2011TEM8 Remedial Exerci
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1.If you are an energetic man with strong views as to the right way of doing the job with which
you are concerned, you find yourlf invariably under the orders of some big man at the top who is elderly, weary and cynical.
2.An individual human existence should be like a river---small at first, narrowly
contained with its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
3.The isolation of the rural world becau of distance and the lack of transport
facilities are compounded by the paucity of the information media.
4.Y ou may find it difficult to understand the thought of Hume, and if you have no
philosophical training its implications will doubtless escape you.
5. Nature ldom provides me with the word, the turn of phra, that is appropriate
without being far-fetched or commonplace.
5.They were，in fact, very fine ladies not deficient in good humor when they were
plead, nor in the power of being agreeable when they cho it; but proud and conceited.
6.At the very hour of dinner, when my stomach clamored for food, I have been
stopped by the sight of a volume so long coveted, and marked at so advantageous
a price, that I could not let it go: yet to buy it meant pangs of famine.
7.The growing awareness by millions of Africans of the extremely poor and
awkward living conditions has prompted them to take resolute measures and create new one.
9. Quick and decided in her ways, Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and telling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance incread, so did their satisfaction in each other.
10. For students of composition, an awareness that rhetorical patterns differ from one culture to
another can help them become more quickly proficient in a writing pattern that is not native to them.
11. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the
very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
12. New Y ork has the poorest millionaires, the smallest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the
plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.
13. If a man empties his pur into his head, no man can take it away from him, and an investment
in knowledge always pays the best interest.
14. For example, they do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he gown up under more favorable circumstances.
15. There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work
in general or to the rearch appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry.
16. But just as all nations can benefit from the promi of this new world, no nation is immune to
its perils. We all have a stake in building peace and prosperity, and in confronting threats that respects no borders---terrorism and drug trafficking, dia and environmental destruction.
17. It ems to me that time is ripe for the Department of Employment and the Department of
Education to get together with universities and produce a revid educational system that will make a more economic u of the wealth of talent, application and industry currently being wasted on diplomas and degrees that no one wants to know about.
18. The most nsible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the word, who argue from what they e and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
19. We have a feeling in retrospect, amounting to a practical belief, that we could have left undone
the things that we have done, and that we could have done the things that we ought to have done and did not do, and we accu or el excu ourlves accordingly.
20. The asrtion that it was difficult, if not impossible, for a people to enjoy its basic rights unless
it was able to determine freely its political status and to ensure freely its economic, social and cultural development was now scarcely contested.
21. She was the product of the fancy, the feeling, the innate affection of the untutored but poetic
mind of her mother combined with the gravity and poi which were characteristic of her father.
22. The men and women throughout the world who think that a living future is preferable to a
dead world of rocks and derts will have to ri and demand, in tones so loud that they cannot be ignored, that common n, humanity, and the dictates of that moral law which Mr. Dulles believes that he respects, should guide our troubled era into that happiness which only its ow n folly is preventing.
23. His weariness and the increasing heat determined him to sit down in the first convenient shade.
24. Serious examination of the extent and quality of pre-college science teaching made recently
has led to programs of reform and improvement that already have had profound impact on all aspects of elementary and condary science education.
25. The establishment of a solid manufacturing and mining has kept Victoria’s unemployment rate
the lowest in the country.
26. A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to
balance their heads was apparent in them.
27. The ocean covers three quarters of the earth’s surface, produces 90% of its life-support oxygen,
and is the driving force behind the entire weather system.
28. It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements
in, and parts of, the United States---a recognition of the old permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer.
29. Nowhere is the clash between development and environment more visible than in China,
where the world’s population faces pollution, deforestation and acid rain on a large scale.
30. A gulf had opened between them over which they looked at each other with eyes that were on
either side a declaration of the deception suffered.
31. I should want not merely to e the outline of her face, so that I could cherish it in my memory,
but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education.
32. My assistant, who had carefully read through the instruction before doing the experiment,
could not obtain satisfactory results, becau he followed them mechanically.
33. An organization is a machine that occasionally breaks down, and requires the rvices of an
external expert to fix it. When that happens, it needs to be retooled to become more efficient and may even require periodic reengineering in order to remain “cutting edge”.
34. The problem is that in the last generation or so we’ve come to assume that women should be
able, and should want, to do everything that by tradition men have done and at the same time as pretty well everything that by tradition women have done.
35. A great number of graduate students were driven into the intellectual slum when in the United
States the intellectual poor became the classic poor, the poor under the rather romantic gui of the Beat Generation, a real phenomenon in the late fifties.
36. The snow falls on every wood and field, and no crevice is forgotten: by the river and the pond,
on the hill and in the valley.
37. In the same village, and in one of the very hous (which, to tell you the preci truth, was
sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet
a province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow of the name Rip V an Winkle.
38. The new obrvational capabilities would result in simply a mass of details were it not for the
fact that theoretical understanding has reached the stage at which it is becoming possible to indicate the kind of measurement required for reliable weather forecasting.
39. The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the rious moment
when his father placed him at the entrance of the two roads---one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, covered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs; the other leading to
a deep, dark cave, which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils
and poisonous snakes hisd and crawled.
