Will you be ____ this afternoon , John?—-It depends. I’ m afraid I’ll be called in by my boss.

When the manager ______ her, the girl didn’t even look up.

Experts and teachers all think that failure is not _____ a bad thing to some extent.

n, _______ I had been writingfor ten years, was broken.

People from the West like to use such expressions as “please” and “thank you” in cases ______ some people in Asia may not think it necessary