He said that his friend ______ there three days before, but she was not there_______.
---Alice, why aren’t you at work today? ---I ________a day off.
Many of them turned a deaf ear to his advice, _______ they knew it to be valuable.
It is in this very village ____ she will build her first school, _____ inspires everyone to help her.
They thought about it for a long time, but still could not ______ a solution.
It is reported that many a new house ________ at present in the disaster.