260. The word spread that the president came down with lung cancer. Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined word?
He works as an engineer now, but he _______ on a farm for three years.
Joe _______ a lot of Italian by playing with the local children.
_______ about their table manners, the guests decided to do everything that the president did.
—You shouldn’t have gone there alone last night. —But I __________ , because Xiao Wang went there, too.
—I’d like to play football with you, but I have an important thing to attend to. —If you don’t go, __________.