The number of people invited to the party ____ fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons.
It is not _____ that Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving milk powder, according to China Daily.
All present were shocked by what the little girl_______ when she was cheated and sold to the mountain village.
Richard was called in by the police to answer questions _______ the disappearance of Thomas Ripley, whose relatives were so ______ his present situation.
It took ______ building supplies to construct these energy-saving houses. It took brains, too.
The woods and the newly dug river through the campus ______ the beauty of this world-known university.