Jack climbed ______ to the top of the mountain though he is only a boy of ten.
Each of the students, hoping to pass the exam, _____the book.
----Each of the students, working hard at his or her lessons,___to go to university. -----So do I.
He told me the news_____, believe it or not, he had earned $1 000 in a single day.
He has read the book as many as, if _____ than, five times.
This church is as old as, if _____ than, that one.