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7. This dialogue window pops up in my game every five seconds! How do I disable it?
8. Life is like a journey with no known destination.
9. No one can finish all the tasks alone. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. We can all benefit from cooperation.
10. Manchester United, dubbed the Red Devils, is a top football team in England.
11. The police officer turned to the crowd and shouted, “Come on. You need to get out of here. No lingering around the crime scene.” 12. The flower show is so crowded that there is never an ideal spot for taking pictures no matter how you position yourself.
13. Our mutual friend John has got a rare ability to memorize facts and figures.
14. John stretched out an arm from bed to pick up his phone. Sleepily he asked, “Who is it?”
15. An advance team was sent to the UK to make preparations for President Xi Jinping’s visit. 1.2
1. for instance 2. was flooded with 3. destined to 4. reluctant
5. pull them apart 6. stick to 7. pleaded with 8. As a result
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1.3
1. No flowers grew here. No humans ever came. Only the bare grey sand stretched out towards/to the roaring sea.
2. As a Harry Potter fan, Emily felt obligated to visit the Elephant House, the café shop in Edinburgh where J. K. Rowling started writing the series.
3. The saying “Students must do the boring stuff before they can do the interesting stuff” can be roughly translated as “Students must memorize before they can be allowed to think.”
4. According to The Odyssey, Odysseus was the only human being to hear the alluring song of the Sirens and live to tell of it.
5. At first, she pleaded with the doctors to save/not to cut off her son’s arm, but the doctor said there was no choice.
2. Collocation
1. Many Chinese tourists are disappointed to find shops in Europe
closed on weekends.
2. Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, is content to live a quiet life in rural France.
3. I am sorry to say that, despite the efforts of our care team, the patient is going from bad to worse.
4. Because of pollution, water here is no longer fit to drink.
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5. The old lady impressed me as someone hard to deal with. 6. This sofa is comfortable to sit on. I’ll take it.
3. Sentence Patterns
1. What better way to remember our beloved daughter than to set up/setting up a scholarship in her name?
2. What better way to start off the new year than to draw up/drawing up a list of goals to be attained in it?
3. Yes, listing Americans’ favorite foods may depend a lot on whom you ask, but one thing is sure: The United States owes many of its favorite dishes, or the ideas for these foods, to the rest of the world.
4. Yes, Claire is young, but she is very good at attending to difficult customers.
5. Yes, he talked like a man of sense, but his action was that of a fool.
4. Comprehensive Practice 4.1 Cloze
What would you do if a chance to study abroad popped up? Would you hesitate or would you grab it straight away? Your answer may well depend on the destination on offer. For instance, studying at Cambridge may
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well seem more alluring than studying at a less well-known university. And then, of course, there is the program on offer to take into consideration. Do you yearn to explore subjects totally new to you or are you reluctant to stray from areas in which you feel secure? In making the choice you may just have to rely on your instinct about what will suit you best. 4.2 Translation
1. I grabbed my baby from the tiger before I had time to feel afraid. I guess it was a mother’s natural instinct.
2. Modern tourists yearn for mysterious places like Tibet. You should go there before it is flooded with visitors.
3. Now that my daughter can crawl, there is not a spot in the house she hasn’t reached. I’m just tired of picking up toys constantly after her.
4. I felt pulled apart of late by work and taking care of my sick child. Can I postpone turning in the business plan?
5. I don’t mean to be provocative, but I do think it’s better for our company to split into two.
6. The US government feels obligated to prefer US-made products, but it’s still possible for a foreign company to be its supplier. For instance, if a product is not made in the US, then the US government will buy abroad.
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