Only in this way ______ progress in your English .

To our great disappointment, a lot of jobs ______ if the factory closes

So much ______ by the poem for the Wenchuan earthquake that he decided to participate in the re-construction of the damaged region.

The number of people invited to the party 200 but a number of them ___absent for different reasons.

catch the first bus, he got up very early this morning.