17. With the help of our class, Little Mike made such great progress in Chinese that he can write a 200-character ____ .
The natives could live for thousand years in the desert land _______ a foreigner could starve.
She sat there without her shoes on, ________.
______ the windows ______ the pictures of different styles.
________ several years he has been working like this.
– Are you married? --No, still______.