23.Prices have recently risen in order tothe increased cost of raw materials.

42.Even as a girl,（ ）to be her life, and theater audiences were to be her best teacher.

41.I can’t go — for one thing, I have no money, and（ ）I have too much work.

65.Dreams are（ ）in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

64.As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the company（ ）.

63.You must let me have the annual report without（ ）by ten o’clock tomorrow morning.

62.While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time（ ）some important museums and buildings.

61.The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seemingly（ ）source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

60.Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;（ ）, it should rank high on any list of science fiction.

59.In the present economic（ ）we can make even greater progress than previously.

58.We should make a clear（ ）between “competent” and “proficient” for the purpose of our discussion.