7.---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.
Every means __________ been tried and all __________ well now.
Rod loves __________ clocks. However, he never manages to put them together again.
Can you tell the __________ difference between the words "require" and "request"? I sometimes get puzzled by their meanings.
Soldiers who fought all the way to the faraway places couldn't come back, and they had to__________ a life on the foreign lands.
Why not try our luck downtown, Bob? That's __________ the best jobs are.