1 . I said I would write to you, but________usual I never got around to it. （用适当的词填空）

2 . But the city’s one million people were asleep________ _______that night
但在那晚，这城市的百万人像平时一样睡着了

4 . 尽管他身患疾病，他仍然像往常一样努力工作。（用despite翻译）(汉译英)

5 . 像平常一样，他上学迟到了。
He was late for school _________ _________.

6 . ______ ______(像往常一样), there weren't many people at the meeting.

7 . 尽管她那天生病了，她像往常一样第一个到学校。
Though she was ill that day, she was the first to come to school ____________.

8 . 从所给7个短语中挑选5个并根据句意用其正确形式填空。

1. The small town lay ______________ after the typhoon.
2. He ______________ a divorce at the moment, which is why he seems to be absent-minded.
3. ______________, no one knows the truth at last.
4. In my opinion, every chance should ______________ to practice our oral English.
5. Right after retirement, they ______________ to go and settle in the countryside.