The audience waited in________silence while their aged speaker searched among his notes for the figures he could not remember.

He ___ at the enemy, without saying a word.

It is reported that many a new house________at present in the disaster area.

Who are playing football in the gym now________ the students from No 1 Middle School

I was trying to carry out the plan, but I failed.—Well, you _____, for we were uncertain it would do ____.