Despite the government's measures to cool the house market, housing demand in China still grew steadily in the second half of 2012,________ a rapid rise in house prices.
The little girl couldn’t work the problem out. She wasn’t ____ clever.
Listen! His family must be quarrelling, ____?
The engineers made two big plans for the dam, ____ was never put in force.
—What do you think of the concert? —I really enjoy it. I didn’t expect it was ____ wonderful.
—Tom, you are caught late again. —Oh, ____.