It was ____ that he had to ask for help．

27．—Mary, you didn’t show up at the meeting last week? —No, I________, but my son had a sudden fever and I had to stay at home to take care of him

The falling of the new building ______ its soft base.[ ]

He said ______ at the meeting and just satthere silently

nusual success shows that if someonecan do their job really well, then the question ________ male or female is notso important