—— Excuse me, I'm afraid____ . Could you tell me where I am?—— You're on the 77th street. Where would you like to go?
I have never laid（ ）to being an expert in this field.
Lying here in the sun is a very pleasant way to（ ）the afternoon.
The students have（ ）more interesting English classes as they like without any restrictions in any specified field.
People were surprised to find that he had the ability to（ ）everything he was involved in.
Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea,（1）into a hobby and lately has（2）into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, PhD candidates（3）Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep（4）of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they（5）that their home brewed lists were becoming too long and（6）. Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.During 1994, they（7）yahoo into a customized database designed to（8）the needs of the thousands of users（9）began to use the service through the closely（10）Internet community. They developed customized software to help them（11）locate identify and edit material（12）on the Internet. The name Yahoo is（13）to stand for “Yet another Hierarchical Officious Orale”, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the（14）because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first（15）on Yang’s workstation, “akebono”, while the search engine was（16）on Filo’s computer “Konishiki.”In early 1995 Marc Andersen, co-founder of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files（17）to larger computers（18）at Netscape. As a result Stanford’s computer network returned to（19）, and both parties benefited. Today, Yahoo （20）organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.