_____ finished his work, he had to stay at home on the weekend.

I love thinking of new designs. It keeps my mind clear and active and fills my retired life with （ ）.

You’ve never told me why you didn’t come to my birthday party， _____?

As a Chinese proverb goes， a heavy snow _____ a good harvest year.

Why can’t you do this small （ ） for me? I’ve helped you often enough in the past.

The little boy saw the plane_____and burst into flames.

It is reported that a plane has ______ in the mountainous area near the borderline of that country.

Feed plants and they grow; （ ） them and they suffer.

Humble （ ） it may be, there is no place like home.

You _____ all those calculations! We have a computer to do this sort of things.

He studies so hard to avoid （ ） at the bottom of the class.

This is the very house （ ） my grandpa lived before his death in 1980.