I think this trip was well worth _____we had paid.

 A fire broke out in a commercial mall unexpectedly ,     the customers and the persons working there fleeing for safety.

We’ve turned out large quantities of cars. This year      we’ve produced thirty thousand ones.

--- May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight?

--- I’m sorry. Mr. Williams        to a conference long before then.

I don’t like to travel to big cities, because to me, one city is much like        .

–-I feel down now. All my work goes for nothing.

---___________. That’s life.

The room is in a terrible mess; it ________have been cleaned.

I can’t say which sofa looks better. It’s just a (an) _____ of personal preference.

Don’t jump to conclusions so quickly. You’d better hear me     . I am not speaking for myself, but     behalf of all my colleagues.

At the end of the meeting the audience is invited to ______a question to our visiting speaker.