Mo Yan, this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Literature, believes reading is ______ first stirred his imagination and gave him a way with words.

---Tell me something about your adventure in the rainforest, please.---We lost our way in the forest and ___ made matters worse was ___ night began to fall.

（2014年福州市高三适应性练习）33.— Your sneeze tells me you may have a flu.— No. It’s just __________ I can’t stand the smell of the paint here.

As we know, big cities are good opportunities lie.

  He didn't go by bike with me.That's ________ there was something wrong with his bike.