24. I wanted to go home but my wife ( ) on going to the concert.

13. The guests were ( ) in the front rows ( ) to the president attentively.

12. The musician, ( ) for his splendid speech, was warmly received by the students.

11. I wrote a letter to my parents, ( ) them that I would spend the New Year＇s Day with them.

10. The cinema, ( ) last month, is very popular, especially among the young people in the town.

9. I am ( ) to hear that a man of your age and with such good sense should talk in this way.

8. He spoke clearly in order to ( ).

7. The doctor soon made the ( ) patient feel at ease.

6. ( ) the street, he was knocked down by a car.

5. ( ) the room, the teacher laid the instrument on the device.

4. The telephone was invented in 1876 by a man ( ) Alexander Graham Bell.