The number of people invited to the wedding yesterday ______ two hundred, but a smallnumber of them ________ absent .

I cannot______ puzzled, for I simply cannot understand how I could have made such a stupid mistake

These days the government has issued several economic policies that will________prosperity of manufacturing industry.[ ]

It is still under discussion_____ the old bus station should be replaced with a modern hotel or not

The sports meeting, originally ______ be held last Friday, was finally delayed because of the bad weather.