Your handwriting is really too bad to read;I can hardly _____ what exactly you are trying to say

________ seven or eight countries would come together to determinethe direction of global markets

．Ram explained to his mother ________ he would get home late that night because of extra work

27.—Where have you been? —I got caught in traffic, otherwise I _______ here earlier.

What a heavyrain!—So it is. I prefer________ rather than onsuch a rainy day.