We would rather die than ______ difficulty.

Life on Mars will be better than life on Earth __________many ways.

You _____ pay too much attention to your reading and listening skill, for they are of great importance. [ ]

It’s eight o’clock already. Jackbe here by now.—Oh, he told me that he was going to see his dentist and wouldn’t be back until ten.

We’re________at the________news that Saddam was sentenced to death. [ ]