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.
