How can we go to the island twenty miles off the coast, sir?—I’m afraid you can’t get there ________ by boat[ ]

I find English ______ to learn than Chinese now.

It is _____ Tom often surfs the Internetplaying games ______ makes his parents very angry

ly speaking, I’d rather you________anything about it for the time being

They sold their house for only 12,000 dollars, so the buyer got a wonderful ________.