Luckily, the man      escape death when a fire broke out in his home on Sunday morning.

Scientists said that the winter of 2011 was _____ cold, and in fact it was much colder than predicted.

The weather was bad and the food was terrible , ___the holiday was very disappointing .

— Oh, really? Can Doris read through it in such a short time?— She covered the English novel ______ it took me, still less a simple story．

 He was known to have been hanging about and was not expected to pass the test. ______, his failure came as no wonder to his parents.