—— Tom, did Mr.Li join you in your dicussion? —— No, he____, but he happened to have fallen ill.
No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.
We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.
The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.
He ate what he could, and gave the _____ of the food to the birds.
Mary had taken _____ to see that her guests had everything that they could possibly want.