When I was in the countryside, I ____ by the riverside every day.

The book has been translated into thirty laguages since it ____ on the market in 1973. 

There is too much rain these days, isn’t there ?  —Yes, it ___ for a week.

He _____ as a national hero for winning the first gold medal for his country in the Olympics.

—What is the price of petrol these days?  —Oh，it ________ sharply since last month.

The woman will think of her own child ______ she ______ these little children.

— No one answered when I phoned this morning. Where were you?— I         for teeth in the dental clinic.

— Do you still remember how we first met?— Yes, you ________ to my office and ran into me on the way.

After school we went to the reading-room to do some reading, only to be told that it       .

In order to find the missing boy, the young couple            all they can over the past twenty-four hours. 

The interviewer will begin to judge you as soon as he or she ________ you in the waiting room.

We first met on a train in 2000. We both felt immediately that we___each other for years.

----I_____ see the doctor at 10:00 a.m . I have made an appointment .-----There is no need. You_____ be all right if you take the medicine.

Chinese government has built new houses to ____ the homeless people in the flooded area.

____ a few things you’d like for Christmas and I will go shopping now.

—Look! Somebody     the sofa.—Well, it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it.

 —Did Alan enjoy seeing his old friends yesterday?—Yes, he did. He        his old friends for a long time.

I called Mary many times yesterday evening, but I couldn’t get through. Her brother _________ on the phone all the time.

—Would you like to go to the cinema with me tomorrow afternoon?—I’d like to, Mum, but I ________ to a party by Jane. It is her birthday. 

All the students in this school are required to ________ at least two lectures on how to study every month.