Pity you missed the wonderful opening ceremony of our sports meeting!—I _______it, but I was absorbed in preparing the mid-term paper for English.[ ]

You are late again. The class ________ for five minutes. —Sorry. There is something wrong with my bike.

More often than not, it is difficult to ______ the exact meaning of a Tang poem in English.

The chairman ________ hold office for five years according to the constitution.

____ another seven-day holiday, for I’m still so tired!