At this time next week ______________ the English Channel.

--- “Fail to do your homework again?”---“Sorry, I ____ something else and didn’t hear your assignment.”

Had it been possible, I would have gone to attend Monica in the hospital, but I________ fully occupied last month.

The Diaoyu Islands _____ in Chinese maps since the 14th and 15th centuries.

In the past few months, the country _____ a further tightening of supply restrictions, making fuel and food supplies more difficult to obtain.

I ____ to visit you later that day, but I had to phone and cancel.

I would have gone to my cousin’s birthday party last night, but I ______ available.

My parents_________ in Hong Kong. They were born there and have lived nowhere else.

—Tommy is planning to buy a car.— I know. By next month, he ____ enough for a used one.

Joseph _____ to evening classes since last month, but he still can’t say “What’s your name?” in Russian.

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

The manager is said to have arrived back from Paris where he ____ some European business partners.

As each man I contacted recounted painful details, I felt as though I were talking with my father. Not only were they similar in appearance, but _____ the same things.

----Another cup of tea? That’s your third since lunch.    ----Yeah, well, I ____ all night preparing for my history exam. I can hardly keep my eyes open.

Please fill in your name and address here.  We’ll call you when the book _________.

Shakespeare’s play Hamlet ______ into at least ten different films over the past years.

—Do you know if he has recovered from the illness?—Recovered? I am afraid that he ________ now in the hospital.

---- John ,why are you so upset?----I _________ my cellphone all morning but it is nowhere to be found.

“I’m more nervous right now than when I _______,”Jane said ,as she saw a group of reporters waiting anxiously at the exit of the gymnasium.

Keep it in mind not to disturb the president at two o’clock this afternoon, when he ____ a global joint meeting.