I left for the office earlier than usual this morning _____ traffic jam.

Dress warmly, _____ you'll catch cold.

No one imagined that the apparently _____ businessman was really a criminal.

At first the institute refused to purchase the telescope, but this decision was _____ revised.

The speaker _____ several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic.

Comrade Li Dazhao, _____ librarian of Beijing University, was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party.

Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had _____ two days before.

What makes the space shuttle _____ is that it takes off like a rocket but lands like an airplane.

People cannot but feel _____, for they simply cannot understand how he could have made such a stupid mistake.

When a space shuttle has accomplished its _____, it can be ready for another trip in about two weeks.