying up last night.

You never know where happiness will________ next, so grasp every chance around you.

To our surprise, girls ______ more than half of all the students in the school.

 I’ve talked a lot about walking.      , I want to say it is a cheap, safe and enjoyable form of exercise.

 One of the advantages of living on the top of a high building is that you can get a good ______.

Unfortunately, it rained for two weeks, which completely _______ our plan.

In the play, the servant bursts in, next to the queen, ___________.

The boy’s bad behavior at school __________ his mother many sleepless nights.

Had she __________ her promise, she would have made it at Beijing University.

Boys in early adolescence are not _________ to the cinema because the film is not suitable for them.

With the ___________ of making a fortune, many Chinese came to Australia in the 19th century to wash sand for gold.

All of us are busy going over our lessons, as the Mid-term exam is _________.

 Though these dresses are low in quality, they may ____to women who don’t want to spend much on clothes.

Though________money, his parents managed to send him to university. 

Helen has ____French and can speak fluently after a short stay with her aunt in Paris. 

____ with what the students had done, the teacher praised them highly.

 Many Chinese college graduates leave their country to get further education in America with the ______of getting better jobs in the future.