To their great joy, the day they looked forward to__________at last.

Can you __________ me 5 minutes ? I want your advice.

Peter ________ the papers he was marking and reached for his cigarettes and matches.

Jack’s business is not as good as before, so he has to __________ the expenses(開銷) of his company.

When all the pupils and ________,Miss Brown gave out the new reading books to them.
A set off      Bsettled down  C gone ahead    D brought up

. The year 2003 ____ a wild spread of SARS, a disease people knew little about at that time.

The theory wasn’t accepted by many people when it was first ____, but it proved to be true as time went by.

As a student, what ______is not whether you fail or not, but whether you try or not.

Action must be taken to prevent that factory from ______ heavy smoke into the air.

He _______ us that everything would go according to plan, but it turned out a failure.