Unit1
1. The professor might probably have delivered his lecture to the empty classroom in
the absence of his solitary student.
2. The present educational system has been under attack from the public, who have
begun to realize the harm the system has done to students.
3. The professor told those seniors that he would take attendance every time because
attendance at this course was compulsory.
4. I’d love to go to your housewarming party, but I’m sorry I can’t make it because
I’ve got a stack of things to d o.
5. Youths who dropped out of middle school can resume their studies at night school
or through television and correspondence courses.
6. She didn’t like the famous writer’s lecture, but she stuck it out to get the writer’s
autograph after the lecture.
7. I was disappointed at the impersonality of the lecture system, but eventually I grew
resigned to the system and waited patiently to become a junior.
8. We have to admit that the lecture system insulates a teacher from students’ naive
questions, which could have triggered a line of useful thought.
9. I don’t agree with those critics’ opinions. Your conclusions are far from worthless;
they make a good deal of sense to me.
10. For the sake of the students, they should be told on the first class about the
objective and content of the course and the requirements to pass the course.
Unit2
1Every nook and corner of the region would be provided with electricity in five years. This was the pledge that the minister of electricity had taken two years ago. 2In order to do field work at different places, he moved four times last year, though each time he did it with an ill grace.
3Before leaving this disordered, drug-ridden small town, he gathered together in one place all his valuable possessions and introduced some semblance of order among them.
4Her family was poor when she was a child. The things that mattered a great deal to her were very few. Therefore, every toy she had played with could evoke a rush of memories.
5For an hour, policemen threaded their way through the crowded buildings, looking for an elusive gunman who had shot five people.
6For many people, traveling or staying away from home for some time is an effective antidote to the humdrum activities of everyday life.
7Women today enjoy a freer, more independent position than ever before, and are accordingly less and less willing to submit to the tyranny of their husbands.
8Angina pectoris is often a prelude to a heart attack and requires special treatment, primarily with drugs.
9We decide to hollow out the great logs so that more men could sit inside them and ride in them down the river.
