If you something such as a story or excuse, you invent it, sometimes in order to cheat people.

25. —Your mother becomes more and more forgetful. — Yes. She searched for her cell phone for a whole day last Sunday but it ______ in her coatpocket the next day.

The first textbooks ______ for teaching English as a foreign language came out in the 16th century.

Computers of this kind __________. They are out of stock (脱销) now.

According to the arrangement，the athletes of our school________at the gym for two hours every day.