The price of the house is too ______. I am afraid Ican’t afford it.

—I could have arrived much earlier, but I ____ in the traffic.—What a pity![ ]

She didn’t recognize the man who hit herbecause she could only ______a dark shape moving towards her

_________reached the classroom when the teachercame.

One third of the country_____ covered with trees and the majority of the citizens______ black people.