Mr Smith, _____of the_________speech, started to read a novel.

According to the artists，the painting _______ to go for at least a million dollars.

Air pollution, together with littering, ____ many problems in our large industrial cities today. 

The ability _______ an idea is as important as the idea itself.

The flood last month in the east was a real disaster, ___ 19 people dead and 78 missing.