Intelligence does not_______ mean success. You need diligence as well.

She paused _____ over the unfamiliar word but soon continued.

I _____ watch foreign movies in my spare time ，but I appreciate Chinese ones occasionally at home.

Mrs Brown always takes things _________ too seriously, which makes the people around her uneasy.

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