— Hi, Jack, would you like to join us in the sightseeing this weekend?—Thank you, but I regret ______ you that I can’t, for I’m going to visit my grandparents.
_______ and guilty, Maggie put the book on the shelf she had secretly placed in her schoolbag.
--- Goods imported from abroad are ________ those made in China. --- Yes. Some of the goods made in our country are of high quality.
Now that she is out of a job, Lucy _____ going back to school, but she hasn’t decided yet.
The British are not so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, _____ is often the case in other countries.
The factory near the seaside was closed down as a(n) _______ of the terribly bad management and fund shortage.