The number of the students in senior high school, ____ is mentioned above, is increasing.
Instead of answering, she ______ smiled.
The patient suffering from cancer looked dead but the faint pulse proved that he was still________.
The continuous rain ______ the harvesting of the wheat crop by two weeks.
In 1989, a(n) _______law was passed by the United Nations to stop people putting waste into sea.
Whenever a big company ______ a small one, the product almost always gets worse.