Buses here are always crowded with passengers, so I prefer _____ there rather than take a bus.
Nobody believed his reason for being absent from his class _____ he had to meet his uncle at the airport.
I like _____ in the autumn when the weather is clear and bright.
Great changes have taken place in that college. It’s no longer _____ it was 20 years ago, _____ it was so poorly equipped.
Though having lived abroad for years, many Chinese still _____ the traditional customs.
It had been half an hour before she found herself _____ in the wrong direction of her home.