Running a company is not ______ a matter of hiringpeople — they also need to be trained.

You should have informed me that the lecture was canceled. I ________ all the way here through the heavy rain.

A Sichuan government officialexpressed their thanks through CCTV for the aid they ______ in the last threeyears

I like the subject best, ______ he doesn’t.

He was ______ to find that it was almost impossible to undertake the task.