Lesson One
1. This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish holiday. 2. News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programmes.
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 something criminal in their plan.
5. They think that obsessive tidiness in factory is a bad sign .
6. Yesterday his mother sold several years’ worth of paper 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 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 Western 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 opinions.
14. Though he disabled, he never tries 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 somebodies, some well-intentioned parents exercise enormous pressures 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 quitted writing 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 no body 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 the 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 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 tired down) to responsibility.
17. If nothing interferes the school sports meet will be held as scheduled. 18. With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an end, the best way to get acquainted with those stars. Lesson Three
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 defeated 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 take part.
5. In designing the office building, due attention should be paid to the 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 believed that the Monore doctrine means that European nations 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.
18. The educational qualifications of intellectuals should entitle them to higher salaries. Lesson Four
1. John remained motionless without even blinking, because he knew who the chairman remark was leveled at /against.
2. The message was delivered to the wrong department owing to a mistake on the part of a clerk.
3. It seems that in every attack Dickens makes upon society he always points to a change of spirit rather than a change of social structure.
4. Before they covered 2 km in the desert, the explorers had walked themselves dizzy and exhausted.
5. After their seizure of the city, the enemy troops started to despoil all the buildings.
6. He had wandered in the unsavory areas of London and seen for himself the appalling living conditions of the poor.
7. Conrad points to a danger that is already apparent in his friend’s writing, that of alienating his characters from their social context.
8. The circumstances of her childhood are not easy to establish; these were facts she herself wished to forget.
9. These pages tell at least as much, if no more was jeopardized.
10. Whenever an important decision is made, they defer to (the opinion of) their department head.
11. As he had made bad investments, his fortune was jeopardized. 12. All the staff members must be alert to the danger of fire.
13. He is a person who will stand up for what he thinks right, no matter what the cost to himself.
14. The highest award he won in the international contest testifies to his musical talent.
15. The peasants in that poverty-stricken area worked hard to try and wrest a living from the soil.
16. He spoke in such a round-about way that we found it hard to fathom his real motives.
17. In the darkness of night, an indescribable fear overlook him when he moved on alone in the jungle.
18. The local department responsible for the Hope Project has collected contributions of about 2million yuan. Lesson Five
1. The first thing to do is to assess the fixed assets of that company.
2. His parents bought not a few picture books for him, but now he has outgrown
them.
3. The senator is not likely to slant toward this bill out of partisanship.
4. To analyze trends of stock market is the project of the would-be economist.
5. He is fairly sophisticated, so he can identify at first glance the self-centered people
in their guises.
6. The simplicity and clarity of this analytic approach far outweighs its drawbacks. 7. Mrs. Smith was so busily engaged in her writing that she left the disciplining of the children to her husband.
8. After the first round of matches, the drawing of lots turned the scale in favor of the Chinese football team.
9. He claimed that he was public-spirited as could be seen from what he had done, but his rivals declared that he was a mere humbug.
10. As safety in production is neglected inn that factory, a dozen workers have been
maimed in the past three years.
11. In that sea food restaurant, they were so overcharged that they thought it almost
downright robbery.
12. John went up to his rival and wanted to give him a hug only to be snubbed by the
latter.
13. In downtown Shanghai, not only have the shops undergone a facelift, but many
arresting sculptures have been put up along the streets as well.
14. What he left to his descendants as an added asset is his indomitable spirit.
15. When he woke up, the early morning sunlight was filtering through the curtains
into his bedroom.
16. After learning about how they had been building their enterprise through arduous
efforts, he had a compulsion to write a novel about it.
17. In order to maintain the integrity of this ancient building, we should exclude the
use of steel and glass in its renovation.
18. With the consciousness that it is a multinational country, the tourists were not at
all surprised to find such big differences in the customs at different parts of that country.
Lesson Six
1. Short of funds, they could not put into practice the plan they had made.
2. I see her off and on in the school library, but I do not know her name. 3. I understand you are in a difficult position, and neither you nor Jack owes me any explanation.
4. Mary is very angry with the manager, for he is nonchalant to her suggestion.
5. Their neighbor’s son is always up to some mischief, and the child is quite unbearable.
6. He bought a flat last month, and most of his savings were wiped out. 7. His insane urge for greater material wealth put him onto the road to ruin.
8. It’s kind late to start now. You ought to have started two hours ago. 9. As the service was poor, the volume of goods sold in that store sagged last year.
10. This morning I came across him on the campus and found that his face was flooded with anxiety.
11. If you find the leather jacket does not fit you, the shop will refund you the money.
12. John’s colleagues covet his promotion very much.
13. The firm’s board of directors has decided to lay off engineers and 300 workers. 14. She intimated to me her intention of going abroad for further studies. 15. When the boss heard that his factory was operating at a loss, he focused his anger on the foreman.
Lesson Seven
1. A letter of thanks is the verbal expression of one’s gratitude. 2. The US automobile industry has come under persistent pressure from Japanese competition.
3. So far, progress of a greater or lesser degree has been made in the research on superconductors in various countries.
4. We must inculcate in people respect for knowledge and for people of talent.
5. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, many members of the nobility shorn of their wealth fled abroad.
6. A special envoy has been sent to find out how things stand in that country tormented by a civil war.
7. The social status of women in China today has been enhanced, as witness the vast number of women holding leading positions. 8. A note of desperation in her voice gave her away.
9. It is not an exaggeration to say that the quality of the color TV sets made by this factory is better than that of 3 years ago.
10. With the improvement in management and administration, the labor productivity of that factory is higher than it has ever been since China’s adoption of the reform and opening policy.
11. Such research as these doctors are doing will have far-reaching significance in the field of medicine.
12. They have learnt a lot from the lesson of the past. If not their own then that of some other people of the same trade.