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2008-05-03 12:03:50

Lesson 20

The students have access to the library only in the afternoon.

Last year we had several floods, we had an excess of rain.

Long age Eskimos learned how to adapt to the cold to live in the Arctic Region.

The club adopted a new set of rules concerning its membership.

His adverse criticism didn’t upset me, but encouraged me.

My parents are averse to our picnic plan; they don’t approve of it.

The government decisions whether to continue the project will affect the future of our national economy.

I have warned him to drive slowly several times, but it doesn’t have any effect at all.

The new secretary is sincere and quite without affectation.

His gentleness and kind ways increased his colleagues’ affection for him.

The preacher likes to make an allusion to Homer while preaching.

The white walls create the illusion that the room is very large.

My birthday party is the biggest annual event of my family.

The judge annulled the contract because one of the signers was too young.

The couple appraised the house carefully before offering to buy it.

The club members were immediately apprised of his change of plans.

We should try to settle the matter by argument, not by fighting.

The king augmented his pore by taking over rights that had belonged to the nobles.

The man assured himself that the bridge was safe before crossing it.

He insured his car against accident, theft, and fire.

Don’t forget to check your work to insure its accuracy.

The doctor tied up the patient’s broken ankle with a bandage.

They seem to love bondage more than liberty.

Pack the books in a small carton to carry it easily.

Political cartoons often represent the U.S. as a tall man with chin whiskers, called Uncle Sam.

The novel was banned by the censor as likely to stir up suspicion of the government among the readers.

Every dictator censors the newspapers in his country.

The principal of the school censured the students for their rude behavior.

Many people were killed in the collision between the bus and the car.

The leaders of the collusion against the government were caught and punished.

I have only one confidant to whom I can tell my secrets.

The doctor felt confident that his patient would recover from pneumonia.

I am Swedish. Is there a Swedish consul in Omaha?

The council of ministers advised the king to dismiss the general.

The young man refused to listen to the old man’s counsel.

The murder suspect refused to answer the questions on the advice of his counsel.

The Hopkinses run the biggest dairy farm in the state of Arizona.

It is very rewarding to keep a diary of daily happenings.

Upon his decease all his properties passed to his wife.

Measles and chicken pox are two diseases of childhood.

It is not decent to laugh at a crippled person.

The road makes a sharp descent just around the corner.

The three justices dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision.

Dissent among the senior members was the main cause of the disintegration of the club.

Lesson 21

Lawrence rode a camel across the desert on an exploring expedition.

He had intended to desert his wife and children, but changed his mind.

Strawberry pie is one of my most favorite desserts.

Many students know how to disassemble the radio, but few know how to put it together.

She tried to dissemble her anger with a smile on her face.

I’ve made a first draught of my speech for Friday, but it still needs a lot of work.

The long drought has killed most of the crops in the fields.

She knows a lot of eligible young men who are all rich and attractive.

The ink had faded so that many words were illegible.

Washington was eminent both as general and as president.

The scientist predicted that an earthquake was imminent in Tokyo area.

The members exalted Mr.Smith when they elected him president of the association.

All the people exulted to find that our national team won the gold medal in the International Basketball Tournament.

The trap made of an old tin can and some wire is an ingenious device.

The ingenuous person had never thought of being suspicious of what others told him.

When my little brother sees mother holding the new baby, he becomes jealous.

The clerk in the toy section of the department seems very zealous in pleasing the customers.

The dress that Miss Lee was wearing at the party was made of synthetic material.

The statesman said the Iron Curtain countries had vast resources in manpower and materiel.

George Washington is known to be a moral and just man.

I am sure that we will win the battle, the morale of our troops is very high.

Freedom of religious worship was guaranteed to all settlers in the Northwest Territory by the ordinance of 1787.

The pirate ships in the West Indies were armed with heavy ordnance.

The minister worked very hard to make the rounds of his parish and visit the homes of the sick.

They said that this flower would not perish even when frost comes.

The police still don’t know who perpetrated the murder of the housewife.

This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of the national hero.

Many psychologists are inclined to attribute the formation of personality entirely to the operation of the cultural and physical environment.

That car is his personaly using it without his permission is illegal.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

The engineer of the wrecked train was prosecuted for criminal negligence.

He prosecuted an inquiry into reasons for the company’s failure.

The author takes his portable typewriter wherever he goes.

They set up purifying systems in dozens of places where the water was not potable.

Good citizens always do what the laws prescribe.

The doctor prescribed a new medicine for the pain in my joints.

In earlier days, the church proscribed dancing and card playing.

Slaughter and destruction are terrible realities of war.

His realty includes a big mansion and several buildings in Taipei.

Nearly every city in the United States has a statue of some famous man.

A man six feet tallis above average stature in this part of the world.

My family is going to have a short vacation on the east coast .

You will not make a good teacher,unless you feel teching is your vocation.

Lesson 22

My wife is an alumna of National Taiwan University.

President Kennedy was an alumnus of Harvard University.

My son and my daughter are both alumni of Ohio State University.

Cats are amoral,they can’t be censured for killing birds.

Lying and stealing are considered immoral conducts in every human society.

Most scientists believe their research to be unmoral,no matter what the results will be.

Stamp collecting as well as fishing is Mr.Evan’s favorite avocation.

Bookkeeping is Mr.Jones’ vocation, and photography is his avocation.

Our school doctor recommends  biannual visit to the dentist,I am going to the dentist’s for the second time this year.

The sophomores and seniors are taking the biennial exam this afternoon.

He is replacing the broken chord of his violin.

He had tied the package with a cord before he took it to the post office.

He clenched his teeth to endure the pain of the wound suffered from the accident.

By clinching nails over the canvas they held the torn sail to the mast.

For fifty years or more the climate of the Arctic has been warming up gradually.

The weather will be very hot and humid in Kaohsiung today.

We compared two books to see which one had the better illustrations.

She contrasted her presetn life of luxury with the poverty of her childhood.

The words “snake”and “red” have unpleasant connotations for many people.

The denotation of the word “home” is “place where one lives,”but it has many connotations.

Cheating on a test is considered one of the most contemptible acts in the Military Academy.

The rich man is contemptuous of my humble home and poor surroundings.

We experienced a continual series of hot spells last summer.

On holidays, we can see a continuous line of cars on highways.

It hardly seems credible that your son has grown so tall in one year.

Only a credulous person would fall for that old trick.

An umpire must be an entirely disinterested but keen observer.

The audience yawned and seemed uninterested in the politician’s speech.

The office where everything had worked so smoothly,became completely disorganized after Mr Levine resigned.

Form a union,an unorganized mob can accomplish nothing but chaos.

A well-balanced diet is made up of divers foods.

A great many diverse opinions were expressed at the meeting,but none was worthwhile.

The training airplane has dual controls,oen set for the learner and one for the teacher.

The opposing two lawyers fought a duel to settle their differences.

John is such an egoist that he only cares about himself.

Marian is such an egotist that she talks about herself all the time.

After the shower, the sun emerged from behind the clouds.

He immerged his aching feet in a bucket of hot water.

It is expected that the total number of emigrants from this country will reach 20000 this year.

California has several thousands of immigrants from other states.

Lesson 2

The judge absolved the man of the crime.

The umpire should have no bias in favor of either side.

Our baseball team is contending for the championship.

We deplore the terrible traffic accident in which 30 persons were killed and 50 injured.

The boy fell from a tree and suffered fractures of his right arm and leg.

A crowd of great magnitude attended the President’s inauguration.

The pith of his speech was focused on the importance of education.

I have no relish for seeing people being whipped.

Trying not to be seen, they quietly sneaked into the room.

The messenger brought tidings from the battlefield.

Many people would be aghst at the thought of another war.

We shall not cumber our thought with his reproaches.

The city government decreed that all dogs must be licensed.

The children were frolicing with the puppy in the backyard.

There was much commercial intercourse between the two countries before World War II.

In dry weather forest fires are a great menace.

I was standing on the very edge of a bank, a precipice not less than fifty feet deep.

The church is generally considered as a sanctuary.

After a light spring rain,leaves began to sprout from trees.

She trod lightly in order not to wake the sleeping baby.

The soldiers still had their guns but they were out of ammunition.

A doting mother alienates her husband by lavishing too much love on their child.

The artist ws so engrossed in his pinting that he didn’t notive the people watching him.

If you got a deep cut in your arm, there’s usually a gush of blood.

The deep river was an insuperable barrier to those who could not swim.

Her life has been full of ordeals,sickness,poverty and loss of her beloved son.

He kept his tobacco in a leather pouch fastened to the belt.

The brakes screeched and the car suddenly stopped with a jerk.

A man who is six feet talll is bove the average stature in China.

The President’s enemies are spreading ill rumors to undermine his authority.

The house is unsafe since the foundations were undermined by floods.

Damages from last week’s flood have been assessed at $50000.

The children searched each and every chamber of the house for the cat.

The Congress of the United States has two House of  Representatives.

Now that she is rich,she disdains to speak to her old friends.

One day Robinson Crusoe espied a foot print on the sand.

The beautiful glossy coat of the cat shone as it lay in sunlight.

The janitor swept the floors and locked up the building every night.

She bought a packet of envelops at the stationery store.

The eloquent and ornate carving on a church pulpit was done by Indian hands.

The meat was black and scorched outside but still raw inside.

The grass is scorched by so much hot sunshine in summer.

The ship surged in the stormy seas,rolling and pitching with each wave.

Pots,pans and kettles are useful kitchen utensils.

When the soldiers ran out of ammunition, they fixed bayonets to their rifles.

Compassion for the orphans caused him to give money for their support.

Lazy boys sometimes are detained at school to do extra work after ordinary lessons are finished.

The police detained the suspected thief for more questioning.

A faction in our club tried to make the president resign.

The diamond shoen with every hue under the bright sun.

He polished the metal until it had a fine luster.

The deeds or heroes add luster to a nation’s history.

He persevered in his study until he succeded.

Because of his high fever,the sick man raved all night.

He intended to slay his fatheer’s murderer.

The doctor told her to take three tablets a day.

Nowadays an actress with voluptuous beauty seems to be more popular than the one with intelligent look.

Lesson 3

The only access to the farm house is across the rice fields.

Only high officials had access to the emperor.

The guide for visitors beckoned us to follow him.

I concur with the speaker in condemning every criminal.

This summer two weeks of rain concurred with our vacation.

He was denounced as a coward and traitor.

The first blow makes the anger,but the second makes the fray.

Long wear had frayed the collar and cuffs of his old shirts.

Heavy clothing hampered the movements of the climbers.

Cancer and tuberculosis are serious maladies in every country.

The old man was plodding wearily along the bank of the river.

Since the factory moved,this town has only a remnat of its former population.

The child with a cold in his nose snored all night.

Blood tinged the water as he washed his wound.

It was necessary for them to have remedies for their ailments.

The children are bickering with each other about who is the tallest among them.

The inventor contrived a new kind of engine with fewer moving parts.

The bright light of the motor car on the dark country road dazzled my eyres.

She fumbled about in her handbag for a pen to write a memorandum.

Poor food and hard work impaired her health and she became thin.

The parents were mortified by their children’s bad behavior before the guests.

The United States became the predominat nation in the Western Hemisphere.

He worked to improve the sanitary condtions of slums.

He always keeps a lot of money in his wallet.

Do you consider the wild behavior of the crowd was enough of a warrant for the police to use force?

The ford foundation allocated millionjs of dollars for cancer research.

The brawl in the street could be heard in the house nearby.

The boys made several cynical remarksj to cover up their disappointment at being left out of the play.

She embellished the simple dress with colorful laces and ribbons.

The defence of the alamo was a heroic action of gallant men.

He immersed his aching feet in a bucket of cold water.

He rode his new bicycle up and down in front of our house in an ostentatious way .

Soapy followed the man with a presentiment that luck would again run against him.

She was so satiated with bananas thaat she would not even look at one.

The field of wheat was undulating in the breeze.

A shop selling woman’s apparel is at the corner of the street.

He cajoled his fridends into deciding in his favor.

You can discard your old coat but not your old friends.

During the middle ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.

She has had a grudge against me ever since I disagreed with her.

Four men kidnapped the little girl, but he police soon caught them and rescued the girl.

There is some hope that a peace pact will be signed between the two countries.she pries tooo closely itno the private life of her friends.

Men scoured the whold coundtry looking for the lost child.

The servant scoured the frying opan until it shone like silver.

He swaggered down the street after winnign the fight.

The building of this house in the shape of the temple was a rich man’s vagary.

Ability to get along with people is an asset in busineess.

There was a deep opolitical chasm between the two countries which nearly led to a war.

The cities of Greece and Asia were despoiled of their most valuable ornaments.

I became angry with the little boy at his facetious remarks.

The wing of the airplance came off and the machine hurtled to the ground.

He wanted to be acused of larceny, because he felt comfortable in prison .

He sworked so hard that the weariness pervaded his whole body.

Though he was tortured to make him change his religion the prisoner would not recant.

He left his affairs in a complete shambles when he died.

Eating human flesh is a taboo in civilized countries.

He wore all the trappings of high office.

Lesson 4

When the king abdicated his throne, his brother succeeded him.

Ability to think clearly will accrue to you from good habits of study.

The salesman has been badgering my father for two weeks to buy a new car.

They succeeded in baffling the enemy’s attack plans.

He conjectured that his new stocks would rise on eh stock market.

The poor woman’s mind has been deranged for many years.

The natives thought the explorer was possessed by a fiend.

The mother was pining to see her son and daughter.

The gas almost smothered the coal miners but they got out in time.

The long climb up the mountain made her heart throb rapidly.

Many people usually drink hot broth when they are sick.

Some tiny plants grow in the crevice of the stone wall.

The duke’s son demeaned himself by doing manual babor with his servants.

We fostered the young girl while her mother was in hospital.

Our country has prospered by various incentive systems.

A guide led us through the maze of tunnels in the cave.

She pored over the picture book in silence enjoying the various colors.

Like human skin,soil has holes that are called pore.

Pick up the rubbish and throw it in the garbage an

We don’t need to speculate about the possible winner in the game.

Sweet music caught and held him transfixed aainst the iron fence .

A bird that cannot fly is an anomaly.

If you look at the end of your nose,your eyes converge.

We have a duplicate key to the front door.

There were few peaceful epoches in the history of our country .

Hunger and suffering from cold had made the lost hikers gaunt.

The incessant barking of the dog kept him awake through the night.

Though the teacher asked a simple question about her parents,the little girl stood mute with embarrassment.

He was a passionte partisan of these people and had organized a Worker’s Union.

The parents of the sick boy scanned the doctor’s face for a sign of hope.

She scanned the newspaper in a few minutes.

He stabbed a piece of meat from the plate with his fork.

I tried to cook a nice dinner,but I’m afraid I’ve rather botched it .

Her new shoes chafed the skin on both her feet.

After a brisk moring widn dissipater the clouds,the sky was clear all day .

The foolish son dissipated his fater’s forturn by spending it on drinking and gambling .

The inscriptions on the ancient monuments have been effaced by time.

There was a glint in her eyes that showed she was angry.

Overtime work is often onerous,though it is well paid.

The girl did not move though the policeman iterated his command hat she go.

Most boys have a propensity of playing with machinery.

Mother singed chicken to get rid of hairs.

The little boy put on his father’s medals and strutted around the room.

There are many kinds of diseases that medical science is yet ot unravel.

He bellowed in pain when the hammer came down on his finger.

The horseback rider drew his cloak tightly around him in the rain.

His friendly behavior was a cloak for his evil intention.

The ministry was a vvery devout man and devoted his whold life to Christian mission work.

A man appeared at the castle gate in the guise of the woodcutter.

The power of a grain of wheat to grow into a plant remains latent if it is not planted.

He pawned his watch to byuy food until he could get a job.

When the cannon was fired the earth quaked under his feet.

Famine has often been the sequel of war.

After the ship sank, salvage of its argo was impossible.

The battle was won with so great a loss of soldiers that it was a virtual defeat.

He does things that are marvellous or apparently impossible,he is a wizard.

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