They met for the first time, but they talked happily as if they______ good friends for a long time.
Jim isn't _____, but he did badly in the final exams last semester.
The manager said that they had an _____ plan if the plan they had submitted was not accepted.
Because the children keep interrupting her whenever she reads a book, she is always _____ her place.
Russia's withdrawal of its experts from China did not strangle (压垮) the Chinese people; _____ it stirred up their enthusiasm for greater exertions.
She has lost her handbag with the _____ sum of $150 in it.