--Do you need any help, Lucy?--Yes. The job is ________ I could do myself.

--Shall I ________ the raincoat?--No hurry. Leave it ________ it is. It looks like rain.

--Did the film ________ your expectations?--Yes, I have never seen such an interesting film like that before.

As parents and teachers, you should allow children the space to ________ their opinions, even if they are different from your own.

In fact, I think it’s very much nicer without the naughty boy, if you don’t mind me ________ so.

Much as he ________ he has a good command of English, he sometimes feels it hard to find an appropriate version for some Chinese idioms.

More and more attention has been drawn to the fact that many children are ________ in the countryside when their parents flood into the cities for jobs.

There was no_________ about it that they had got the news.

He told me he had been offered a very well-paid_________ abroad.

compare  

raise   

theirs  

society  

Children who are over-protected by their parents may become ________.

Everybody in the village likes Jack because he is good at telling and________ jokes.

Mary is lovely, kind and full of energy. ________, I can’t speak too highly of her.

You can’t predict everything. Often things don’t __________ as you expect. 

Seeing is believing, for some so-called news items are just _____ in the newspaper office.

Her book Versed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, which helped establish her _____ in literature.

Construction workers usually get ______ by the day.