Though the number of Japanese army was _____ that of our Eighth Route Army, they lost the battle in that mountainous village.
— I phoned you yesterday morning. A girl answered, but I didn’t recognize the voice.— Oh, it ____ my younger sister. She was in my room at that moment.
Not far from the club there was a garden, ____ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.
They ______ on the program for almost one week before I joined them, and now we _____on it as no good results have come out so far.
— Have you heard of the North Korea’s nuclear test? — Yes, ________ news came as ________ shock to me.
Mr. Bush is on time for everything. How_____ it be that he was late for the opening ceremony?