The same qualities that make people good house guests make them good hospital patients. Good house guests can expect a reasonable amount of service and effort on their behalf, and hospital patients can also. Guests have to adjust to what is for them a change, and certainly hospital patients must do the same. No one appreciates a complaining, unpleasant, unappreciative house guest, and the hospital staff is no exception. House guests who expect vast changes to be made for their benefit are not popular for long. Certainly nurses and other personnel with their routines feel the same way about patients in their care. Just as house guests must make adjustments to enjoy their visits, so patients must make adjustments to make their stays reasonably pleasant and satisfying under the circumstances.
1.Read the following sentences and indicate if they are sentences of COMPARISON or CONTRAST.
①Though both are forms of humor, comedy is different from satire.
②In 2050 the world will surely be different form what it is today.
③Fashions in furniture change just as clothing fashions do.
④Buying a car requires as much skill as selling one.
⑤Badminton is as important a sport in Indonesia as football is in the United States.
⑥There is more hard work in writing than in physical labor.
⑦Ballet is a more exhausting art than gymnastics.
⑧“Friendship”, like “love”, is often discussed but seldom understood.
2. Write statements of contrast to fit the following patterns(you may need a word or a phrase to complete the sentence).
①TV and newspapers are____in many ways even though their aims may be the same.
②Sound travels____through air than water.
③Before 1880 many people died of smallpox; ____, the percentage of deaths from smallpox is small today.
④Some children grow___ than other children because of nutritional differences.
⑤____ to living on the farm, living in the city is an intense struggle to survive in a concrete wasteland.
Per capita earnings in Japan _____ those in South Korea.
3. Write statements of comparison to fit the following patterns(you may need a word or a phrase to complete the sentence).
①The development of transportation and the development of communications____in many ways.
②Anshan in the Northeast of China and Panzhihua in the Southwest are ____steel centers.
③Despite centuries of change, human beings and their primitive ancestors have many traits____.
④___ badminton ____table tennis requires a large playing area.
⑤Although the last days of the Roman Empire may at first appear very different from those of the United States today, there are ominous____ .
