This year the company has produced as many cars as the year before last, but the total profits are four-fifths ______ they were then.

---Where is the nearest hospital? --- Not very far. It is _________.

How do you think _________that he was an hour late on such a short journey?

— Have you taken the picture of me with the elephant?— Hang in there! I'll take ________ two of you.

He prefers _____books at home rather than ______TV.

—I’ve got a new English teacher, Lucy Mere.—Lucy Mere? She happens       me before. She is patient.

—What about the student in your class, Mr. Wang?—The doctor said that          sleep caused him poor memory and poor concentration.

To avoid           on how to use the word, you’d better refer to a dictionary.

While the soldier’s idea was interesting, the system was too difficult to be ____.

Despite the rising costs of many products, bus fares in the city of Zhuzhou ______ unchanged.

What he has done is far from ______.

Americans eat____ vegetables per person today as they did in 1990.

In the past ten years, the ________mountain climber _________ a lot from his own adventurous _______

— What is the model plane like?— Well, the wings of the plane are_______ its body.

Now that he 　　　　 that he had stolen the money, you should forgive him.

Li Ping has decided to go abroad for further education with the ________ of improving his English and finding a better job when he returns.

Up to now, large quantities of food         to Africa to save the starving people.

The stronger the _____is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.

Just as the food a person eats and the friends with whom he spends his time, his house ______ his personality.

High-speed trains travel at 300 kilometers an hour，which is about      normal trains．