1. I went
to the conference but for most of the time I felt ____like______ (1) a fish out
of water. I knew nobody there and everyone else behaved ___as_______
(2) if they
had all known each other for years. I left just ____as______ (3) soon as I
could and arrived home ___earlier_______ (4) than planned.
2. I've
always preferred classical music _____to_____ (1) pop music. I'd much __rather________
(2) listen to a forty-five-minute symphony ______than____ (3) a three-minute
song. Pop songs seem so ____much______ (4) less interesting, harmonically and
melodically, and the insistent, repetitive drumming is about ___as_______ (5)
much fun ___as_______. (6) banging your head against a wall.
3. My
father was a jack of all trades in those days, as ___were_______ (1) all
village school headmasters: digging holes for swimming pools _____as_____ (2) a
full-time labourer, marking out athletics tracks in the manner _______of___ (3)
a professional, teaching arithmetic to the top class in ___as_______ (4) time
as he had free. The ____more______ (5) he did, the more was expected of him by
the village community, as if he should ______devote____ (6) every waking hour
to the well-being of his pupils. And he did. Nowadays one hears people talk of
headmasters as if they ___were_______ (7) accountants, balancing their ____books______
(8) as efficiently ___as_______ (9) they can. I think I'd __not________ (10)
have been a headmaster in the old days.
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