do youthink of Thomas —Well, he is good, warm-hearted, hard-working andintelligent; _______, I can’t speak too highly of him.

Running a company is not _______ a matterof hiring people — they also need to be trained.

We hope that the measures to control the stock market, ____ are taken by the government, will work.

The two old friends were ____ busy ____ with each other that they forgot the time.—Yes. They hadn’t met for over ten years, so they kept talking the whole night.

He had planned to make a compromise, but ______ hechanged his mind at the last minute.