colleagues in the company.
8. No matter how hard he had tried, his efforts to improve his image in the mind of the public proved to be ineffective.
9. It was the last thing that occurred to the commander that his soldiers would defy／disobey his orders.
10. Although the composition teacher considers these expressions nothing but cliches, they appeal very much to the students.
B. Reference version:
We should always bear in mind that in different circumstances we use the English language in different ways. This fact, however, is often forgotten. When we think about language, we too often think only of the more formal forms, especially the written forms. But we are not always reading and writing. We use slang, or at least colloquial forms, with friends and acquaintances. In certain social situations, we use clichés that we would probably blush to write down. We use polite speech when we speak to our elders or our superiors. We use high?sounding language on important occasions. We tell jokes and make comments about things or people near or far. We talk about ordinary things or of the secrets of the universe. We express feelings to one person or to a group. We choose slightly different forms of language for each of these purposes. For a native speaker of English, his choice is partly instinctive and partly based on an awareness of the kind of language that is expected of him. A good command of English must include an acquaintance with all these “registers”.
Ⅴ. Blank Filling
A. 1. a) diedb) deathc) deadd) deathly
e) deadlyf) deathlikeg) dying
2. a) judgeb) judgmentc) judges
3. a) approachingb) approachc) approached
4. a) argueb) argumentativec) argument
5. a) observingb) observantc) observations
B. (1) countries(2) translation(3) communicate(4) Translators
(5) misunderstandings(6) universal(7) centuries(8) language
(9) problem(10) realized(11) language(12) told
(13) worked(14) more(15) in(16) on
(17) Esperanto(18) same(19) countries(20) newspapers
(21) books(22) created(23) has(24) Esperanto
(25) universal
K 2?6C. (1) D(2) B(3) C(4) C
(5) D(6) B(7) A(8) B
(9) A(10) D(11) B(12) D
(13) A(14) C(15) D
D. (1) described as(2) just as plainly
(3) equals(4) get
(5) as was often the case
(6) approached a state of collapse and coma
(7) done away with