When are the Shutes leaving for New York？—Pardon？ —I asked ___________. 　

__________ will the meeting last? –Less than an hour.

David, your mother’s birthday is _____. Let’s think about how to celebrate it.—OK, Dad.

Would you like _____bread?— No, I don’t want to eat _____.

Modern science and technology has ___ communication between people far apart.