---Have the papers been graded?
--- Yes, but I regret        that you failed it.

．After his journey from abroad, Richard Johns returned home, __________.

Eugene's never willing to alter any of his opinions. It’s no use _____ with him.

A．to argue

B．arguing

C．argued

D．having argued

The prize of the game show is ＄30,000 and an all expenses _______ vacation to China．

The ship is said ________, the effect of _______ is still unknown.

The president made a decision to take immediate action _______ the improvement of the poor’s living conditions.

.This isn’t the most difficult one of the new words that ______ me in the passage.

He hurried to the booking office only ______ that all the tickets had been sold out.

I am busy preparing for the mid-term examination, so I can’t help____ housework.

All the people, the wounded_____, were brought to safety.