ices of houses, ____________ is oftenreported, have been going up sharply in the past few months.

I’ll do whatever I can ________ my English.

going for a picnic next Sunday, and I’dlike you to join us.—____________！I have to seemy grandmother. She has been ill for two weeks.

It’s the love and responsibility that havedriven him to ___ many hardships and survive.

Would you like to see a film with us this evening?—I’d like to. But I can’t ________ the time because I have to finish my composition.[ ]