He treated me as though/as if _____ his own son.
Comrade Li Dazhao, _____ librarian of Beijing University, was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
The speaker _____ several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic.
No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.
We won't know whether it will be successful. We won't know whether there will be good _____.
The government placed _____ on the numbers of foreign cars that could be imported.