9. –You should have apologized to them for not ______ at the party. --I ________ but they didn’t forgive me anyway.
The great writer and professor____.
The League secretary and the monitor____ asked to attend the .meeting this afternoon.
Alice, together with two boys,____ for having broken the rule.
Every means ____ tried but without any result.
The population of China ____ larger than that of .any other country in the world.