— Why weren't you at the meeting? — I ________ for a long distance call from my sister in America.
I guess Tom won’t keep on asking me the time from now on as he has had his watch .
—The speech bored(使……厌烦)me to death. — . I wish I hadn’t gone to it.
If we don’t prevent some students from surfing the Internet late at night, they won’t do their homework on time, ________.
In the supermarket foreign names of the products got _______, and I was confused about what to buy.
According to the timetable, the train was to arrive at 3 p.m., yet it was nearly an hour late.