Did you watch the basketball match last night? —Yes. Jeremy Lin didn’t play ______ he did last week.

Millie is a good swimmer, and she can swim _____ a fish.[ ]

Is Mo Yan, the Nobel Prize winner, ______ best writer in China?—It’s hard to say. But he is really ______ very good writer.

There was a fire in the hotel around midnight last Friday. Luckily, it was soon .

The number of students in our school ___ 9,000 and a number of them ___ from the city.