Thanks to the Party’s opening and reform policy, people in China are ______ than they were thirty years ago.
----I missed the first part of the film. It was really a pity. ----You _____home half an hour earlier.
It was at the very beginning____ Mr. Smith made a decision ___we should send for a doctor.
A brilliant idea occurred to him, ___ to his research in the lab.
He started early _______he could get there before nine
The policeman caught hold of the thief and hit him ____the head.