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2. ________ I saw her, I knew that I was in love.
3. _____________his basketball skills, Yao Ming has also shown great ability as a businessman.
6. ___________ Chinese people, Westerners tend to hold a ceremony when two people get married.
8. Yao Ming and Li Na are great athletes. ____________, they are very good at business.
9. ______________, I had received a very bad grade on a final exam of an English class, and I didn't want to fail again.
10. ______________ the traditional marriage revolved around the union of two families, more and more couples nowadays see marriage as a union of two individuals.
11. ________ I received her text message, I was standing in line at Walmart.

1. I was studying like crazy for the final exam of my English class.___________, my roommate was busy playing computer games.
4. Li Na won the French Open in 2011 and the Australian Open in 2014 and is thus the only Asian tennis player to have won major tennis championships. __________, she is the best-known Asian tennis player in the Western World.
5. Love is certainly not the only component of a successful marriage, -___________it is a key component.
7. I met her in a supermarket on a Sunday, and we went for a bowl of ice cream. __________, I couldn't stop thinking about her.