—We are informed that the Weifang International Kite Festival starts at 7:00. —Oh, I didn't expect it was so early! I ____ to go out for dinner with my friends first.
Before going ___ the old man took a ___ pole with him.
The girl in red is ___ her father than like her mother.
Yesterday he told me a story ____ in his home town.
Hearing the bad news, ___.
I had thought that he ___ for a least twenty years.