1. The girl is younger than the other girls in her class.          
     The girl is the _______ in her class.      
2. The boy can't surf, the girl can't surf, either.         
    The girl can't surf. _______ can the boy.      
3. Tom went to school in a hurry this morning.       
     Tom _______ to school this morning.     
4. It took the workers 20 hours to do the work.         
    The workers _______ 20 hours doing the work.     
5. To learn English well is not very difficult.
    _______ is easy_______ _______ English well. 

A. building
B. to build
C. build

     An 88-year-old Indian farmer, named Virmaram, becomes the father of a baby boy. 1_____ says he takes
long walks every day and has been drinking fresh camel milk since childhood. He has three wives. His third
wife is 45 years younger and gave birth to the boy twins last month, but only one boy was alive.
     Workers are showing a handmade cloth shoe. The shoe, a part of a blessing for the Beijing 2008 0lympic
Games, was made at a shoe factory in Yichang, Hubei Province. 2_____  The shoe is 2 metres in length and it
weighs 4.5 kg.
     A girl shows her painting at a pressure-control class in Beijing. 3_____  and tell a story according to the
drawing to reduce their pressure. 
     4_____ The dried noodles have become a new source of income to the villagers. They produce the fine
noodles in a traditional way.
     A man, who stole about 5 000 pairs of school shoes, was caught by the police on Wednesday. "I enjoy the
smell." 28-year-old Massashi Kamate said to the police. "5_____"

A. The teacher requires every student to paint freely
B. The rich farmer, with a white beard and an old face.
C. The smell of indoor school shoes makes me excited.
D. A man dries noodles in the open air in Yanxie Village of Lingbao city, Henan Province.
E. It took the workers 208 days to finish it.