rl had hardly rung the bell the door was opened suddenly, and her friend rushed out to greet her.

All of us had a good time in the picnic last Sunday.Pity you weren’t there.—I really ________ come but I was looking after my mother in hospital.[ ]

A house was ______ between midnight and 5 a.m.. A lot of valuable things were stolen.

It’s sometimes too difficult to understand the voices of American film.

In 1998, Liu Xiang’s ______ in hurdling was noticed by Sun Jiangping.