Unit 1
1.If you had had a spark of consideration for your family ,you wouldn't have taken so many stupid risks .
2.Due to the lack of an adequate labor force ,even woman in this village were compelled to work in the coal mines .
3.We went through lovely countryside with great mountains ,some of them beautiful and green and wooded ,while others bare and wild .
4.The cleaner took off his coat and began to scrape the ashes from the furnace with his bare hands .
5.People in that area are already threatened with environment destruction since 60% of the forest there has been destroyed .
6.The auto company has seen a huge increase in the output of private cars this year due to the improved working efficiency .
7.Under severe attack from enemy aircraft ,the troops were forced to retreat from the front .
8.When I came up to a giraffe lying on the grasses ,I found that it had been killed with a spear tipped with poison .
9.He stayed eight days in an open boat with no food ,and he was still alive ;his survival was a miracle .
10.Survival of the fittest is an eternal truth of nature .
11.His heart sank when he saw the fresh pile of mails ,memos and telephone messages on his desk .
12.The military goverment refused to transfer power to ademocratically elected civilian government .
13.In that area nearly six million people are affected by the drought and the civil war ,and there is areal danger of mass starvation .
14.Postal service personnel who are severely irresponsible purposely delay sending mail ,thereby giving rise to great loss of public trust .
15.With the increase in the number of foreign funded enterprises ,various kinds of financial disputes have emerged .
16.The earthquake may trigger landslides that cause great damage and loss of life .
17.Deforesting and global warming threaten to ruin the current and future state of our environmen .
18.It was reported that almost 7 million liters consumed during the 16-day beer festival in germany that year .
19.On a bitterly cold night ,the only shelter he could find was the hollow trunk of agreat tree .
1.Short after the goverment's new policy was put into effect ,the economy of our country began to show signs of recovery .
2.We know well what difficulties we had to cope with in bringing our work to a successful conclusion .
3.She lives in fear of getting injured and never participated in any violent sports games .
4.It looks like this snow will stop the food supplies and we shall be hungry for a time ,but we've no choice but to tough it out.
5.Many trees in this area have been cut down to make room for buildings ,which has worsened our living environment .
6.In order to avoid possible infection by the unknow viruses ,researchers are protected from head to foot with caps ,face masks and white gowns .
7.Despite the warm wearher the explorers searched out some snow on the northern slope and boiled it for drinking water .
8.Starting bare-handed ,you have built up so many steel plants .this is nothing short of miraculous !
9.As yet we have't felt the need for any extra hands ,but its only a matter of time .
10.While one cannot choose ones birthplace ,one can certainly decide ,based on what one has experienced ,the best place to settle in .
11.Parents who spend time and mony teaching their children music ,can take heart from anew canadian study .which shows young children who take music lessons have better memories than their nonmusical peers.
Unit 2
1 Sudies show that if a working environment is pleasant, productivity increases.
2 Private space travel is a relatively new phenomenon. It’s difficult at the moment to assess its effects.
3 Alll of us need to build up ralationships with others unless we choose to live in complete isolation from the outside world.
4 Sonce sending her child to the kindergarthen ,she has been delighted to see a gradual change in the boys character ;he seems less self-centered now.
5 As an active environmentalist, Davis has earned a reputation as an outspoken opponent of any kind of nuclear waste dumping at sea.
6 Quills were the chief writing tool from the 6th centuryuntil the advent of steel pens in the mid 19th century.
7 Dp you think it will ever be possible to alter human genetic code in order to produce the perfect human being?
8 In the end her sheer competence and professionalism won universal respect within and out of the government.
9 his political views are rather extreme; I hate to discuss anything with him.
10 The cheap perfume you see on special offer in petrol stations often smells nasty after a couple of hours.
