I could not persuade him to accept it,（）make him see the importance of it.

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

Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

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

I want you to succeed without（）and firmly believe that you will succeed if you try hard enough.

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

The student's first attempt at writing a play was a far（）from the work of Shakespeare.

The price they offered for my old car was so low that I（）it down.

In China,it is quite (nature)（） for people to go back home for the Spring Festival.

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