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hinese with the discovery of the rockets.

2. Nevertheless, the modern day space programs owe their success to the humble beginnings of those in previous centuries.

2. But the discovery, beginning two years ago, of a vast Aboriginal graveyard at Lake Victoria near the confluence of the Murray and Darling rivers has thrown even this into doubt.

3. In it races, cultures, and ideas, as well as goods from a variety of places, jostle, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city.

4. When allowance is made for these two additional elements of uncertainty the population size necessary to be confident of persistence for a few hundred years may increase to several hundred.

5. A method to eliminate pathogenic bacteria and inhibit their growth during storage of weaning preparations can benefit nutrition and health in young children considerably.

6. The development of a program in environmental studies within a science curriculum is the most suitable title for Reading Passage 1.

被动语态

1.In this case, interest will be charged after the initial 60-day interest-free

period.

2.All students on student visas are expected to attend classes regularly.

3.Coal is expected to continue to account for almost 27% of the world’s

energy needs.

4.In addition, major research and development programs are being devoted

to lifting efficiencies and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases during coal consumption.

5.Greenhouse gases arise from a wide range of sources and their increasing

concentration is largely related to the compound effects of increased population, improved living standards and changes in lifestyle.

6.Before they can be disposed of safely, ……..

7.For the foreseeable future, records will be made to be broken.

8.No account was to be taken of national rivalries, nor politics, race, religion,

wealth or social status.

9.Other social effects have been blamed on the car such as alienation and

aggressive human behavior.

10.Changes in pupil size are clearly associated with changes in attitude.

11.Adults and children are frequently confronted with statements about the

alarming rate of loss of tropical rainforests.

12.This was largely characterized by the bold use of new materials and simple,

geometric forms.

13.Such weaknesses are more than compensated for by cetacean’s

well-developed acoustic senses.

14.The productivity increases in the hierarchically controlled pogramme were

accompanied by shifts in an adverse direction in such factors as loyalty, attitudes, interest, and involvement in the work.

1.It does not pose as much threat to the environment.

2.Until there is a belief among employers, until they value the difference,

nothing will change.

3.For all these reasons, the Agriculture Department, which must decide

whether to allow the genetically engineered grass to be marketed, is conducting a full-scale environmental impact assessment.

4.Children harbor misconceptions about pure, curriculum science.

5.The history of Europe has been documented since 3,000 BC.

6.In the New York region, state legislative and Congressional delegations

have mounted vigorous campaigns to safeguard their bases.

7.Through its collections, the Department’s specific interest is to document

how objects are created and used, and to understand their importance and significance to those who produce them.

8.That few seconds will color their attitudes from then on.

9.Overall, female students outnumbered male students in the survey.

10.Wasteful practices and rising logistical costs have halved the amount of food

delivered to the hungry in Africa, Asia and Latin America over the past five years, a report states.

11.Worse, the surviving panda population has also become fragmented.

12.In addition, lack of sleep can tax the heart and lead to serious conditions

like heart disease.

13.Private banks and lenders have waged a successful campaign to limit a

federal program intended to make borrowing less costly.

14.The economic arguments for building new nuclear plants are flawed.

15.But the true, downward trend in fishing worldwide was masked because

these catches were measured in tones, not dollars.

16.The commercial, financial, and administrative centers are still grouped

around their harbors even though each city has expanded into a metropolis.

17.The realization has gradually dawned that by no means everyone in the

world knows English well enough to negotiate in it.

18.The wall is engineered to be stable under design wind load.

19.Google’s new search-within-search feature has sparked fears from

publishers and retailers that users will be siphoned away through ad sales to competitors.

20.Superstar rapper Jay-Z is on the verge of closing a $150 million deal with

the concert giant Live Nation that rivals the biggest music contracts ever awarded.

重要介词/介词性结构

despite 尽管

1.It had a great influence on silent movies, despite its size.

2.So despite linguists’ best efforts, many languages will disappear over the

next century.

3.An oil shock is a more worrying prospect, despite today’s low oil prices and

O PEC’s present inability to budge it upward.

4.Despite the great progress made in the recent decade, the achievement of

the goal of clean water for all is still a long way off.

5.Despite the extensive coverage in the popular media of the destruction of

rain forests, little formal information is available about children’s idea in this area.

6.Conversely, despite the increase in paper production, there was a decrease,

by 1884, in the number of paper mills in England.

7.Despite the intuitive conclusion that safe driving should be teachable (like

many practical skills), there is insufficient evidence about the ability of practical driver-training to reduce crashes for the general driving population.

8.Mitchell’s achievements with the Supermairne S.B. also prompted the Air

Ministry to contract his company for design of a new fighter aircraft, despite the organization’s reputation being built predominantly on sea-plane and not fighter plane manufacturing.

in spite of 尽管

1. Of this, the French displayed the most continuity, in spite of the war and post-war economic uncertainties.

in terms of 关于在….方面

1. There are still significant gaps between women and men in terms of their involvement in family life, the tasks they perform and the responsibilities they

take.

regardless of 无论

1. Regardless of the theory or model that we choose, a reduction in population size decreases the genetic diversity of a population.

with respect to 关于

1. To be more precise, with respect to the total range of response from the smallest pupil size the largest, the range is greater for blue-eyed people than it is for brown-eyed people.

given 具有,表示顺承关系

1. Given anything that resembles a well-rounded life—with adults and other children to listen to, talk to, to do things with—their minds will acquire naturally all the skills required for future learning.

一般倒装句

1.Attached to the booking confirmation will be a note showing the balance

due on your holiday and the date by which it is payable.

2.In the heart of the city are several big apartment stores linked by enclosed

over-the-street crossings and underground walkways.

3.There is little point, in terms of identifying those responsible for the crime, in

ensuring a very rapid response.

4.Again there are carbon-free energies that merit more subsidies than

nuclear.

5.There is bound to be one that fits in with your academic, personal or

professional commitments.

6.In

7.Nor, at least for many years yet, will fish be off the menu for those who

have enough money.

8.Never before has the planet’s linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace.

非谓语动词

to do

1. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. -ing

1.They are more prone to falling over and getting dirt in a wound than adults.

2.Coal’s total contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is thought to be about

18%, with about half of this coming from electricity generation.

3.Specialist agriculture centers of the North Coast College offer courses

ranging from agricultural skills to beef production, horse studies and rural management.

4.Earlier this century Karl von Frisch, a professor of Zoology at Munich

University, spent decades of ‘the purest joy of discovery’ unraveling the mysteries of bee behavior.

5.In the first type, a returning scout scampered in circles, alternating to right

and left, stopping occasionally to regurgitate food samples to the excited bees chasing after her.

6.At Rhodes, the Fanwall noise barrier will be built in three stages

commencing in mid August.

7.For example, vision is obviously more useful to species inhabiting clear open

waters than to those living in turbid rivers and flooded plains.

8.These renegade bacteria then multiply, increasing their numbers a million

fold in a day, becoming the predominant microorganism.

9.In 1821 Crompton patented a method of drying the paper continuously,

using a woven fabric to hold the sheet against steam-heated drying cylinders.

10.In the third, distinctly different dance, she started by running a short

distance over 1500 wildlife sites including ancient woodlands and sites of special scientific interest are still threatened by road building.

11.Academic journals ranging from educational research, psychology, language

learning, psycholinguistics, and so on cite experiments which demonstrate how detrimental pictures are for beginning reader.

12.People experiencing poverty, unemployment, underemployment or little

control over the conditions of their daily lives benefited little from this approach.

13.In addition a far greater number of women are now passing through higher

education, making them better qualified to move into management positions.

14.A mother’s wanting her partner to do more housework and child car e is

better predictor of poor family adjustment than is actual time spent by fathers in these tasks.

15.This dependence on motor vehicles has given rise to major problems,

including environmental pollution, depletion of oil resources, traffic congestion and safety.

16.Yet most Third World cities have lower public transport use per person than

those in Western Europe, reflecting the inability of small bus fleets to keep up with population growth.

17.In the first type, a returning scout scampered in circles, alternating to right

and left, stopping occasionally to regurgitate food samples to the excited bees chasing after her.

18.Taking only this uncertainty of ability to reproduce into account, extinction

is unlikely if the number of individuals in a population is above about 50 and the population is growing.

-ed

1.These courses give you the theoretical skills, knowledge and practical

experience needed to work in a variety of residential and community-based health care institutions.

2.Ducks are immune to some common diseases found in hens and are less

vulnerable to others.

3.Powerful computer-aided design (CAD) systems can replace with a click of a

computer mouse hours of laborious work done on thousands of drawing boards.

4. A bee’s brain is the size of a grass seed, yet in this tiny brain are encoded

some of the most complex and amazing behavioral patterns witnessed outside humankind.

5.Each card, called a ‘Prepaid Services Card’, has a unique, six-digit account

number that accesses the system.

6.The Transport and Roads Department apologizes for any inconveniences

caused while improvements are in progress.

7.This, combined with northerly winds, makes it seem much colder.

8.It made movies based more on its own culture than outside influences.

9.From 1845 matchmakers exposed to its fumes succumbed to necrosis, a

disease that eats away jaw-bones.

10.The loss of genetic diversity associated with reductions in population size

will contribute to the likelihood of extinction.

11.In addition, a program modeled on an earlier project called ‘Take Charge’

was implemented.

12.Children engrossed in a make-believe world, fox cubs play-fighting or

kittens teasing a ball of string aren’t just having fun.

13.The most common procedure for doing this is negotiation, the act of

communication intended to reach agreement.

14.A representative sample of language, compiled for the purpose of linguistic

analysis, is known as corpus.

15.The costs to individuals and desperate communities now deprived of

meaningful and sustainable employment are staggering.

16.We are now promoting a true national network, composed of traffic-free

paths, quiet country roads, on-road cycle lanes and protected crossings. 17.One misconception, expressed by some 10% of the pupils, was that acid

rain is responsible for rainforest destruction.

18.Alternative medicine appears to be an adjunct, sought in times of

disenchantment when conventional medicine seems not to offer the answer.

19.The quantity of these gases, again multiplied over 3,500 million years, is

enough to explain the mass of the world’s atmosphere.

20.Put another way, basic health care is now recognized as a ‘public good’,

rather than a ‘private good’ that one is expected to buy for oneself.

21.The force of the water being released from the reservoir through the dam

spins the blades of a turbine.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/eb10292598.html,missioned by Roberto Olivetti in 1969, it comprises 82 one-bedroomed

apartments and 12 maisonettes and forms a house/hotel for Olivetti employees.

23.Hypotheses arise by guesswork, or by inspiration, but having been

formulated they can and must be tested rigorously, using the appropriate methodology.

24.Seven luxury homes cosseted away inside a high earth-covered noise

embankment next to the main Tilburg city road recently went on the market

for $296,500 each.

25.Originally developed for nuclear power plants, the handkey received its big

break when it was used to control access to the Olympic Village in Atlanta by more than 65,000 athletes, trainers and support staff.

26.Far from being evolutionarily retarded, prehistoric Amazonian people

develop technologies and cultures that were advanced for their time. 27.Afterwards, supported by the royal grant in recognition of his work, he was

able to devote himself entirely to astronomy.

28.Bypassed by most of their former enriching flow of exchange, they have

become cultural and economic backwaters or have acquired the character of museums of the past.

It形式主语句

1.It is important that you keep a record of your card’s account number and

sign your name or write your student ID number on the card.

2.It becomes clear that the importance of response time in collecting evidence

or catching criminals after a crime must be weighted against a variety of factors.

3.It is clear from this statement that the creation of health is about much

more than encouraging healthy individual behaviors and lifestyles and providing appropriate medical care.

4.It is worth remembering that it is customary for a gift given to a company to

be shared out around the office concerned.

5.In the mid-1990s it is estimated that a student living alone requires on

average A$12,000 in living expenses for each year of study.

6.It has been suggested that children hold mistaken views about the pure

science that they study at school.

同位语结构：逗号/括号/破折号结构

表示解释

1. Another interest-based procedure is mediation, in which a third party assists the disputants, the two sides in the dispute, in reaching agreement.

2. Errors in the genetic recipe for haemoglobin, the protein that gives blood its characteristic red color and which carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body,give rise to the most common single-gene disorder in the world: thalassaemia.

3. Passive smoking, the breathing in of the side-stream smoke from the burning of tobacco between puffs or of the smoke exhaled by a smoker, also causes a serious health risk.

4. But it was only in 1820 that quinine, the active ingredient from the cinchona bark, was extracted and modern prevention became possible.

5. Malnutrition during weaning age—when breast milk is being replaced by semi-solid foods—is highly prevalent in children of poor households in many developing countries.

6. But the classic eruption—cone-shaped mountain, big bang, mushroom cloud and surges of molten lava—is only a tiny part of a global story.

7. In 1992, the United Nations Environmental Programme and the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that all of a sample of twenty megacities—places likely to have more than ten million inhabitants in the year 2000—already exceeded the level the WHO deems healthy in at least one major pollutant.

8. Even assuming that the WZCS’s 1,000 core zoos are all of a high standard—complete with scientific staff and research facilities, trained and dedicated keepers, accommodation that permits normal or natural behavior, and a policy of co-operating fully with one another—what might be the potential for conservation?

9. Where logging occurs (that is, the cutting down of forests for timber) forest-dependent creatures in that area will be forced to leave.

10. However, arboreal marsupials (that is animals which live in trees) may not recover to pre-logging densities for over a century.

11. Two of its branches are ethnography (the study at first hand of individual living cultures) and ethnology (which sets out to compare cultures using ethnographic evidence to derive general principles about human society).

12. As a consequence, during the 1980s a kind of doomsday scenario (analogous to similar doomsday extrapolations about energy needs and fossil fuels or about population increases) was projected by health administrators, economists and politicians.

13. Though Aborigines might see themselves as indigenous (in the sense, as Josephine Flood explains, that they have no race history not associated with this continent), there is no doubt that they were in fact Australia’s first migrants.

表示补充说明

1.The history of the cinema in its first thirty years is one of major, and, to this

day, unparalleled expansion and growth.

2.Other coach breaks have a limited number of rooms with private facilities

which, subject to availability, can be reserved and guaranteed at the time of booking.

3.Some lagoons and reefs, once pristine examples of a tropical paradise, now

consist of broken skeletons of dead coral, buried in layers of silt.

4.Physical anthropology, or biological anthropology as it is also called,

concerns the study of human biological or physical characteristics and how they evolved.

5.It wasn’t until the discovery of the reaction principle, which was the key to

space travel and so represents one of the great milestones in the history of scientific thought, that rocket technology was able to develop.

6.There is an anticipation, especially through daydreaming and fantasy,of

intense pleasures, either on a different scale or involving different senses from those customarily encountered.

7.However, it is also a place where some children are exposed, with little or no

protection, to exploitative employment, urban crime and abuse.

8.However, community water points still suffer breakdowns and attempts to

remedy this, through community managed pump maintenance schemes, are still far from universal successful.

9.Deforestation, mainly carried out by farmers cleaning land to make way for

fields as they move higher into the mountains, has drastically contracted the mammal’s range.

10.The latest conservation management plan for the panda, prepared by

China’s Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature, aims primarily to maintain panda habitats and to ensure that populations are linked wherever possible.

11.Firms that once bashed everything out of steel now find that new alloys or

composite materials (which can be made from mixtures of plastic, resin, ceramics and metals, reinforced with fibers such as glass or carbon) are changing the rules of manufacturing.

12.Thus species such as the native raspberry, which would be an agricultural

success had it not had to compete with established European varieties at the time of European settlement, are of no commercial value.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/eb10292598.html,nguage has become impoverished—sometimes to the point of

extinction.

14.For the so-called power events—that require a relatively brief, explosive

release of energy, like the 100-meter sprint and the long jump—times and distances have improved ten to twenty per cent.

15.In addition, almost all strategies for assessing subjective

well-being—including those that sample people’s experience by polling them at random times with beepers—turn up similar findings.

16.Baleen species studied at close quarters underwater—specifically a grey

whale calf in captivity for a year, and free-ranging right whales and humpback whales studied and filmed off Argentina and Hawaii—have obviously tracked objects with vision under water, and they can apparently see moderately well both in waster and in air.

从句

宾语从句

1.But the origins of what is now generally known as modern architecture can

be traced back to the social and technological changes of the 18th and 19th centuries.

2.Determining who is the more powerful party without a decisive and

potentially destructive power contest is difficult because power is ultimately

a matter of perceptions.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/eb10292598.html,anizations should recognize that their employees are a significant part of

their financial assets.

4.But Byers points out that the benefit of increased exercise disappear

rapidly after training stops, so any improvement in endurance resulting from juvenile play would be lost by adulthood.

5.Nevertheless, recent studies of the larger reservoirs formed behind dams

have implied that decomposing, flooded vegetation could give off greenhouse gases equal to those from other electricity sources.

表语从句

1.Part of the problem was that no satisfactory method of bleaching pulp had

yet been devised.

2.The assumption is that the investigation of deviance can reveal interesting

and significant aspects of normal societies.

3.What makes the water issue even more urgent is that demand for water will

grow increasingly fast as larger areas are placed under crops and economic

development.

定语从句

which/that

1.Meanwhile, films themselves developed from being short ‘attractions’ only a

couple of minutes long, to the full-length feature that has dominated the world’s screens up to the present day.

2.But by studying the dance on the inner wall of the hive, von Frisch

discovered a remarkable method which the dancer used to tell her sisters the direction of the food in relation to the sun.

3.Tourism is a leisure activity which presupposes its opposite, namely

regulated and organized work.

4.It is a system of signs that enable us to categorize phenomena that are

essentially ambiguous.

5.The complexity, degree and sustainment of organizational performance

requires an explanation which goes beyond the balance sheet and the paper conversion of financial inputs into profit making outputs.

6.Cutting the hefty subsidies that go to the world’s coal producers would help

tilt the wor ld’s energy balance toward natural gas, which gives off much less c

7.The digested dung in these burrows is an excellent food supply for the

earthworms, which decomposes it further to provide essential soil nutrients.

8.The suffragette movement, which campaigned for votes for women in the

early twentieth century, is most commonly associated with the Pankhurst family and militant acts of varying degrees of violence.

9.Some of the senses that we and other terrestrial mammals take for

granted are either reduced or absent in cetaceans or fail to function well in water.

who

1.It is for students with a business studies background who can manage a

heavy workload that will contain a greater degree of academic study.

2.Members of staff who have paid the requisite fee and display the

appropriate permit may bring a vehicle into the grounds.

3.It (Course B) is for students with a business studies background who can

manage a heavy workload that will contain a greater degree of academic study.

4.Those who are prepared to live in share accommodation, which may not be

suitable for all, might manage on A$10,000 per year.

5.This suggests that politicians who claim environmentalism is yesterday’s

issue may be seriously misjudging the public mood.

6. A number of species are available from the CSIRO or through a small

number of private breeders, most of whom were entomologists with the CSIRO’s dung beetle unit who have taken their specialized knowledge of the insect and opened small business in direct competition with their former employer.

介词搭配引导词

1.Alternatively, there may be a coin meter, in which case you will be advised

when you are making your booking.

2.All the courses are taught by highly qualified teachers, many of whom also

teach on Language Institute graduate programs in second language teaching and applied linguistics.

3.Variation within a species is the raw material upon which natural selection

acts.

4.What are the underlying mechanisms by which fermentation processes help

to prevent or reduce contamination?

5.First introduced in 1982, these are organizations which provide children

under five with a domestic setting in which they are intensively exposed to the language.

6.The WZCS estimates that there are about 10,000 zoos in the world, of which

around 1,000 represent a core of quality collections capable of participating in co-ordinated conservation programmes.

7.developed, which is essential for these children as future decision makers.

8.These observations are generally consistent with our previous studies of

pupil’s views about th e use and conservation of rainforests, in which girls were shown to be more sympathetic to animals and expressed views which seem to place an intrinsic value on non-human animal life.

9.Those surveyed had experienced chronic illnesses, for which orthodox

medicine had been able to provide little relief.

10.When a sprinter runs, Yessis explains, her foot stays in contact with the

ground for just under a tenth of a second, half of which is devoted to landing and the other half to pushing off.

11.It is the difference, for example between the academic papers with which

Crick and Watson demonstrated the structure of the DNA molecule and the fascinating book The Double Helix in which Watson (1968) described how they did it.

12.The particular individual with whom one is concerned in the analysis of any

situation is usually given the name of focal person.

where

1.The atmosphere at the College is that of an adult environment where a

relationship of mutual respect is encouraged between students and tutors.

4. A branch of Waterstone’s bookshops is located on campus, where you can

buy a range of stationery, drawing equipment, artists’ materials and books, as well as many other useful items you may need.

5.The atmosphere at the College is that of an adult environment where a

relationship of mutual respect is encouraged between students and tutors.

6.Fishermen tend to live in places where few other jobs are available.

1.This led to a rise in the number of small to medium sized hydroelectric ore

left-handed males than females.

2.It is no coincidence that left-handed children, forced to use their right hand,

often develop a stammer as they are robbed of their freedom of speech.

3.The Human Genome Project holds the promise that, ultimately, we may be

able to alter our genetic inheritance if we so choose.

4.For example, one graphic illustration to which children might readily relate is

the estimate that rainforests are being destroyed at a rate equivalent to one thousand football fields every forty minutes—about the duration of a normal classroom period.

5.Despite the fact that rockets had been used sporadically for several hundred

years, they remained a relatively minor artifact of civilization until the twentieth century.

6.Theories that the origins of spring, arctic haze, first seen over the ice cap in

the 1950s, came from far away were at first not accepted.

状语从句

条件/时间状语从句

1.The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days

when the paper was written, edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the journalists working on the upper floors and the printing presses going on the ground floor.

2.Unless previously suspended or cancelled, this license must be renewed on

or before the date of expiry.

3.When the victim is directly involved in the crime, however, as in the case of

a robbery, rapid response, provided the victim was quickly able to contact

the police, is more likely to be advantageous.

4.Not only with doctors or lawyers is the required role behavior so constrained

that if you are in that role for long it eventually becomes part of you, part of your personality.

5.For instance, when tobacco researchers found that much of the nicotine in a

cigarette wasn’t released when burned but rather remained chemically bound within the tobacco leaf, they began adding substances such as ammonia to cigarette tobacco to release more nicotine.

6.As few as six such parasites may be enough to pass on the infection

provided the human’s immune system fails to kill the parasites before they reach the liver.

7.Another aspect of the good bedside manner, which is more often than not

overlooked, is having the ability to talk to patients using lay language that they understand, while, at the same time, avoiding any hint of condescension, or being patronizing.

8.As (随着) people’s awareness and knowledge have increased, albeit often

misinformed by the Internet etc, the stronger their doubts about the medical profession have become.

原因状语从句

1.It is important that you attend regularly as low attendance will affect your

results.

2.This is probably the document’s first failing, as I believe that 10,000 is a

serious underestimate of the total number of places masquerading as zoological establishments.

3.Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labor and

capital that goes into producing virgin pulp.

4.Hurricanes differ from tornados, in that the former develop in warm, tropical

oceans whereas tornados develop on land and are more aggressive and potentially destructive.

5.He noted that since the left hemisphere of the brain control the right half of

the body, and vice versa, the brain damage must have been in the brain’s left hemisphere.

6.Since the aim of archaeology is the understanding of humankind, it is a

7.Geographical changes also took place as many of the early mills were small

and had been situated in rural areas.

8.Humidity and precipitation provide moisture that can slow fires down and

reduce their intensity, as it is hard for fuel to ignite if it has high moisture levels.

9.This is certainly no easy task, as most people’s expectations are raised by

the daily diet of wondrous developments in medicine.

10.Recent work by Simon Hewson is of great interest here for it shows that, for

young children, too, the difficulty lies not in the inferential processes which the task demands, but in certain perplexing features of the apparatus and the procedure.

11.For as well as protecting existing habitat, providing purpose-built

accommodations for commercial species (such as lobsters and octopi) and acting as sea defences, they can be an effective way of improving fish harvests.

while/whereas 连接转折状语从句

1.Whilst offering values for money within the price range, they may not have

the full facilities to cope with special diets.

2.In Europe, only Germany proved industrially capable, while in the new

Soviet Union and in Japan the development of the cinema took place in conditions of commercial isolation.

3.Good health has been connected to the smooth mechanical operation of the

body, while ill health has been attributed to a breakdown in this machine. 虚拟语气

1.Should none of your choices be available, we will do our best to suggest