The Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is celebrated in        Asian countries．

_______not to be late for the meeting, we arrived forty minutes _______ the required time, but after _____seemed hours of waiting, we were informed the meeting had been canceled. 

Now more people prefer a house in a coast city to ____ in such a large city as Beijing.

My mother insisted that my father should buy a piano for me, and finally he managed to finance   ______.

 We arrived at the station too early and had         to go, so we sat there and chatted with each other.