1. Taiwan is the island where China endures.
2. There is no getting along with him.
3. He is not above asking questions.
4. Don't give up because it is difficult.
5. He saves what little he earns.
6. I could feel age catching up with me.
7. John is an avid（渴望的、热心的） reader.
8. He was thoughtful to bring the flowers.
9. She has excellent use of her right arm.
10. The world's powerful countries are becoming rich off Latin American poverty.
11. John has a very low threshold of humor in the morning.
12. The sublime is in a grain of dust.
13. It's a big job getting a nice dinner together on such a short notice.
14. Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you.
15. This failure was the making of him.
16. Where did you miss your book?
17. If you brave a greeting in your Chinese,you may hear just a wee（很少的、微小的） giggle at the sounds you have made that are neither Chinese nor English.
18. She was dressed in form-fitting（紧贴合身的） pants and blue sweater,which showed off her figure to good advantage.
19. This is another proof of the tragic incapacity of our times to make peace.
20. We must increase the potentialities of recycling used materials.
21. The secrecy surrounding these meetings leaves the way wide open for speculation.
22. She is remembered for her quiet charm as much as for her professional excellence.
23. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose：a policeman,testifying in a homicide case,refers to “the alleged victim.”
24. Novelist Anne Roiphe,an otherwise intelligent writer,recently referred in all seriousness to her daughter’s playing“cowpersons and Indians”…history amended for ideology.
25. When language is reduced,so is civilization.George Orwell understood that “the smaller the area of choice of words,the smaller the temptation to take thought.”
26. In the feeble attempt at comic relief,I said that I would rather die than appear improperly dressed and run outside.
27. Much of the accident-prone flier’s behavior consists of acting out the role of the archetypal ‘hot pilot’,fostered by movies,novels and television.
28. A number of western companies have been placed on the Saudi black list for submitting inflated bids on government tenders.The blacklisted firms will be banned from bidding on future government contracts.
29. He broke his fall off a stage somewhat by grabbing a curtain backdrop.
30. The government drew back,saying it would want to thoroughly canvass the population on the matter before going forward.
31. The potato soon caught on as a staple on even royal tables.
32. Take the same precautions on Taiwan beaches as you would on American beaches—sun briefly on your first visits,use suntan lotion liberally（大量地）.
33. It is superfluous to elaborate on the excellence and variety of Chinese cuisine.
34. The headmaster imposed the ban because somebody smeared butter on a notice board and the culprit failed to own up.
35. He is a man with an extraordinary sense of political timing and ability to gauge the tide of public sentiment.
36. He is very defensive about being hit in the face.
37. To use a colloquialism：just what makes ROC tick？
38. Although it's impossible to say what portion of Tokyo's male population engages in such antics,I can testify to one or two first-hand experiences of it.
39.I will now ask Mr.Smith to get up and take a bow,and I hope you will give him the hand he deserves.
40.Passengers please come forward to the departure area for your exit formalities.
41.If you believe reincarnation（投胎转世）,what would you like to come back as?
42.Bela,who trains the girls in the uneven bars,has good rapport（关系、友好关系、和睦） with his charges,treating them with a warm firmness.
43.Wordsworth alleges against science its absorption in abstractions.his consistent theme is that the important facts of nature elude（困惑, 使迷离） the scientific method.
44.Philosophy is not one among the sciences with its own scheme of abstractions which it works away at perfecting and improving.It is the survey of sciences,with the special object of their harmony and of their completion.
45.Schmidt's tougher stance came under（遭受、受到） conservative opposition pressure in the heat of a hard campaign for Oct.1 national election.
46.He had already started on two more script ideas that she hopes to direct.
47.The small table overturning as he fell to the carpet helped bring her out of the shock.
48. Look straight down at a house plant on the floor often makes it appear tall,and it really might not be.
49.Where a railway crosses a navigable water way, and it is impossible to lift the line high enough for vessels to pass underneath without interception, a bridge must be built which is capable of being opened in order to allow the river or canal traffic to pass.
50.The sight of a tailor-shop gave me a sharp longing to shed my rags, and to clothe myself decently once more.
（本测试共50题，每题2分，满分100分。要求学员独立完成，并记录完成全部习题所需时间。）
