— Tom, will you attend the press meeting to be held this morning? — But I ______ anything about it.

The sights of Nanchang never fail to _______ foreign tourists, making them abandon themselves to the beauty of the city.

 I ____ Mr. White at that time, otherwise I wouldn’t have asked you for some information about him. 

This year the price of rice _____ about twenty percent. 

—Why were you so late this morning? —I _____ in heavy traffic for an hour on the way here.