27. -----Alice is the most hardworking girl in her class, isn’t she ? -------Absolutely! She _______ hardworking.
Beethoven was not birth deaf. He began to go deaf, _____ he grew older.
Martin was sick with a strange fever; _______, he could neither eat nor sleep.
I was in the _____ position with having completely forgotten her name.
— A man was killed. — Where is the body of the _____ man?
He tried to avoid _____ anything that would hurt her further.