1 . 词组替换
1. If you will wait there for a second, my assistant will demonstrate the up-to-date machines in operation.
2. She has a low opinion of the suggestion that he may never return. He wants to give away all his modern possessions and go back to nature.
3. Then I realized that I wasn’t procrastinating from work. I was procrastinating from reading.
4. When you study in a foreign country, you will meet with new circumstances, environments, and predicaments.
5. He was not at all jealous of the interest with which Dorothea had looked up at Mr. Casaubon.
6. Luckily, this new study on sociological theories has helped explain the relation between identity and language use.
7. You shouldn’t pay any money until you get the contract in written form.
8. The fallout from the COVID-19 crisis is hitting ECCU economies hard, as tourist arrivals have stopped completely.
9. That’s the way history used to be- all powerful nations declined and were replaced by other empires.
10. The reform of teaching model will cause great changes in teaching procedures, so that it will have deep influence on educational ideas and theories.

2 . Directions: Fill in each blank with the missing words according to the text.
● However, Hua did receive the support of a     1    while he was at school.
● He loved maths and studied so hard that he managed to win a     2    .
● Then something terrible happened: because of a serious illness, his left leg became     3    .
● Despite this terrible setback, Hua continued to study on his own and     4    .
● Mentally, at least, most of us could     5    lists of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’.
● The same old favorites recur year in year out    6    .
● Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are     7    .
● If we remain     8    , it is only because we have so often experienced the frustration that     9    .
● We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we     10    our bad old ways.