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        .

---- Why is the cake so expensive?
---- Maybe you don’t know a cake made of wheat costs less than _____ made of rice. 

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

Sarah made ______ to the airport just in time to catch her plane this morning.

Larry asks Bill and Peter to go on a picnic with him, but        of them wants to, because they have work to do.