The exciting news that Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature renewed people’s enthusiasm towards literature, which is a great ________ to the development of Chinese literature.
It was raining heavily. Little Mary felt cold, so she stood ______ to her mother.
______ loud music in public is against the law in the UK.
They succeeded in killing pests which came from the foreign countries ______ a lot of hard work.
When you meet a new word in reading the English papers, you can guess its meaning but needn’t always ______ the dictionary.
The managers discussed the plan that they would like to see ______ the next year.