Throughout the year over two million people are expected to directly ___ Japan 2005,a series of festivals and performances taking place around the country.

I didn’t know what “loquacious” meant and had to ________ in a dictionary.

While large numbers of residents in this area ______ the A/H1N1 flu, very few suffered death.

I am one of the students who _________ English well in my class but he is the only one of us __________ maths well. 

He is only too ready to help others, seldom, ______, refusing them when they turn to him.