John and I _____ friends for eight years. We first got to know each other at a Christmas party. But we _____ each other a couple of times before that.
Neighbors said they heard the man tell the woman that she couldn’t leave______ she gave back the money borrowed from him.
The price of gold has jumped to______ new all-time high as debt worries in the US and ______ Europe continue to trouble the world.
Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature, grew up listening to folk tales that __ for centuries in his hometown.
___ great the demand to succeed, one should never abandon his moral and social consciousness.
____the problem, it follows that we must develop a plan of action.