Neither my wife nor I myself______ able to persuade my daughter to change her______.

All the names of the guests are ______ in the list. I don’t forget any of them.

Struck by the terrible earthquake, Wenchuan was       from the outside.

You may use the room as you like,______ you clean it up afterwards. 

I had not listened to my mother’s advice on taking an umbrella. Later that afternoon, I was nearly ________ the rain.