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1）Jack is a student who thrives on activity.
2) She was thinking of a strategy before her next move.
3) Companies publish their annual reports to inform the public about the previous years activities
4)We’ve done a lot of work and we deserve a break.
5)Louisa made a spontaneous decision to board a train for London to visit her aunt.
6)I want to express my sincere apologies for what I said.
7)Stocks are regarded as good long-term investments..
8)The new enterprise will hire additional staff.
9)You should follow up your letter with a phone call.
10)The hero of the book is characterized as a person of very strong principles.
11)Smoke lingered long after the fire was put out.
12)In his speech he acknowledged the help his parents gave him at the start of his career.
13)There are now a lot more women in the legal profession.
14)The city council has plans for constructing two new schools and a hospital.
15)At night the harbor lights up.
16)We soon found that prices differed enormously
17)We’re losing money –in part because, with our ancient computers, we can’t stay competitive.
18)Advanced computer systems could trace the origin of every gun used in a violent crime.
19)But his aspirations go beyond the global: he envisions outer space as his next frontier.
20)You should continue to lead a healthy life, such as eating a balanced diet, taking exercise and keeping warm.
21)Beyond this, however, many of the claims were supported by anecdotal and subjective impressions only.
22)The above discussion may give the impression that this is a predominantly quantitative study.
23)When the fire is hot, lay the mushrooms on the rack
24)Climate and geography are the underlying reasons for the region’s low level of economic development.
25)In Britain, packets of cigarettes come with a government health warning attached to them.
26)As they had no children of their own, they adopted an orphan(孤儿)。

27）It really bothered me that he had forgotten my birthday
28) He encountered many interesting people on his travels.
29)She overcame her initial shyness and really enjoyed the evening.
30)The drug, which was shown to have serious side effects(副作用)，has been withdrawn from the market.
31)He is anxiously awaiting the result of the medical tests.
32)It would take too long to do a manual search of all the data.
33)The child exhibited a bad temper at an early age.
34)He appointed a time for the meeting.
35)It is generally believed that mature is kind and nice, but in fact, it does a lot of nasty things to us, such as volcanoes and earthquakes. In addition to natural 1）disasters, there are plenty
of ways in which technological society2)poses major threats to our lives and health, especially through 3)damage to the environment in which we live. The unhappy fact is that we have some grounds for 4)thinking that many air and water 5)pollutants may be risky, but we have as yet no dependable data on the size of the 6)risk they pose. In other words, although we have a pretty good idea of the 7)amount of the principal pollutants 8)released into the air and water in a particular area, there are very few studies on the health 9)effects of specific concentrations of particular pollutants. Such studies are difficult to perform because there are too many 10)variables outside our control.
36）The ignorant villagers were found guilty of possessing petrol bombs.
37) Let’s discard some of these old newspapers.
38)The police were trying to trace the mother of a new-born baby found abandoned（遗弃）outside the hospital.
39)The drunk man staggered, then steadied himself by grabbing the railing.
40)I was in a shop when I saw a lady looking carefully at me. She’ recognized me, and sure enough , the came across the room.
41)Some women do manage to achieve business success against all odds.
42)You are mad, Isabel. You should be locked up.
43)You’re heading for trouble if you go on behaving like that.
44)Listening to the tedious speech for over two hours, the audiences’ eyes glazed over with boredom.
45)The instruments glowed in the bright orange light.。