Replace the underlined parts with words or phrases chosen from the following box. Make sure to keep the same meaning of the original sentences. Change the forms where necessary.a case in point indication (be)different from come to clue overnight unlike economy possess numerous be hard on go down launch on the rise incident out of style corresponding evidence at one’s best anyway link think of …as on the other hand1. It is an encouraging sign that people's purchasing power is rising.2. We have made many attempts to solve the problem, but so far our efforts have been unsuccessful.3. Last month a city-wide campaign was started to dissuade people from smoking.4. All those who attempt to turn back the wheel of history will ruin themselves in the end.5. Social customs are not the same as what they used to be fifty years ago.6. Prices of eggs usually drop in the spring when they are more plentiful.7. There is little sense in treating the child so severely. After all he is too young to know that he was doing wrong.8. Frequent sleeplessness may be a sign of some psychological or physical problem.9. While it may be more convenient to own a car, it is also expensive and troublesome at times.10. Where there is a will, there is a way. Your eventual success in the experiment is a very good example.
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- As we all know , the same gestures may have different __ which vary from one culture to another.
- All people who come from the same country will have the same culture.
- 1. I am one of the(1) of Designing Your Life: How to Live a Well-lived Joyful Life. That’s (2) the class we Stanford teachers called Designing Your Life. 2. So one of the biggest(3) in the class is the odyssey plan. People (4) three completely different plans for their life. 3. And he had one(5) where he just described the period of time between about 20 and 35 as your odyssey years, the years when you discover and (6) who you gonna be, you know, as or for one grown-up. 4. So we use the phrase, odyssey years, to describe(7) the ten years between about 22 and 32, or 20 to 35 that ten-to-fifteen-year period. 5. It is really a (8) time in any young person’s life. And we like the idea of an odyssey. It is sort of journey, you know, a mystical journey through all these(9) . 6. And that is when we have, you know, more stages in our life, so we have more time to do this kind of(10) . So it’s really a(11) time in a young person’s life.
- Complete each of the following statements with words or phrases from the passage.1) The time for people to think more about showing thanks is ________________.2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers.3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office.4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them.5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them.6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made. Complete each of the following statements with words or phrases from the passage.1) The time for people to think more about showing thanks is ________________.2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers.3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office.4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them.5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them.6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made. Complete each of the following statements with words or phrases from the passage. 1) The time for people to think more about showing thanks is ________________.2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers.3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office.4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them.5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them.6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made. 1) The time for people to think more about showing thanks is ________________.2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers.3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office.4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them.5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them.6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made. 2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers.3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office.4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them.5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them.6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made. 2) It is now very common for people to ________________ online their thanks to the volunteers. 3) What may give the volunteers a sense of belonging (归属感) is to hold ________ in the office. 4) Sending out Thanksgiving cards could let the volunteers know that people are ________ to them. 5) The volunteers working in the library seemed to ________________ the staffs silent way to________________ them. 6) Karol draws a hand pat on a piece of paper and ________________ some warm words on it to show her appreciation for all the hard work and effort the volunteers have made._
- Fill in each of the blanks in the following sentences with a word from the box. Change the form where necessary.stubbornresistantheadstrong1. His opponents viewed him as _______, dogmatic, and inflexible.2. The body may be less _______ if it is cold.3. He’s young, very _______, but he’s a good man underneath.