They suffered a flood last year, but the harvest was not ,____ they got the year before．

. How cold it is! We’ve never had ______ this winter.

There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is _________ wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.”

Here I can only give you some purely ___ views of how we can control the situation.

The speaker is giving a rather _______ speech, as I can judge from the _______ look on the listeners.