A person, when he or she is young, can’t read __________many books. 

-- ______________, I can make it home by 8:30 when the football game will be on TV. -- Well, it depends on how efficiently you work.

My computer is ________ in need of repair because it does not work at all.

John ____________ his students is playing basketball on the playground.

Compared with male graduates, a（n） ____ small number of female graduates can get employed when they go job-hunting．