— Why didn’t you come to Mike’s birthday party yesterday? — Well, I _______, but I had something important to do at the moment.
Though ____ the dangers of smoking to their health, smokers still find it hard to give up smoking.
---Do you work in this office? ---No, as a clerk in this office is on vacation, I’m just ____ here for about a week.
They _______ drinking although they are drivers, which is very dangerous both to them and the passengers.
She had a computer at home, and her parents desired that she _____all her work at home.
In our city, almost everyone is _______bringing down the housing price because it is too high for them to buy one.