She didn’t want to go to Africa: probably （ ） the weather is too hot.

It was not known （ ） he had said during the interview.

You needn’t introduce him to me. I’ve met him on several _____.

Their watch is （ ） to all the other watches on the market.

Dinner will be ready _____. Let’s go and wash our hands.

I decide to leave the company next month, where I _____ for exactly three years.

The authorities wouldn’t （ ） us permission to fly all the way down to San Francisco.

The grain output of this year is much higher than _____ of last year.

A news report is usually very short, （ ） when it is about something very important.

Ted, （ ） yourself and don’t get your coat dirty again, or you will get into trouble!

（ ） all her friends and money gone, Kate felt totally hopeless.

Helen was much kinder to her youngest child than she was to the others,（ ） , of course, made the others jealous.