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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