The country finally gained independence after being ________ by the British for so many years.

Students' attitude towards this matter _____ greatly because of their different backgrounds.

I can hardly ______ on the wage I'm getting; there is no money for luxuries.

Mr.Smith had his wallet           at the entrance to the theatre last Sunday.

A completely new situation will  ____  when the examination system comes into existence. 

We are much _____ with the standard of the children' s work on the exhibition.

You can't imagine how terrible it was when the volcano _____  !

Does the amount of rain _____ the growth of the crops?

Many difficulties have _____ as a result of the change over a new type of fuel.  

短文改:
假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共
有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。
增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。
刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。
修改：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。
注意：
      1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞；
      2. 只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計分。

       My husband, Mike and I were at a restaurant with his boss. When Mike began a story I was
sure he had told it before, I gave him a kick under the table. There was no response, so I gave him
other one. Still the story went on. All of sudden he stopped, smiled and saying, “Oh, but I’ve
told you this one before, haven’t I?” We all laughed and changed the topic. Later, above the dance
floor, I asked my husband why it has taken him so long to get my messages. “What do you mean?”
he replied. “I stopped the story as soon as you kicked me.” “However I kicked you twice, and it
still took you a while to stop!” Suddenly we realized what had been happened. When we returned to
my table, the boss smiled and said to me, “After the second one, I guessed it was not for me, so I
passed it along and kicked Mike.”
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