The underlined part of the word “message”sounds ________.

After her husband passed away,Mrs Lee was so poor that she was forced to have her baby .

China’s sport stars Yao Ming and Liu Xiang_____ Goodwill Ambassadors（亲善大使） for Shanghai.

Why not join a football club–I’d love to, but I am afraid it will ______ too much of my time.

as a strict but good captain, __________ usually took care of the sailors on his ship.