Because of the poor harvest, wheat prices have _____ in the last six months.
I don't know this part of the countryside well, so we’d better ___ the path.
The news soon ___ its way throughout the country.
Now even the middle school students go abroad for study ___.
This dictionary is very useful. It has ___ many problems about works and idioms for me.
It's foolish to go to the ___ of taking music lessons if you never practise.