—I wonder if you could go with me to the supermarket.
—Sorry. I _______ my experiment report all the morning and haven’t finished yet.

—Listen, Lily is playing the piano!
—Wow, how sweet the music ______!

Mo Yan has been the first          Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, ___________ arouses people’s interest in reading his works.

To tell the truth, if it were not for the fact that you           my daughter, I would not take such pains to serve you.

-----Is this the first time you           Quanzhou?
-----No. But the first time I           here, the city wasn’t so beautiful.

After months of voyage, Columbus arrived in what later           to be a new continent.

The news came as no surprise to me. I           for some time that the factory was going to shut down.

Bob ________ with us together since he came to our school.

When I came into the teacher’s office, he ________ on the phone.

--- We want to sit at the table near the window.
--- I am sorry, but it _______ already.