____ catch the first bus, she got up earlier that morning.

___ the silence of the pauses, we could hear each other’s breathing and could almost hear our own heartbeats.

When she first arrived in China, she wondered what the future might have_______ for her, but now all her worries are gone.

----What’s your first impression ________ Mrs Wang? ----She looks serious. I think she’ll be strict _____ us _______her own work. 

My friend Martin was very sick with a strange fever; ________, he could neither eat nor sleep.