Lesson 11. This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanishholiday.2. News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programs.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 the something criminal in their plan.5. They think that obsessive tidiness in the factory is a bad sign.6.Yesterday his mother sold several years’ worth of papers 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 the nuances of plain words and expressions.10. The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylor’s adopted son is dr iving her into anervous breakdown.11. I like to see films in general, and American Westerns and horrors inparticular.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 butpoignant/pertinant opinions.14. Though he is disabled, he never tires of helping people.15. In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severelypunished.16. Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled thepoliceman to action.Lesson 21. A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way tothe airport.B. The plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldn’t makeit.2. Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is thatexpensive clothes invariably raise one’s status.3. Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires toexcellence and abhors mediocrity?4. A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge ifyou 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 populationof this cityabandons their posts and goes in for business.6. Because they want their kids to be somebody, some well-intentionedparents exercise enormous pressure on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse.7. The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young peoplewould surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years.8. Many writers have quit writing short 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 nobody 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 their 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 studentswith a sense of justice and the love of truth.14. Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin in Sian/Xi’an tothe 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 beone of the three lucky survivors in the recent plane crash.16. In the west many people remain single because they don’t want totie themselves down (to be tied down) to responsibility.17. If nothing interferes the school sports meet will be as scheduled.18. With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an end, the best way toget acquainted with those stars.Lesson 31. 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 defeats 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 to take part.5. In designing the office building, due attention should be paid to 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 shoutingslogans.8. After the success of the experiment, for several days, he indulged himself in the luxury of sleeping late and getting up late.9. I’m not the type of person who thrives on city life. I am more accustomed to (the) life in the peaceful countryside.10. Having weathered wind and rain for hundreds of years, thesebuildings of European style are barely recognizable as they were. 11. Before the interviews, the hoary-headed father patted him on the shoulder in an extremely reassuring manner and wished him every success.12. Some people believe that the Monroe Doctrine means that European should no longer interfere with American nations or try to acquire more territories in the Western Hemisphere.13. As a remedy for the blight of mediocrity, our society should showgreater respect for excellence in education.14. The young mother lamented that it was her own lack of concern thathad driven her boy from the house that night.15. His enthusiasm ebbed away when he learned how troublesome it wasto go through the red tape in order to go abroad for further studies. 16. As prices are skyrocketing, workers are determined to go on strike,regardless of (its) consequences.17. It is absurd to wear a pair of torn blue jeans at such a formal dinner.18. The educational qualifications of intellectuals should entitle them to higher salaries.Lesson 41. John remained motionless without even blinking, because he knewwho the chairman’s remark was leveled at/against.2. The message/file/document was delivered to the wrong departmentowing to a mistake on the part of a clerk.3. It seems that in every attack Dickens makes upon society he always points to a change of spirit rather than a change of social structure.4. Before they covered 2 km in the desert, the explorers had walked themselves dizzy and exhausted.5. After their seizure of the city, the enemy troops started to despoil all the buildings.6. He had wandered in the unsavory areas of London and seen for himself the appalling living conditions of the poor.7. Conrad points to a danger that is already apparent in his friend’s writing, that of alienating his characters from their social context.8. The circumstances of her childhood are not easy to establish; these were facts she herself wished to forget.9. These pages tell at least as much, if no more, about the course of modern literature.10. Whenever an important decision is made, they defer to (the opinion of)their department head.11. As he had made bad investments, his fortune was jeopardized.12. All the staff members must be alert to the danger of fire.13. He is a person who will stand up for what he thinks right, no matter what the cost is to himself.14. The highest award he won in the international testifies to his musicaltalent.15. The peasants in that poverty-stricken area worked hard to wrest aliving from the soil.16. He spoke in such a round-about way that we found it hard to fathomhis real motives.17. In the darkness of night, an indescribable fear overtook him when hemoved on alone in the jungle.18. The local department responsible for the Hope Project has collected contributions of about 2 million yuan.Lesson 51.The first thing to do is to assess the fixed assets of that company.2. His parents bought quite a few picture books for him, but now he has outgrown them.3. The senator is not likely to slant toward this bill out of partisanship.4. To analyze trends of the stock market is the pet project of that would-be economist.5. He is fairly sophisticated, so he can identify at first glance the self-centered people in their guises.6. The simplicity and clarity of this analytic approach far outweighs its drawbacks.7. Mrs. Smith was so busily engaged in her writing that she left the disciplining of the children to her husband.8. After the first round of matches, the drawing of lots turned the scale in favor of the Chinese football team.9. He claimed that he was public-spirited as could be seen from what he had done, but his rivals declared that he was a mere humbug.10. As safety in production is neglected in that factory, a dozen workers have been maimed in the past three years.11. In that sea food restaurant, they were so overcharged that they thoughtit almost downright robbery.12. John went up to his rival and wanted to give him a hug only to be snubbed by the latter.13. In downtown Shanghai, not only have the shops undergone a facelift, but many arresting sculptures have been put up along the streets.14. What he left to his descendants as an added asset is his indomitablespirit.15. When he woke up, the early morning sunlight was filtering throughthe curtains into his bedroom.16. After learning about how they had been building their enterprisethrough arduous efforts, he had a compulsion to write a novel about it.17. In order to maintain the integrity of this ancient building, we should exclude the use of steel and glass in its renovation.18. With the consciousness that it is a multinational country, the tourists were not at all surprised to find such big differences in the customs at different parts of that country.Lesson 61. Short of funds, they couldn’t put into practice the plan they had made.2. I see her off and on in the school library, but I don’t know her name.3. I understand you are in a difficult position, and neither you nor Jack owes me any explanation.4. Mary is very angry with the manager, for he is nonchalant to her suggestion.5. Their neighbor’s son is always up to some mischief, and the child is quite unbearable.6. He bought a flat last month, and most of his savings were wiped out.7. His insane urge for greater material wealth put him onto the road to ruin.8. It’s kind of late to start now. You ought to have started two hours ago.9. As the service was poor, the volume of goods sold in that store sagged last year.10. This morning I came across him on campus and found that his face was flooded with anxiety.11. If you find the leather jacket does not fit you, the shop will refund the money.12. John’s colleagues covet his promotion very much.13. The firm’s board of directors has decided to lay off 20 engineers and300 workers.14. She intimated to me her intention of going abroad for further studies.15. When the boss heard that his factory was operating at a loss, hefocused his anger on the foreman.。