1. To look at him you’d never think he was ___ fifty.
2. The teacher said that her writing skills were ___ below average.
3. Everything went ___ as planned.
4. Historians can't say with precision what ___ happened eight thousand to ten thousand years ago in human history.
5. He found the test difficult, ___ attempted to do it.
6. I love Rome, ___ in the spring.
7. He thought the bag was heavy, but it was ___ light.
8. You should place the picture ___ in the middle of the front page.