The number of college graduates in a country _____ its cultural standard nowadays.

I think that ____ very difficult to learn.

Each of the students in our class       great interest in English and they each       a copy of A New English-Chinese Dictionary.

Such poets as Shakespeare _____ widely read, of whose works, however, some _____ difficult to understand.

The Foreign Minister said, “______ our hope that the two sides will work towards peace.”