The number of people invited ______ fifty, but a number of them ______absent for different reasons
He is only too ready to help others, seldom, ____, refusing them when they turn to him.
——The weather is too cold ____ March this year.——It was still ____ when I came here years ago.
Many buildings in the city need repairing, but the one ____ first is the library.
He didn’t make ______ clear when and where the meeting would be held.
It was raining heavily. They could do nothing but ______ at home.