27. Since 1994, the glacier in Antarctica has lowered by as much as 90cm, ______________sea level to rise.
The telephone _______, but by the time I got indoors, it stopped.
Unluckily, we missed the train. weearly.
—It’s cloudy outside. Please take an umbrella. —
Ten years ago the population of our village was that of theirs.
It was the training ________ he had as a young man ________ made him so excellent.