How ________ you say that you really understand the whole story if you have covered only a part of the article

I don’t like the way _____he speaks to others.[ ]

___ a pen, a few pencils and somepaper for you

, I didn’t hear the door bell ring.—Your bell .Perhaps it needs repairing.

The number of people invited _____ fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons. [ ]