Unlike watching TV, reading is a highly active process (过程) _______ it requires attention as well as memory and imagination.
I’d rather have a room of my own, however small it is, than _______ a room with someone else.
—— Would you mind my having a talk with you?——- ______________. You are welcome
E-mail, as well as telephones, ________ an important part in daily communication.
Mark woke up one morning only to find both water and electricity _______ because he had not been able to pay the bills.
Not until the train pulled into the station ______ that his suitcase was gone.