Some foreign media predict that all these reforms will make China a strong and powerful country,  ______ that can surprise the whole world. 

Sarah decides to move to Hainan because she thinks that the air there is much fresher than ___ here.

Generally speaking, clothes made of man-made materials is less comfortable than _____ made of natural fibers like cotton, wool or silk.

You look very beautiful in this dress and there is only one of this kind left here. I wonder    if you would like to buy ______. 

In my opinion, life in the twenty-first century is much easier than ____.

I invited five people to my party. Out of five people, only Tom and Jack can come. ______ people can’ t come.

The information on the Internet gets around much more rapidly than ______ in the newspaper.

One of the sides of the wood board should be painted yellow, and ________.

Mr. Xue enjoyed ________ by working in Yangzhou-Taizhou Airport because he always hates ________ while staying alone at home all day long.

When we think of trees at Christmas, there is ________ that immediately springs to mind－the evergreen tree beautifully decorated.

 When ___ comes to saving energy , big changes start with small steps , like turning off the lights.          

Usually what weighs us down are not the burdens of life, but how we handle _______ .

Go and make someone laugh —______just might help them live longer.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott prefer a trip in a small town to         in so large a city as New York．

The aged are close companions, and many of       have known each other for decades. 

The two economic reports were delivered by our president at the board last Monday and ______was very instructive

Lin Shuhao has followed a markedly different path to ____ of the giant Yao Ming, who was the overall first draft pick in 2002.

I think this trip was well worth _____we had paid.

I don’t like to travel to big cities, because to me, one city is much like        .

Didn’t _________ ever occur to you that such possibilities still existed?