After school we went to the reading-room to do some reading, only to be told that it ____________.

—Who do you think will get the first prize?
—Mary, of course. She ________ for the competition for months.

The hotel which _______ now is to be a five-star one

---We all had a lot of fun at the barbecue yesterday. Pity you weren’t there.
---I really should have gone with you, but I ________ on some remaining problems.

---Can we sit at the table near the window?
---I’m sorry, but it______ already.

Brain who serves as manager of the company hopes that everything will be better when he quits than when he_______.

I want to buy that kind of cloth because I _____ the cloth _____ well.

Dr. Smith, together with his wife and daughters,     visit Beijing this summer.

Since the recent river pollution in Shanxi Province , people ____ more and more attention to the water quality.

The church tower which      will be open to tourists soon. The work is almost finished.