—Are you going to Dalian by air?—No, the tickets are ____expensive for me. 

The boys are doing no harm; they are ___ playing．

The waiting lists for a bed in a public elderly care home in Beijing have grown ________ long that some are saying it could take 100 years to get a position.

Netizens called the fashionable homeless man the “beggar prince”, or, ____________, “Brother Sharp”.

— Your shoes don’t match your dress exactly.— Well, Bill told me not to buy them, but I bought them____.