The failure to find a satisfactory job after graduation pushed him to____writing as a career.
How can they learn anything ______ they spend all their spare time watching television?
The rain had cleared the air, and the grass ______ fresh and sweet.
Be careful to move the equipment --- ______ it gently.
As the Spring Festival is drawing ______, people are getting busier and busier.
That fellow hung around for hours and, ______ was worse, kept me from doing my work.