There       some milk and two pieces of bread on the table．

The number of people invited to the wedding yesterday ______ two hundred, but a smallnumber of  them ________ absent .

His grandparents ________ at home on weekends.

The government’s efforts to cut the homework burden of primary and middle school students _____ mixed reactions(反应).

We collected a lot of books to get the necessary information but only half _________helpful, so we failed to finish the work.