20. _________raining hard for 3 hours without stopping.
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12. Mr. White works with an import and export company, but he ______ for this industrial fair, since he is on leave.

9. The flowers were so lovely that they ______ out in no time.

31. He told me how he had given me shelter and protection without which I ______of hunger.

30. After he had recovered from his injury, he caught a squirrel (松鼠) and raised it as a pet. Soon he ______ home snakes and other creatures from the woods near his school.

24. Everything a family needs to plan a party, except the cake and ice cream, ______ to the home in a large basket.

—Why did you leave the lights burning?
—Heavens! I guess I     to turn them off.

29. A man who witnessed the accident said that the car _____ at nearly 100 kilometers per hour at the time.

26. The company _______ a rise in salary for ages but nothing has happened yet.

25. The concert__ to _ some money for those suffering from the earthquake, which __ 2,000 lives.