______________ the last bus , he was late and was the last one __________to the destination.

________that he made an obvious mistake，Jeff went on with his speech.

Alibaba has become China’s largest online commercial company, earning _____ a profit of 6.42 billion yuan in 2011.

I hope______the child some sweets can make him stop crying.

The wild flowers looked like a soft orange blanket _______  the desert.

________ with so much trouble, we failed to complete the task on time.

The reform project _______ by Mr. White ________ at the meeting now.

Now we could not do anything but _______ for him here.

Private cars are required to take turns off roads one out of five weekdays ___the traffic pressure.

As soon as all the chairs are _______, we can let the people _______ outside enter.