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1. I miss the days when we sang the patriotic songs together.

2. It took the troops several hours to quell the unrest.

3. Having that famous architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work, he

feels quite relieved.

4. He was quite annoyed by the persistent rain.

5. Sometimes he would sneak out of the dormitory building late at night to play computer

games in the net bars.

6. Being a conservative, Mr. Brown advocates fewer government controls on business.

7. The government promised to intensify its efforts to secure the release of the hostage.

8. Lights spangled, the night skyline.

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Because of their failure in preventing the songs about sex and drug use from being broadcasted

on radio, some parents! groups have been trying to press recording companies to rate and label the recordings they produce just as film companies do to the movies they produce at present so that children might be kept away from such recordings with sex and drug use content.

 

Everyone who listened to popular music in the 1980s would think that drugs played a very important role in many people!s lives.

 

Such messages carried by the background music go into our mind, become one important part of our beliefs without being noticed and play an important role in our communication with others in the same way that today!s music functions for people!s communication nowadays.

 

This music is important partly because it is not to the liking of older people, and partly because showing one!s love to such music will prove that you are connected to and belong to your own younger generation.

 

Before boys become mature, girls would usually admire young teenage singers instead of actual boys, but when boys are the same mature as girls, girls would like to admire actual boys and develop their relationship as boyfriend or girlfriend

 

Translation

 

Bluetooth headsets have a countless number of practical applications for drivers, business people,

however, they remain unpopular with younger cell phone users because the

younger users believe that Bluetooth headsets look stupid and make them look as if they’re talking to themselves.

 

A toxic chemical leak was reported to have taken place on Sunday in south China!s Guangdong Province. No casualties arose from that accident according to local environment protection  authorities.

 

The purpose of foreign language teaching is not only to train students to be able to listen,speak, read and write, but also to have social and cultural knowledge, so cultural factors should be involved in foreign language teaching. (exercise supervision).

 

China&s President Hu Jintao delivered a speech during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit"emphasizing that China has great potential to contribute to world peace.