1. I am going ____ a journey ____ my new bike, but she'll go ____ bus.
2. Today my grandpa wants to go shopping ____ foot instead ____ by bus.
3. Towards evening, we put ____ our tent ____ the foot of the mountain.
4. What's the difference ____ temperature ____ the day and the night?
5. His parents are very strict ____ him ____ his studies.
6. ____ her childhood, she has dreamed ____ having a chance to climb the Great Wall.
7. Of course, my sister hadn't looked ____ a map; she didn't care ____ details.
8. ____ this point they had to change their heavy clothes ____ light ones.

     The time l. ________ Elias first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period in his life. Mandela was
the black lawyer 2. ________ ________ he went for advice. Mandela was generous with his time, 3.________
_________ Elias was grateful.
     Elias had very little education. The school 4. ________ Elias studied for only two years was three kilometers
away. The reason 5.________ he had to leave was that his family couldn't continue to pay the school fees and
the bus fare. After trying hard, Elias got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time 6.________ one had
got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Elias didn't have it and worried about whether he would be out
of work.
     The day 7.________ Nelson Mandela helped him was one of his happiest. When Mandela organized the
ANC Youth League, Elias joined it as soon as possible. Mandela said," The last thirty years have seen the greatest
number of laws stopping our rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage 8.________ we have
almost no rights at all. We were put into a position 9.________ ________ we had either to accept we were less
important, or fight the government..." Elias never forgot how kind Mandela was.

1. The man ____, told me this refused to give me his name.
2. The girls ____ the company employs are always complaining about their pay.
3. The friends ____ I traveled with spoke very good French.
4. Usually people will expect those ____ report the news to speak excellent English.
5. The friends with ____ I traveled spoke excellent German.
6. The USA is a large country ____ many different dialects are spoken.
7. The hotel ____ he used to live is not far from where you are living.
8. The supermarket ____ you visited last year has been closed, too.

1. Add your scores ____ and we'll see who will win.
2. He can't go with you to the cinema ____ he finishes cleaning his bicycle.
3. How concerned her mother was ____ her study at school!
4. ____ walking his dog in the morning, he came across an old friend of his.
5. Annie and her family hid away for nearly twenty-five months ____ they were discovered.
6. Annie didn't want to write down a series of facts in her diary ____ most people had done.
7. It is along the river bank ____ he takes a walk every morning.
8. The sick pupil who had left school long grew so crazy about everything to do ____ school life.
9. Sorry I can't go with you. I'm suffering ____ a bad headache.
10. Mother asked the child whether he was very hot with so many clothes____.

1. Justin went straight to his room. I didn't see him, but I heard him put ______ his 
   favorite CD.
2. In the corner, there is a garbage can ______ which are pieces of garbage and waste 
   paper.
3. The aliens took me ______ the UFO so that they could do research on me.
4. Yeti and Bigfoot are similar ______ a creature known as the Wild Man of Shennongjia.
5. I studied a lot yesterday and stayed ______ very late. I didn't feel very well this 
   morning.
6. Things change so quickly! I'm now in hospital recovering ______ liver failure.
7. ______, the trip will take six days. That means I'll have to sit on a camel for almost
   a week-how uncomfortable!
8. I look back on my time in the UK ______ satisfaction, and I really hope to go back and
   study in Manchester again.
9. Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no one understands them and the changes they are
   going ______.
10. Diets are useless in the long term, yet ______ 20% of teenagers say they have tried
    going on a diet and skipping meals to control their weight.