We'd better grow the plant in a ________ plastic box so that the children can see the roots growing.

—Oh, I've just locked my keys in my office again.—You're always so careless, but ________ let's see what we can do about it.

—Language learning is much ________ for children.—Yeah, I quite agree. Their minds are more flexible.

 Compared with male graduates, a ________ small number of female graduates can get employed when they go job­hunting.

 Reading the job ad, he wondered whether he was ________ to apply for it.

Although money is important, money ________ won't make a happy life.

I must have slept in an ________ position. I'm aching all over!

 Alex has been in China for quite a few years. ________， he speaks fluent Chinese.

With more and more farmers moving to cities, an inadequate labor force is ________ becoming a major factor affecting the country's grain output.

The Jiangsu TV station is very popular with many people in China, as it deals with ________ subjects such as music, entertainment and fashion.

．The recent study has shown that people's attitudes towards protecting the environment are not ________ with their behavior in daily life.

 Statistics indicate that women are ________ shoppers in Europe, contributing to four­fifths of annual online shopping sales.

Just a month before the earthquake the school practiced an emergency drill showing the children how to ________ find their “safe place”．

 You needn't have apologized for your absence—________， it's hardly your fault.

 Once you are ________ to smoking, it is difficult to give it up.

 Mike did the homework ________ it took me.

 Worried about the time ________， Mary had made a list of the sites she wanted to see in Beijing.

 In order to keep fit, people eat ________ vegetables per person today as they did two years ago.

 Computers and mobile phones, though they are indeed making our life ________ and more ________， have reduced the need for face­to­face communications.

—What about the result of your final examination?—Not so bad. Not so good as my parents expected, ________.