Tom has agreed to let me use his computer to surf the Internet, and ____I’ m treating him to a good dinner at the newly-built restaurant just around the corner.
56. _______ for our teachers, we’d never have been able to enter this university.
15. Some of the doctors are paid almost ______ as the nurses.
14. ______ I’m well again, I can go on with my work.
13. The club women gathered ______ clothes for people in the tsunami-hit countries.
12. We can’t continue to pretend that the problem of homelessness doesn’t ______ in this city.