In the USA, _______ Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is _______ time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general.
In the big earthquake all their houses were ______, so they had to build new ones.
Don’t waste your words any more; she is as ______ as a mule (骡子) and no one can persuade her.
She insisted that she ______ not guilty, but we insisted that she ______ into prison.
She would never ______ to the unreasonable requirements of her manager.
The number of people invited ______ fifty, but a number of them ______ absent for different reasons.