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Language focus

1. have 2. are 3. has 4. hasn’t 5. fears 6. noise/gets 7. experience 8. are

  Text weaver

1. The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other.

2. A New Jersey politician is hoping to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet, claiming that

civility must be mandatory in political debate.

3. Police say they have evidence that a fugitive Czech businessman tried to forge a promissory

note issued by the country!s ruling Social Democratic Party.

4. Most often we abreast when we are faced with something we don!t have any interest in.

5. If the decision makers aren!t keeping education as a priority, perhaps the polls ought to re

flect that by the voters who elect them.

6. There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer

deceive.

7. Each person is supposed to contribute two stories to the summer issue.

8. To solve this problem, you need to seek support from your subordinates.

 

Word player

1. Though living in the countryside, the old keeps uninterrupted (interrupt) contact with the world by reading newspapers every day.

2. This game should save her from boredom and will also relieve (relief) the pressure on you to keep her entertained.

3. Economists are working on the assumption (assume) of an interest rate cut.

4. I love my father. He is a man of integrity and great generosity (generous) of spirit.

5. You will be a perfectionist (perfection) since you refuse to accept anything that is not as good as it could possibly be.

6. The lengthy (length) meeting made everyone exhausted.

7. His name was finally omitted (omission) from the guest list.

8. Our reforms have brought vitality (vital) to our economy.

9. He said many more people would support him in the anonymity (anonymous)

10. You will turn yourself a victim of a cruel deception (deceive)

 

paraphrase

1. The more successful Congressmen know better about how to make full use of time. They can achieve fairly high productivity and efficiency at work, that means, they can get more things done within limited time.

2.

The amount of time one person spends on a project is not so important. The amount of time he/she spends on that project without being interrupted is more important because during the period all his/her attention is concentrated on the task.

3.

Trying one!s best to achieve excellence and perfection are different because to be excellent is quite possible, pleasant and good for health, while to be perfect is impossible, discouraging and harmful for health.

4.

But usually with so many useless and unwanted things around at work, people will feel hard to concentrate on what they are doing, then they will feel nervous, depressed, exhausted.

5.

The parents who do every household chore themselves without assigning them to others are doing something harmful not only to themselves but also even to their children because they will get frustrated and exhausted by the chores, which is also bad for satisfactory relationship

between parents and children.

6.

Yesterday passes by and will be gone for ever, that means, we can!t use the past time any longer. We can!t use the future time either because tomorrow is far away from us, which may be changeable and undependable consequently. Only today is what we have at hand now. We should treasure the present time we have and make full use of it.

 

translation

1.As a decision maker of project investment, his goal of investing project is to get benefits of investment. That is to say, to win maximum benefit by minimum investment.

2.

At present, we find ourselves immersed in useless stories about Michael Jackson, Beckham and Georgia!s "runaway bride#, yet we get little or no information about war and peace. Will the news our nation really needs be crowded out?

3.

As "social and ethical issues# becomes a recurring phrase in the community paying attention to nanotechnology research, we have a crucial question: what counts as a social and ethical issue?

4.

Mr. Brown is completely snowed under with so many requests that came in from new customers, and he won’t be able to talk with you about your case until next week.

5.

We pay for the textbooks, spend hours in the library doing research, and burn the midnight oil studying for tests and exams, so we have the right of giving our opinions about the materials we will spend so many hours studying?