(2013·福建三明二模)—Look at the full moon. How beautiful it is!—How I wish I ________ on it some day!

下列各句中划线的词语意思与现代汉语基本相同的一项是（ ）

The theory wasn’t accepted by many people when it was first ____, but it proved to be true as time went by.

So you missed the lecture given by ProfessorSmith—- ____I got there 30 minutes before it finished

officials soon realized that, _________,things would get worse.