1. the new road will ______ the city ______ the countryside. 2. after waiting for half an hour, i _____________________ that he wouldn’t come at all. 3. the theory ______________ by einstein was later to prove true, but at that time few people could accept it. 4. the parents are always __________________ their children. 5. hard work ________________ success and failure often lies in laziness. 6. no matter how i tried to read it, the sentence didn’t _______________.