26. —How much of the foreign expert’s speech have you understood?—Next to nothing. I wish I _______ harder at English.
Along the way children ______ long wool coats stopped to look at us.
Is this the reason _____ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?
______ in his studies, he didn't know that all the others had left.
We had much difficulty __________ home in the snowstorm.
“Be careful, do not stand ___________ to the fire, Jim.” Mrs. Thompson said to her little son.