The patient’s progress was encouraging as he could ______ get out of bed without help.

I felt ______ tired, but he didn’t stop ______.

It may rain, but I shall go out _____.

She is _____ out on Sundays.

The students are ___ young people between the age of sixteen and twenty.

—_____of Hangzhou has your brother covered since he came here?—About half of it, I guess

His speech was extremely boring that it was _____ interrupted by applause and cheers.

＿to my regret, I am unable to accept your warm invitation. 

Although he sometimes loses his temper, his students like him＿__＿for it.

The meeting was long and the speakers said ______nothing worth listening to.

It's ___ so easy as you imagine.

The rapidly growing birth rate brings about a lot of environment problems, which the government is supposed to take _____.

John seems a nice person. ____, I don't trust him.

 He began to take political science_____ only when he left school. 

A short, thin man, __ past middle age, visited the manager and applied for the job.

Yesterday evening when going to the cinema I frequented, I went in a wrong direction ___.

-Your plan is well designed. --Thank you. But I think it is far from ____.

During the summer vocation we went back to the school __ to pay a visit to our teachers though it was _____ hot.

She is quite a different girl _____ she was five years ago.

Sometimes it was a bit boring to work there because there wasn't always ______ much to do.