________ seems to be a strong competition in China for senior high students to enter college or university.
— What is 10% of 800,000,000?— It is _____.
He promised _____ back in a few minutes.
Beethoven was not birth deaf. He began to go deaf, _____ he grew older.
Martin was sick with a strange fever; _______, he could neither eat nor sleep.
I was in the _____ position with having completely forgotten her name.