Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.

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

I just managed to（）a quick breath before I was pulled under the water by the passing boats.

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

Many students found the book （）;it provided them with a large amount of information on the subject.

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

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

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

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