In many countries more and more forests and even agricultural land are being lost to development, _______ much of the land to become desert.

Jane, Peter has got a well-paid job in a foreign company—You mean he is much _____ now

________ clock, made of brass and dating fromthe nineteenth century.

How did it that he is so badly off when he earns quite a good salary?

－Does theyoung man standing at the gate_____ the car－No. The caris _____ his father.