I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat（）

Inquiries（）the condition of the patients may be made personally or by telephone.

（）students often find it difficult to live in China at first.

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

An explosion is a sudden increase in amount（）

After she became a lawyer, she decided to （）criminal law.

She is very nice, but because she has a（）way of speaking, she is slow in making friends

He never（）to read the news but turned at once to the crossword puzzle on the last page.

He will behave(crazy)（）if he drinks too much.

Nobody knows how long and how seriously the shakiness（不穩(wěn)定） of big businesses will （） down the economy.