--- Do you know what Tom does all day ?---- I know he spends at least as much time watching TV as he ____________his lessons.

The couple had quarreled all time before they 　　　     their engagement

The film Gone with the Wind was shot in Atlanta, the US because the novel was _____ the American Civil War.

Just as Professor Scotti often         it, success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. 

One day I _______ a newspaper article about the retirement of an English professor at a nearby state college.