Exercise
Grammar
用than…或者as…填空:
I can’t reach as high as you. You are taller __t_h_a_n_m__e____.
He doesn’t know much. I know more __t_h_a_n_h_i_m_/_t_h_a_n__h_e_d_o_e_s__. I don’t work particularly hard. Most people work as hard __a_s_m__e_/a_s__I _d_o____.
非限制性定语从句,修饰the Crystal Palace
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Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteenth century was the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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Exercise
While the guard was _o_n__d_u_ty_, he heard a shot. I’ve changed my mind. O__n_s_e_c_o_n_d__th_o_u__gh__ts I’ll go by plane instead. I think you dropped your handkerchief _o_n__p_u_r_p_o_s_e, so that he could pick it up. You must not, __o_n_a_n_y__a_cc_o_u_n_t_, leave this room.
It took an extraordinary amount of work.