13. To dump unclear waste at sea will seriously affect the environment, and not merely marine life alone. 14. At first, he was reluctant to undertake the task, but when he started, he went at it with a will.
15. He went against the traffic lights when riding his bicycle. He explained to the policeman at length as if the change of the lights from green to red were to blame for his violation of traffic regulations.
16. The rewards of their design turned out to be worthy of the time and funds they had spent.
17. The fact that Green mismanaged the factory is sufficient cause for not appointing him director again.
Lesson Eight
1. Her many years of laborious efforts culminated in a successful exhibition of her paintings in Hangzhou last year. 2. Known as a child wonder when he was a kid, for he could write beautiful poems at seven, he did not grow to be a scholar and his literary talent proved only a flash-in- the pan.
3. It suddenly dawned on me that Lant was on the verge if bankruptcy. There had been reports that the finance of his business was in a deplorable tangle.
4. Wholesale indulgence of the only child in the family actually does no good but a lot of harm to its growth.
5. When we old friends met, we would talk about our career and families. Susan told me that her brother Stephen, now on the bright side of thirty, is a successful lawyer in a southern city. And I learnt that Teddy, on the shady side of forty, recently married a Thai girl.
6. An occasional prod is good for children, but too many prods can only produce negative, if not disastrous, effect.
7. She can hardly believe that the expensive dress she bought last year has already gone out of fashion.
8. A Sino-British Exploration team was being organized to cross the vast expanse of the Taklimakan Desert. When he learned the news , the young reporter could not resist entering for the expedition.
9. Jim’s intransigence has proved a handicap to his relations with his colleagues.
10. Every Saturday those kind-hearted people will go to the Children Welfare Institute and each will bring a child home; and the handicapped child, showered with love, will spend a happy weekend in his new home where he is made to feel to be a member of the family.
11. I could visualize my childhood friend, now a rising film star, surrounded by fans, smiling and nodding to everyone who was trying to accost her.
12. I am all too familiar with Harry type. He will invariably make a fuss over a trivial matter.
13. The son played the game both ways successfully, which culminated in a harmonious relationship between his mother and his wife.
14. Somerset Maugham may rightly be referred to as a versatile writer, whose novels, plays, short stories and other works are still extremely popular and are widely read today.
15. In the four-star hotel lobby the Chinese artist was accosted by two overseas Chinese who later hosted a dinner party in his honor.
16. Because Jack had a facility for figures he took to accounting like a duck to water.
17. In the dusk of the evening the young girl became a little scared when she found she was the only person on the country road with a car bogged down.
18. Everyone should try to look on the bright side of life even when misfortune befalls him.
19. You can never imagine what fun the few of us far away from home got out of spinning yarns after work in those days.
20. The Nazis wholesale murder of Jews during World War II is the most outrageous crime in human history.
Lesson Ten
1. The goat is ancient creature that has done much for man. One of the small services the goat has rendered to man is in the way of language. For example, some men wear goatees, thin whiskers that hang down their chins like the whiskers on a goat.
2. The would-be boss smiled as he came into the reception hall , which put the employees immediately at ease.
3. Some poets want to live in a perpetual lethargy so that their life can proceed with the ultimate quiet and freedom and they might compose poems in a semi-somnambulant state.
4. Vultures are hovering over the cliff, below which a fierce battle was fought the night before, and hundreds of dead soldiers are still lying unburied before there.
5. The Indians in North America often send news over long distances by beating out a message on a hollow log.
6. The senior journalist sank into his easy chair with great
relish and began to indulge in recollections of those battles in the war that he had witnessed at first hand.
7. In that remote and backward mountain , the tribal chieftains often scourged captives with whips and then made them slaves.
8. The well-groomed secretary had to run all the way at the news, and yet he arrived with not a hair out of place.
9. It is raining cats and dogs outside! I rather sit by the cozy fire and not venture out in the pouring rain. 10. The upshot of the young man infatuation with his study of butterflies made him so restless with the present job that he asked to be relieved of his duties and later went to Africa. 11. At the commencement , everyone was in a fever pf excitement ( a fever of frenzy) Graduating students shook hands with their beloved professors, embraced their buddies, and threw their caps into the sky. 12. When the war-time hero appeared on the rostrum, the audience gave him a standing ovation and looked at him with admiration and respect. 13. The members of joint exploration team tried their best to save their slender stock of water for the camels, their ships in the desert. 14. In those difficult years, he was sent to Inner Mongolia, where he rode herd for a collective farm near the border. 15. I should say he is a unique landscape painter, at any rate for someone who is colorblind.
16. Tom was none too happy about the outcome of the election.
17. His aloofness has strengthened the estrangement(misunderstanding, barrier) between him and his colleagues.
18. The President’s advisors tried their best to prevail upon him to cancel the trip.