I’ve become good friends with several of the students in my school _______ I met in the English speech contest last year.
He has ___ the company ___ the post for three times, but he has been ___ three times.
She squeezed the water ___ her wet clothes.
Can’t you think that a dictionary is an important ___ in learning a second language?
The number of people invited ___ fifty, but a number of them ___ absent for different reasons.
—Where would you like to go, to the cinema or theatre? —It ___ to me.