Soldiers stood next to a police truck, looking at the crime scene _______ a woman was gunned down in a poor neighborhood of the border city of Iran October 18, 2009.

Kate didn’t go to school yesterday, did she—_______, though (虽然) she didn’t feel very well.

His sistersince she left home in 1998

35It has been reported that the country’s health-care reform is still _____ debate

My uncle is a writer. He ______ many books since he was young.