While in New York, Sara had a strong liking for buying luxuries. Besides , she could afford them. ( ) 2. Our friendship finally broke up mainly because of my fault: I failed to keep in touch with him. ( ) 3. She had no liking for aimlessness, and besides thought it vulgar (粗鄙的). ( ) 4. We have to notice the presence of other cultures when they come into contact with our own. ( ) 5. The king tried to overcome the difficulty, immediately holding a meeting on how to bring about recovery of the economy. ( ) 6. Even though I wanted to keep our friendship, we could not help but be apart for some reason. ( ) 7. Mary paid no attention to my repeated warnings and lost all her money in the stock market. ( ) 8. Because he spoke Spanish, he got around the country very well by himself . ( ) 9. Press reports say that firearms (枪械) killed or harmed 10,000 American children last year. ( )