–The Wall Street Journal is giving me a laptop with Windows XP, an operating system I found satisfying when it first _____ eight years ago.–Are you sure? You must be talking big.

 The three of us ________ around Europe for about a month last summer.(2012·天津)

My uncle ______ until he was forty –five. 

 Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.

When I ______to take part in the sport, I felt very surprised because I had never done this before.