1 . Many a large and big business________(have) been built up from small ones. (所给词的适当形式填空)

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1. Picking up her "Life time Achievement"award, proud Irene ____(declare) she had no plans to retire from her 36-year-old business.
2. Our hosts shared many of their experiences and ______(recommend) wonderful places to eat, shop, and visit. For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya (木瓜) and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.
3. On the last day of our week-long stay, we ________(invite) to attend a private concert on a beautiful farm on the North Shore under the stars.
4. Fast food ________ (be) full of fat and salt; by eating more fast food people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.
5. Sarah says, ＂My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school ______(come) first. I don’t want to get too absorbed in modeling".
6. Later, engineers ________(manage) to construct railways in a system of deep tunnels (隧道）, which became known to the tube.
7. Around 100 people _________（put down） a $10,000 deposit to get a Transition when they go on sale, and those numbers will likely rise after Terrafugia introduces the Transition to the public later this week at the New York Auto Show.
8. It _________(white-paint) tunnels and bright red carriages, and proved extremely popular with the public.
9. The Intelligent Transport team at Newcastle University _________(turn) an electric car into a mobile laboratory named ＂DriveLAB＂ in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.
10. Steam engines ______(use) to pull the carriages and it must have been fairly unpleasant for the passengers, with all the smoke and noise.
11. Sarah   ______ (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel earning a million dollars in the next year.

3 . Sarah   ______ (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel earning a million dollars in the next year.