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Directions: Read each of the following sentences, try to understand its meaning, and then use a different but adequate structure to restate the same meaning. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
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Paula doesn’ t need any lessons when it comes to office politics.
【正确答案】Paula is adept at people’ s connection in office.
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A mirror that has been glued back together will look unsightly and break again easily.
【正确答案】A broken mirror can never look like it used to be.
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Chilly gust of wind with a taste of rain in them had well-nigh dispeopled the street.
【正确答案】There had almost no people in the street with cold wind and a sign of rain.
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In rural and remote areas, transmission and distribution of energy generated from fossil fuels can be difficult and expensive.
【正确答案】In distant downtown areas, it is difficult and costly to transport and spread energy made by fossil fuels.
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Social science is a branch of intellectual inquiry that seeks to study humans and their endeavors in a systemic, orderly and dispassioned manner.
【正确答案】Social science is a branch of intellectual research and examination. It studies humans and their efforts in a systemic, well-prepared way.
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As some countries focus on finding immediate solutions to pressing economic challenges, environmental sustainability is taking a secondary position.
【正确答案】Finding quick solutions to economic challenges is the priority for some countries and they then will take environmental sustainability into account.
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I had never thought that pen and heart had so failed each other.
【正确答案】I had not known that I could not express my real heart by writing.
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Sitting still at home is the heavenly way, and going out is the way of world.
【正确答案】Stay at home is comfortable. But going outside you may see the world.
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Johnny alternated between elation when Celia talked with him and despair when she flirted with another man.
【正确答案】Johnny felt happy when Celia talked with him; he felt unhappy when Celia flirted with another man.
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Gerry, whose persistence has been known to wear down the resistance of many executives, refused to take no for an answer.
【正确答案】Gerry is stubborn and never let him fail of getting answers.
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