（安徽安庆2009教学质量监测） It is estimated by some experts that by the end of next year we            a fall in house prices by 25%.

My parents_________ in Hong Kong. They were born there and have lived nowhere else.

I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers ________ before my eyes.

—Will you attend the meeting this evening?—But I ________ told anything about it.

 Mr. Johnson insisted that he _____ his debts, but nobody believed him.