He is busy preparing a secret present for his Mum, ______ is cheap but special.

---Is your school life like ______ of other teens?
---In many ways, yes.

. I agree with most of what you said, but I don’t agree with            .

_____ took me almost 20 years to have the courage to ask my father this personal question.

I prefer a college in Beijing to       in Shanghai, because I like the climate in Beijing.

Mrs. Scott prefers a street in a small town to _________ in such a large city as Shanghai.

His plan, as well as Mary’s, sounds original. But the company, I think, won’t agree to __________ of them, for they are unrealistic.

I was disappointed with the film. I had expected _______ to be much better.

---Susan, go and join your sister cleaning the yard.
--- Why ___? John is sitting there doing nothing. 

   our textbook ,the English spoken in England in the past is very different from ____ spoken at present.