Since advertising can increase sales of production, _____it can _____the price.

.It would ______us a ____ time, but fortunately, we didn’t.

–What ______you here, my old friend?
--- It’s you.

.I _______ him to stop smoking, but failed.

– Why does everyone like him?
---Because he always ______ a good after-dinner joke.

My mother always _______ the importance of mixing well with my classmates in school.

Though what she had been doing went against the tradition of the family, she ________to make them change their minds.
A. succeeded    B. persuaded   B. managed   D. tried

Quarrels often _______ between the wife and husband but they both wish to take measures to prevent them ______ happily.

-- Mum, I failed again in today’s examination.
--Oh, ________. The world is not _______.

.He might have_____ his idea about the art at the exhibition much better if he had planned what he wanted to say.