The number of people invited ______ fifty, but a number of them ______ absent(缺席) for different reasons.

We were in Qingdao last week and ____ great fun there.

I have more storybooks than _________ do.—- But your books are not as interesting as _________.

This composition is ___ order, ___ makes the teacher ____.

the long journey, the three of them wentback home,_______