1 . 在交通高峰期乘坐公共交通是不明智的。 （sense的短语）
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2 . 短语选变填

go through     go over        make a detour       take advantage of       throw light on     due to in addition     make sense   off the coast          quite something        date from          adapt to

1. You’d better give reasons ____________ to your arguments.
2. Our Chinese civilization, ___________ thousands of years ago, remains uninterrupted.
3. How shameless of you _____________ such a poor man!
4. After ___________ such a disaster, they had to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.
5. A major accident is blocking the northbound carriageway of the M1. Drivers going north have to _____________.
6. Please ____________ these lessons before the final examination so that you can do a better job in the test.
7. There are hundreds of tiny islands ___________ of the European continent.
8. Jerry has stayed in China for two decades. It takes him time _____________ life in his own native country.
9. It was ____________ that man landed on the moon. It was really a giant leap for mankind.
10. Don’t give up. Your ongoing investigation will definitely ____________ the truth.

3 .
1. The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ___________ his notes.
2. It’s said that all the teachers and students ____________ the new computer lab for free in the near future.
3. Plastic bags and boxes which ___________ “white pollution” have become a serious problem which has caused a great concern among the public.
4. The board ___________ two foreigners and two Chinese all used English to communicate with the job hunters in the interview.
5. Teachers should encourage their students _____________ different opinions in group discussion, which helps to develop their critical thinking.
6. Her health ____________ under the pressure of working over the last two years.
7. His house ___________ last night but the strange thing was that the burglar alarm didn’t go off.
8. After ____________ my daughter from school, we drove to my sister’s home to attend her 10th wedding anniversary.
9. The teacher __________ the whole class into 6 small groups and assigned different tasks to them in her demonstration class.
10. It ____________ to plan so far ahead because a lot of things will have changed dramatically by next year.