--- Did Mary attend the meeting on time yesterday?
--- No,she ______late as usual ,which made the boss very angry.

As is known to all,the local economy will____the newly built highway.

When the woman heard the news that her daughter was killed in the mud-rock flow in Yilan, Taiwan, she ______ crying.

There isn’t a lot of food in our home. How long do you think it will _______?

What impressed me most was the quotation(引言) from Shakespeare with which he ­­_______  
his inspiring speech.

—We didn’t find Smith attending the lecture.
—No one _______ him about _______ a lecture the following day.

My wife sometimes _____ something she has long been looking for. That’s why she enjoys window shopping.

I suppose we’ll have to,        bad weather conditions, spend more than 500 days undertaking the construction.

John was ________to learn the news      he was rejected by the committee.

He can hardly         his wife’s bad-temper， so he decided to seek divorce with her.