Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word/words. If ––– the environmental damage that plastic bags cause, the cost difference ––– really negligible.

1.Novelist judge an individual's mental characteristics by–––

2.Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word/words. What does B.C.E. stand for?

3.Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word/words. The train ––– late three $\times this$ week.

4.Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word/words. It –––– hardly an understatement to say that online searching –––– changed dramatically with the development of the Web.

5.Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word/words. What surprised me the most was how –––– and reacted exactly like you, said the banker to me.

6.Bangladesh has been one of the ––– in formulating and implementing a National Drug Policy in the face of the massively powerful and –––– global pharmaceutical industry.

7.Succeeding in college often is a challenge for students. ––, most colleges provide services designed to help students.

8.The woman sees the cat out in the rain; –––, the cat is gone by the time the woman goes outside.

9.The work was finished –––– time and ––– budget.

10.The troops mustered in front of the garrison. Here, the word '$muster^{\prime} means$ ––––.

11.The child sat mute in the corner of the park. Here, '$mute^{\prime} is a/an$ ––––.

12.Where ––– when you met him?