The athletes, especially the winners, should remain modest ____ rapid progress they’ve made.

There are nine books in the library.

This kind of plant is ______ to the changes of the temperature. So you should keep it from freezing.

At least 30 percent of the government speeches abandon ______ tones and embraced the most popular cyber words developed by Chinese netizens in the past year, for example, fuyun (floating cloud, indicating vanity).

Don’t come to school late next time. —_________.