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Unit 1
1, Britain has been in
too long a period of stillness without taking any
particular action against the
enemy.
2,
We
are
sure
to
experience
both
Triumph
and
Disaster,
but
must
avoid
clouding
our
judgment
through
exaggerating their importance.
3, Never
give in unless we are convinced that it is
honourable and sensible for us to do so.
4, Other nations thought that Britain
was completely conquered.
5, We will
win as long as we hold on to the end.
1. I had arranged for them to meet each
other at the pub, but the young man never turned
up.
2. You cannot tell merely from
appearances whether things will turn out
unfavourable to us or not.
3. The
soldier, who stood in the gap in every battle,
gained the highest honors of the country.
4. the chairman spoke so forcefully
that the rest of the committee yielded to his
opinion.
5. They are well-to-do now,
but along the way they had their ups and downs.
6. There are two questions to which I
will address myself in this lecture.
7.
We are planning a big Christmas party in your
honour.
8. Hearing that tune threw my
mind back to my childhood.
Unit 2
1. The phrase
“personal space” has odd touch that was
characteristic of the 1970s.
2. In hot summer days people can be
drawn to each other, especially to the opposite
sex ( or feel
disgusted with the
closeness of others. )
3. People in
different regions are given different sizes of
personal space.
4. It is quite common
that one person occupies a booth and a set of
facing seats designed for four
people.
5. The author hopes that his own stand
against the shrinking of personal space, while
small in itself,
will nonetheless
eventually have a dramatic effect in the same way
as the breeze from a butterfly’s
wings
in Japan, if it initiates a chain of waves, may
eventually produce a tidal wave in California.
1. The pigeon was wedged in
the fork of a branch and it fell after a while.
2. The payment that the
motorist will have to make is proportional to the
amount of damage he has
done to the
other person’s car.
3. You
can only enter the cave by inching through a
narrow tunnel on your stomach.
4. She
stammered some apology for entering my office
without knocking as she sidled towards the
door.
5. He took pains to
explain to me that I was not being dismissed
because I didn’t do my work
well
but because the company was confronted
by financial troubles.
6. The
enlistment of young soldiers infused new hope and
morale into the army.
7. Once the older
boys stake a claim to the lawn, the younger ones
had to give way to them to avoid
conflict.
8. The man
following her made her uneasy and she couldn’t
help quickening her steps.
Unit 3
1.
As
the
Internet
can
be
reached
and
used
with
relatively
few
restrictions,
it
plays
a
role
in
connecting people
globally, which is comparable to traveling through
international waterways.
2. A lot of
people talk about the
the
idea
that
the
Internet
separates
people
from
each
other
and
fragments
society
further
as
a
result.
3. I think that in
our society the top priority is given to the
satisfaction of one's immediate needs.
The Internet is the best means to
achieve this purpose, for on the Internet one can
do whatever he
likes to.
1, There's no denying that smoking is
addictive. And once you are addicted, it's very
difficult to get
rid of the habit.
2, In a Japanese-made video game,
players can simulate the experience of AIDS from
HIV infection
until death.
3, I
’m sure he was in
earnest when he said that you could use this money
to continue your
study of
music.
4,
We
can
only
increase
production
at
the
expense
of
quality,
which
could
ruin
the
company's
reputation.
5, She is not often given to anger, but
this time she really lost her temper.
6, A teacher of foreign language should
possess at the very least a graduate degree from a
certified
education school or institute
if he is to teach high school.
7, I
soon perceived that I couldn't make him change his
mind.
Unit 4
1,
The
responsibility
was
therefore
placed
on
Yamahata's
shoulders
to
record
the
effects
systematically and
incidentally with a great and simple artistry.
2, That vanished city rather than its
remains represents the true measure of the event.
3, In the photographs Nagasaki regains
its own status.
4, The human
imagination had been exhausted and stopped at the
wreckage of the first ruined city
and
failed to reach even the outskirts of Nagasaki.
5, Apart from the pictures of Nagasaki
we seem to need some other picture to inspire in
us a hope of
life to counterbalance the
sense of doom suggested by the ruined Nagasaki.
1. Their cattle were
branded with the letter C.
2. In this
season Brooks has really come into his own as a
goal scorer.
3. An economic crisis is
hanging over that country.
4. He is the
man who really gives the order, but he always
remains in the background.
5. After
dispatching the messenger, what is left for us to
do is nothing but to wait.
6. You just
have to call and he's here in a flash.
7. They have lived in the shadow of war
for totally seventeen years.
8. These
are the last seven Northeast Tigers in existence.
If human beings failed to protect them, the
tigers of this species would face
extinction.
Unit 5
1, Slowly, the movie gave a panoramic
picture of the characteristics of friendship.
2, This was not simply a shift from one
fashion to another, but a trend toward more
realistic and
natural depictions in cinema-making.
3, The tendency to present only men as
capable of true friendship was challenged by the
appearance
of a more subtle approach.
4,
Buddies
act
tough
to
show
off
to
each
other,
so
would
not
reveal
weakness; friends
show
their
need for
each other and are ready to confess weakness.