The house I grew up ________ has been taken down and replaced by an office building.
This article ______ more attention to the problem of cultural interference in foreign language teaching and learning.
None of us expected the chairman to ______at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.
The doctor had almost lost hope at one point, but the patient finally _______.
Whenever a big company _______ a small one, the product almost always gets worse.
As the applause _____, the curtain on the stage dropped slowly.