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Lesson 1
1. This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish
holiday.
2. News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programs.
3. By mere accident Tom met in a bar his long-lost brother who was
thought to have been killed in action during the war.
4. Bill intuited the something criminal in their plan.
5. They think that obsessive tidiness in the factory is a bad sign.
day his mother sold several years’ worth of papers and
magazines.
7. His heartening speech impelled us to (work with) greater efforts.
8. Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle often fail.
9. As language students we should have a sense of the nuances of plain
words and expressions.
10. The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor’s adopted son is driving her into a
nervous breakdown.
11. I like to see films in general, and American Westerns and horrors in
particular.
12. In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate of her mother.
13. My father never equivocated, and he always gave some brief but
poignant/pertinant opinions.
14. Though he is disabled, he never tires of helping people.
15. In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severely
punished.
16. Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled the
policeman to action.
Lesson 2
1. A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way to
the airport.
B. The plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn’t make
it.
2. Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is that
expensive clothes invariably raise one’s status.
3. Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires to
excellence and abhors mediocrity?
4. A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge if
you will fill up the form on the reverse of this card and post it.
5. It will be an absurdity, if not a catastrophe, if half of the population
of this city
abandons their posts and goes in for business.
6. Because they want their kids to be somebody, some well-intentioned
parents exercise enormous pressure on their children and the results
all too often prove the reverse.
7. The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young people
would surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a
few years.
8. Many writers have quit writing short stories because, as they say
‘there is no market for them.’ Yet Lessing sticks and she would go
on even if there really wasn’t any home for them but a private
drawer.
9. Satire under his pen is only a means to an end, a form to expose
social evils.
10. It seemed nobody at the party, not even the reporters, made special
note of the general’s absence which might have aroused the
suspicion of his rivals.
11. During their first months in the strange land, the new arrivals had to
take menial jobs refused by the natives and work like slaves to make
a living. Later, having saved enough money, most of them set up
small businesses.
12. Intellectual sluggards may get rich but they can never make good in
the academic field.
13. Schools should make prodigious effort to inculcate the students
with a sense of justice and the love of truth.
14. Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin in Sian/Xi’an to
the effect that the latter would arrive today by the night train
instead of the morning train he had mentioned in his letter.
15. All her relatives were under no illusion that her husband could be
one of the three lucky survivors in the recent plane crash.
16. In the west many people remain single because they don’t want to
tie themselves down (to be tied down) to responsibility.
17. If nothing interferes the school sports meet will be as scheduled.
18. With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an end, the best way to
get acquainted with those stars.
Lesson 3
1. These gifts had got thoroughly mixed up and needed to be sorted into
three different sets.
2. The Security Council would take issue with the proposals put forward
by the warring states.
3. Because of repeated defeats the enemy troops’ morale sank low and
their discipline broke loose.
4. In a bid to host the Olympic Games, what really counts is not the
winning but the spirit to compete and to take part.
5. In designing the office building, due attention should be paid to people
who will work inside it.
6. The well-groomed young man is impatient to wait for the bride to
arrive and the wedding ceremony to start.
7. For several weeks, the city was in (a) turmoil. The rebels had
surrounded the City Hall, hailing stones, wielding sticks, and shouting
slogans.
8. After the success of the experiment, for several days, he indulged
himself in the luxury of sleeping late and getting up late.
9. I’m not the type of person who thrives on city life. I am more
accustomed to (the) life in the peaceful countryside.
10. Having weathered wind and rain for hundreds of years, these
buildings of European style are barely recognizable as they were.
11. Before the interviews, the hoary-headed father patted him on the
shoulder in an extremely reassuring manner and wished him every
success.
12. Some people believe that the Monroe Doctrine means that European
should no longer interfere with American nations or try to acquire more
territories in the Western Hemisphere.
13. As a remedy for the blight of mediocrity, our society should show
greater respect for excellence in education.
14. The young mother lamented that it was her own lack of concern that
had driven her boy from the house that night.
15. His enthusiasm ebbed away when he learned how troublesome it was
to go through the red tape in order to go abroad for further studies.
16. As prices are skyrocketing, workers are determined to go on strike,
regardless of (its) consequences.
17. It is absurd to wear a pair of torn blue jeans at such a formal dinner.
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