----How do you like our city? ----It has changed beyond all _____ in the past 20 years, a completely new one in front of me.

 Nowadays, there is a ____ that receiving education is a waste of time. 

 --- I’ll buy you a ten-speed bicycle as a birthday present.  --- Is that a _________?  I wish you would not disappoint me.

The government is aiming to reduce the unemployment, but it’s quite _______ to have a job at all these days. 

 Although we hadn’t met for twenty years, I recognized him ____ I saw him.