...thanked his
student very much for the sweet water. The
young man went home with a happy heart.After
the student left,the
teacher let (another/other)student
taste the water. He spit it out,saying it
was awful.Apparently,it was no
longer fresh because ofthe old leather container.He
...
... from extremely courageous to not courageous at all. Sometimes the problem with grammar books (especially the most 'trustworthy' ones) is that they don't always reflect actual contemporary usage ofthe language! Often with English there is a huge difference between what is grammatically ...
...ng with lawmakers, Trump said the shutdown would last for “as long as it takes” as he pushes for wall money as part ofany legislation to reopen agencies shuttered whentheir funding lapsed on Dec. 有以下问题:这里的as long as引导时间状语从句?那么为什么会跟在last ...
...ho said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s aweful .”Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all 52 flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance ofthe force that ...
...h the kids while she was waiting for the car service.Iasked my husband to take over cooking dinner and then started my car.
As I was driving to my destination, fog formed and thickened. After picking up
the kids, I had to drive in thick fog.The children were my responsibility and I couldn't help bu...
..., of course, a purely social function. The Stricklands "owed" dinners to anumberof persons, whom they took no interest in, and so had asked them; these persons had accepted. Why? To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, becaus...
...ht a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble
with cars and their owners. When he returns home at night, he always finds that someone has parked a car outside his gate.
Because of this, he has not been able to get his own car into his garage even
once. Jasper has put up ...
...吗?(2019全国卷Ⅰ听力)I
didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this extra weight any more. 我不想再带着这么多“赘肉”(指过度肥胖)度过余生。(2017天津卷完形)Because ofall this
extra time, there was no sense of urgency to do my school work immediately. ...
.... They tried to look as little like authors as possible. They wished to be taken for men ofthe world, and could have passed anywhere for the managing clerks ofa city firm. They always seemed a little tired. I had never known writers before, and I found them very strange, but I do not think they ev...
...no cottages and no church spire -- only a lake. I
decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. So I drove back to
the town and began to retrace the route, taking frequent glances at the map. I
landed up at the same corner. The curious thing was that the lake was not
marked on the map. I...