| 1. Canada's Steve Nash is one of the world's best basketball players; _______________, he is also said to be a good enough soccer player to compete at a professional level. | | |
| 2. You'd better apologize to your girlfriend; _______________, she'll probably dump you. | | |
| 3. My salary is pretty low, but _______________ I really enjoy what I'm doing. | | |
| 4. The Catholic religion holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, remained a virgin her entire life: _______________ it would have been impossible for Jesus to have brothers or sisters. | | |
| 5. He passed the course _______________ the fact that he never studied. | | |
| 6. To pass U.S. Army basic training, young female soldiers must do 17 push-ups in two minutes, _______________ males must do 40. | | |
| 7. Momentum depends on mass; _______________, because a heavy object has more mass than a light object, it has more momentum. | | |
| 8. Spices have always added flavour to a variety of dishes. _______________, they can help to preserve food where refrigeration is not possible. | | |
| 9. _______________ her brother, who hates sports, Carla is an excellent athlete. | | |
| 10. It is usually observed that children of immigrants learn to speak the language of their adopted country without an accent, __________ the parents rarely do so. | | |
| 11. You have a dangerously high cholesterol level, and __________ you do something to bring it under control, you risk suffering a major heart attack. | | |
| 12. After a long affair with her married employer, Anna decided that she wanted to date younger, unmarried men __________. | | |
| 13. Rachel was married for a number of years before realizing she was, __________, a lesbian. | | |
| 14. You'll need to clean up the bedroom, and __________ the bathroom every other day. | | |