---How do you think of his plan? ---I was not a bit surprised, for I had fully expected _____.
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.
Juliana worked harder to ______ for the time she had lost when she was ill.