_________ New Year’s Day around the corner, all the salesmen were trying hard to talk customers_________ buying their goods.
Each of the students, hoping to pass the exam, _____the book.
----Each of the students, working hard at his or her lessons,___to go to university.-----So do I.
He told me the news_____, believe it or not, he had earned $1 000 in a single day.
He has read the book as many as, if _____ than, five times.
This church is as old as, if _____ than, that one.