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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