(届江西省九所重点中学高三下学期3月联合考试英语试卷)My neighbor is as ___as a young man and dislikes sitting around doing nothing all day.
How can they learn anything ______ they spend all their spare time watching television?
The rain had cleared the air, and the grass ______ fresh and sweet.
Be careful to move the equipment --- ______ it gently.
As the Spring Festival is drawing ______, people are getting busier and busier.
That fellow hung around for hours and, ______ was worse, kept me from doing my work.