153.________at in his way, the situation doesn’t seem so desperate.

150.The research requires more money than ________.

149.He would have finished his college education, but he _______to quit and find a job to support his family.

148.The student said there were a few points in the essay he _______impossible to comprehend.

147.The committee has anticipated the problems that ________in the road construction project.

146.It is not ______much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.

145.She _____fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.

144.Linda was _____the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.

143.If only the patient ______a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.

142.’you ______ borrow my notes provided you take care of them,’ I told my friend.

141.All the President’s Men ______one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.