A woman in her 60s gave birth to two test tube babies three years ago, after her only daughter died of gas poisoning.
Most senior high school students are working hard day and night to pass the college entrance examination, gaining ______ to a university.
On his way to the airport, it ________ him all of a sudden that he had forgotten her birthday.
—I really thought I’d be offered the chance. —Oh, well,,Vicky____.
We had wanted to finish our task by noon, but it didn’t quite ________ as planned.
The number of people invited _____ fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons.