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1 1. If our friends cannot take us, we must have made alternative arrangements to get to the airport. 2. No one in this department has ever accused the governor for taking advantage of his position; he is hard-working and considerate. 3. The pet dog died when it was fifteen, not of old age, but that it injured its head when it fell down a flight of stairs. 4. Casualties are said to be very high and in some villages, where older and less substantial buildings predominate, it is said that not a house remained standing. 5. It was an accepting custom in western countries for men to open the door for women and always to let ladies go first on social occasions. 6. Early industrial people used three times energy as much as their agricultural ancestors; modern people are using three times as much as their industrial ancestors. 7. Geothermal sources, though in a sense free, in order to be maintained, will end up using more energy than they produced. 8. Ever since the invention of the two-day weekend, where-to-go-for-the-holiday was a live topic for people in this city. 9. When we speak of leisure nowadays, we are not thinking of securing time and opportunity to do something; time weighs less heavily on our hands, and the problem is how to fill it. 10. There is absolutely no reason for saying that there are no regularities in Nature in which our statements of natural law correspond. 11. The first English immigrants to that is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. 12. We’d rather have long waits than no shifting of the scenes, and all the actors on the stage doing nothing. 13. The teacher said that if we believed something was true and good we should hold on to them. 14. The text and dialogues below focus on cultural differences between Chinese and Western societies which can create misunderstanding if ignoring. 15. When sailors are not supposed to be at work on the ship, they go to ashore and look around town. 16. Abraham Lincoln once spoke of democracy by saying that he would not be a slave and nor he would be a master. 17. I didn’t mind their coming late to the lecture, but objected their making so much noise. 18. It’s true that the old road is less direct and a bit longer; we won’t take the new one, therefore, because we don’t feel as safe on it. 19. Don’t make the examiner spend too much time trying to get you say something. 20. On seeing the young girl falling into the lake, Eric sprang on his feet and went to her rescue. 21. No one can predict that the consequences of urban growth on such a scale will be for the people living there or elsewhere. 22. Human beings are paying a lot for medicine and are not getting all that they think they are paying: a guarantee to endless betterment. 23. Despite his low opinion of professors — or perhaps in an effort to improve the breed — Smith himself eventually became it. 24. With the word scientist we mean one who is equipped to spend a lifetime for the advancement of science to the best of one’s ability. 2

25. Any culture, which in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, that seek to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man’s biological nature. 26. The stroke left him with serious difficulties in speaking and with an impairing memory for recent events. 27. As for the last point, it is perhaps not generally realized how difficult is it to make verbally accurate translations of extremely technical material. 28. This has caused them to deduce that science is mathematics and hardly nothing else. 29. It is no doubt that China has benefited greatly from her population policy. 30. The university, faced with tightening budgets and declining enrollments, is casting about for new ways to support and enlarge their research activities. 31. Marine biology, the study of oceanic plants and animals and their ecological relation, have furthered the efficient development of fisheries. 32. In spite of his aged appearance, his movements were as spirited as a young man. 33. Since I loved her very much when she was alive, I prize my mother’s-in-law picture and I wouldn’t sell it for all the money in the world. 34. Human beings are social animals who usually prefer not living in physical or psychological isolation. 35. People who lose weight with the help of behavioral techniques, like weighing themselves regularly and keeping records of what do they eat, seem to need the same techniques to keep the weight off. 36. The current anti-procreative atmosphere may be interpreted as a triumph of private over social interests or, more, a triumph of rational man over natural man, and the facilities of planning, reason, and choice over emotion, heredity, and instinct. 37. They cannot go camping right now because they are taking care of a three-weeks-old baby. 38. The field of dynamics in physics is concerned with a particle’s motion in relation to the forces acting it. 39. The suggestion that taxes were cut was not accepted by the mayor who foresaw a deficit that was not yet public knowledge. 40. I think I would enjoy the movie we went to last night even more if I had read the book before seeing it. 41. The trouble is, as I see it, that he is a perfectionist in his way, and he says that he will not have children when they can afford it financially. 42. I would advise you not to press the matter too hard or become convincing that money does not matter. 43. In these days, with the rising cost of life, it is dangerous for a married man to risk his place in his profession or in his community. 44. He argues that he would not want his children have to suffer hardship or not be socially acceptable because of lack of money. 45. By the time people reach the sixties and are facing with retirement, the value of money as a source of security might reach its peak. 46. Accordingly, this may be the chief reason why some people wish to get rich, as the actual goods or possessions play a secondary part to an envy or admiration that this wealth brings them.