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1. In order to learn to be one’s true self, it is necessary to obtain a wide and extensive knowledge of what has been said and done in the world.

2. This element of the unknown has for centuries added greatly to the fear and horror surrounding earthquakes, but in recent times there have been indications that earthquake prediction may be possible.

3. The accuracy of scientific observations and calculations is always at the mercy of the scientist’s timekeeping methods.

4. In Frederick, students’ parents ate buying classroom supplies and offering to pay for groceries and utilities to keep first-year teachers and principals in their jobs.

5. “Rumors about what’s happening to the distinct are moving at lighting speed.” said a student. “We wanted to know the truth, and spread that around instead.”

6. Yet the waves, no matter how big or how violent, affect only the surface of the sea.

7. In the U.S., the figure is much higher than in Great Britain, and people there spend over 10 percent of their income on the installment plan.

8. The idea of a fish being able to generate electricity strong enough to light lamp bulbs-or even to run a small electric motor is almost unbelievable, but several kinds of fish are able to do this.

9. Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool.

10. The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school.

11. When the light reaches the other end, it is first changed into electrical signals, which are in turn converted into sound messages.

12. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at a typewriter.

13.Because we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens make the policies for the nation, large numbers of us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to judge the work of experts.

14. There are many communities and populations which have lost precious records due to tragic events such as the fire in the Irish courts during Civil War in 1921 or American slaves for whom many records were never kept in the first place.

15. Theoretically, any individual will someday be able to trace his or her family origins through this database.

16 On the contrary, to avoid problems in aerial navigation, the wheel less vehicle probably will travel no more than three inches above road surface.

17. I appeal to you to clarify this issue so that the poor elderly of our city may become aware of the housing benefits for which they qualify.

18. It was believed that a person was sick because he had been attacked by evil spirits.

19. We are concerned to develop the ability of all our pupils into the full, not just their academic ability.

20. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to attain this goal.

21. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels.

22. Girls exceed boys in language abilities, and this early linguistic bias often prevails throughout life.

23. Grandma Moses painted a little as a child and made embroidery pictures as a hobby, but only switched to oils in old age because her hands had become too stiff to sew and she wanted to keep busy and pass the time.

4. The project provided opportunities for researchers from India and abroad to study tigers in the reserves and gather previously unavailable information about their habits.

25. Land problem is becoming serious and many rural people feel bitter about the fact that some rich forests are reserved for tigers.

26. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning is with the non-verbal linguistic elements of the language, its gestures, its body language.

27. Originally the White House was gray and was called the Presidential Palace.

28. This new activity involved all the original hunting sequences but the aim of the operation was no longer to avoid starvation.

29. Some scientists say that 16 of these mirrors, each about half a mile across, could aim their reflected light at one area on the earth that was about 200 miles by 300 miles.

30. What no one knows yet is what effect this artificial daytime would have on plants, animals, and humans.

31. Still, the fact remains that women are now free to enter any career that attracts them; the situation has improved, and the tide is not likely to turn back.

32. Ford realized he could use this assembly line method to build cars.

33. At the early attempts, the cable failed and when it was taken out for repairs it was found to be covered in living growth, a fact which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the sea.

34. Studies by the Council of Europe, of which 21 countries are members, have shown that 45 percent of reptile species and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of dying out.

35. Dr. Baum went on, “We could manage without most industrial products, but we could not manage without nature.”

36. Some critics claim that no excuse is acceptable for not informing subjects about the nature of an experiment and giving them a chance to refuse to participate.

37. He took a trip to southern California, and there he found just the weather and scenery he needed to finish his movie.

38. Primary and secondary education is financed almost entirely by the state out of central and local tax revenues.

39. The current opinion seems to be that this should include a general knowledge of what computers are, plus a little of their history and something of how they operate.

40. We effectively use all types of electrical equipment without being able to tell their history or to explain how they work.

41. At times they even sleep in their van instead of a hotel, just to save money.

42. As a result, these areas send out less heat and light and thus appear from Earth to be almost dark irregular surface patches.

43. Computer technology enabled the researchers to obtain precise measurements of the volume of the front and side sections of the brain, which relate to intellect and emotion, and determine the human character.

44. The interview is an important event in the job-hunting process, because the 20 or 30 minutes you spend with the interviewer may determine whether or not you get the particular job you want.

45. If possible, you should negotiate for salary after you have been offered a job and when you are ready to complete the paperwork.

46. He is, even today, a symbol of courage and adventure.

47. Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary.

48. In time, the migration became a habit, and now, although the glaciers have disappeared, the habit continues.

49. Problems come when any particular section is too thick and not sticking to the section beneath. The snow of the past few weeks had been falling in rather higher temperatures than those of December and early January.

50. The one comfort to recreational skiers, however, is that avalanche incidents on the marked ski slopes are quite rare. No ski resort wants the image of being a death trap.

51. Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take off fat.

52. The respect in which he was held was partly owing to the man himself, with his warm friendliness, his good sense, his urbanity, his gay spirits, his artistic integrity, and his love of both the Old World and the New.

53. Kidneys can be conserved in this simple way for 24 to 48 hours with little deterioration, and during this time they can be moved for long distances.

54. A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager.

55. She or he can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a private or public organization responsible for protecting consumers’ rights.

56. In this way, better quality products at good values are continually being brought to the people of all income groups.

57. Bearing in mind the nature of the translator’s work, i.e., the processing of the written word, it is, strictly speaking, unnecessary that he should be able to speak the languages he is dealing with.

58. It is also possible for a student to move between one university and another during his degree course, though this is not in fact done as a regular practice.

59. Money laundering is the process by which money obtained by illegal means is given the appearance of legitimate income and returned into circulation.

60. The liberalization of markets around the world and deregulation of exchange controls are regarded as the chief causes of the rapid expansion of the money laundering over the past decade.

61. Nobel preferred not to be remembered as the inventor of dynamite, so in 1895, just two weeks before his death, he created a fund to be used for awarding prizes to people who had made worthwhile contributions to mankind.

62. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, yet many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized.

63. Teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

64. Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion.

65. Do the constantly changing fashions of women’s clothes, one wonders, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability?

66. The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their product’s obvious advantages.

67. Many of the centenarians emphasized the importance of being independent and free to do the things they enjoyed and wanted to do, and of maintaining a placid state of mind free from worry or emotional strain.

68. Even if a job is not perfect for you, every interview can make you learn from it.

69. People who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different from the present, and that hence we can learn nothing worthwhile from the past.

70. We and the ancients share a common human nature and hence certain common human experiences and problems.

71. Perhaps the reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer.

72.“No mechanism in China requires the recall of cars as it does in Japan, but Honda decided to replace the rubber connector in order to provide the same service to Chinese consumers.”the spokeswoman said.

73. A survey conducted last year by Roper Starch Worldwide, Inc., found that almost 70 percent of the respondents said they would be happier if their families had twice as much household income.

74. The publisher was so doubtful, he wanted her to split the publishing costs with him, and all she hoped was that it would make enough money for her to buy a new silk dress.

75. Its vast influence strengthened the anti-slavery movement and angered defenders of the slave system.