Do you know Henry didn’t win that speech contest—______ I thought for sure he would. He worked so hard on it.

Nobody knew that the reason______ he was often blamed. Perhaps that was______ he made the same mistakes told several times.

（题文）典例（2015·课标全国卷Ⅰ）依次填入下列各句横线处的成语，最恰当的一组是①这正是经验丰富的主教练在战术安排上的________之处：下半场比赛中想方设法消耗对方主力队员的体力，终于扭转劣势，赢得比赛。②经过几天的________，又和病人家属作了充分沟通，吴医生最终否定了治疗小组提出的保守治疗方案，决定尽快为病人进行肺部手术。③早在上个世纪末，当地决策者就________，提出了从单一的小农业向大农业转移的战略措施，于是一个个生态经济园区应运而生。

The television is a _____ machine.

this house with a beautiful gardenin front, but I don’t have enough money to buy______.