27.---Mary, you didn’t show up at the meeting last week? ---No, I________, but my son had a sudden fever and I had to stay at home to take care of him.
Mrs. Hanson, a housewife bent on getting ____higher education, has been going to college, a few courses at ____ time, for 7 years.
. — Would you mind if I asked you where you’re from? —____.
It was reported that the ship sank three miles _____ the French coast.
That day everyone wondered _____ the baby of four went to her mother’s office.
--- This book by Tony Garrison is of great use for our course. --- But I think his latest one is ______ worth reading.