根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

a far cry from;   give way;   follow in one’s footsteps;   carry on;   beyond one’s expectations;   in a row; expect to;   in all directions;   day in and day out;   end up

【小题1】This flat is ________ the house they had before.
【小题2】Yesterday,   our English class ________ singing an English song devotedly.
【小题3】Honestly speaking, we are not going to ________ to blackmail.
【小题4】What made us upset was that it rained all summer,   ________.
【小题5】Who do you think would ________ the famous businessman’s ________ in future?
【小题6】I could hardly keep up with it, throwing bottles ________.
【小题7】I wish those boys wouldn’t ________ like that;   it’s very annoying.
【小题8】With no goals or dreams, how can we ________ achieve anything significant?
【小题9】It is ________ that they all have left when we arrived.
【小题10】With despair he heard the man call three numbers ________.