Correct the following sentences by using expressions from the text. Then put a definition, a synonym, or translation of the corrected expression in the space provided.
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1. Please fill on this application form, giving your name, age, and address.
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2. Since I had given his offer plenty of thought before I accepted it, I feel comfortable on my decision. Correct form: Synonym:
3. In order to improve people's living standard, we should attach first importance on the development of the economy. Correct form: Translation:
4. Because we don't want to be too friendly with the Smiths, we politely turned off their invitation. Correct form: Synonym:
5. When he noticed my hesitation, he came on me and said: \John.\
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6. I don't know whether to accept this new job, and the company is
pressing me with a decision. Correct form: Definition:
7. Newspapers today are not entirely free to government control. Correct form: Definition:
8. During the summer holiday, many relatives came to Shanghai to see the sights. We were stuck by the unexpected visitors. Correct form: Translation:
9. Medical students in extended contact with junior doctors learn attitudes by example, from better or worse. Correct form: Definition:
10. At the age of twenty, he took charge over a large family business in his hometown after his father died. Correct form: Synonym:
11. A 23-year-old woman was found guilty for murder in the Higher Court today.
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12. The thought of being separated from all my friends for a whole year makes me ill in ease. Correct form: Definition:
13. She quarreled with him because he wanted to project his own thoughts and ideas in her. Correct form: Definition:
14. I want to convey children that reading is one of life's greatest pleasures.
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Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the Word Bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name, Bobby, is used both for boys and girls. Girls spell it \the end. For example, I often had a Jimmy, Johnny or Billy in my classes. In my second grade, I also had a Bobbie. In order not to __ us when she called our names, our teacher __ us the names \Boy\This caused me a lot of trouble on the playground. There, my friends __ me \name and my sex was the source of much laughter. The fact that they labeled me as a girl was very ___ . I had a tendency to ___ for my name by acting more like a boy than I might have otherwise. I threw more rocks and yelled louder than the sum of all of the other boys added together. The real \Girl\__ , acted more like a girl. When my
teacher __ she had made a mistake, she stopped calling us \and \ calling me \Girl\\ conceded contrast ceased conflict embarrassing confuse presumed assigned realized characteristic labeled peculiar reward conversely compensate
Read the following passage carefully and choose the best word or phrase to fill in each blank.
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What's in a name? Your fate could have been (1) different if you had been given a different name at your birth. Some of us (2) that our name does not necessarily fit and start using a different name (3) the one we were given. Many of us (4) use our middle name so we can be true to our parents, and at the same time be more confident. Some people who have changed their name (5) that their professional lives improved. They feel better about themselves so they are (6) to achieve more. But those who have changed their names are not just being overly sensitive. Names themselves (7) some information causing others to make judgments based solely (8) them. Here is an example: A magazine (9) to print a writer's name simply because the editor thought it suited a baseball player (10) an art critic. Another example: A woman at a party became (11) when she wanted to be introduced to a man she had declined because of his name. One study showed that teachers give different grades to the (12) essays written by boys with different names. (13), girls' popularity can be related to their names.
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