However : her eyes, however, glowed.
rather than : you can at least watch the movie rather than reading the book.
comparable to : the climate is comparable to that of north Italy.
far from being : he is far from being stupid.
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It is where the audience sat
A. Australia had not yet been fully
discovered.
Two other countries had already discovered a part of Australia, or bumped into it, but they were not interested. Captain Cook was told about this, thus he wanted to explore any land he found.