In the future many large corporations will be wiped out and millions of jobs will be lost.

A nuclear station may take risk going off due to unexpected incidents.

Those companies were closed due to some seriously financial problems.

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He is over the moon about his examination result.

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Her style of dress accentuated her extreme slenderness.

OPPOSITE

If you say bad things about the person who give a job you bite the hand that feeds you.

OPPOSITE

When he passes the entrance exam, his parents will be walking on air.

OPPOSITE

We run a very tight ship here, and we expect all our employees to be at their desks by 8 o'clock and take good care of their own business.

Ha Noi is one of the most populous cities in Viet Nam.

Smoking is strickly forbidden in that city.

FIND THE CLOSEST MEANING

He put on a thick coat and went out.

We are waiting for ages and you never showed up!

We are waiting for ages and you never showed up!

FIND THE CLOSEST MEANING

He put on a thick coat and went out.

I love the people in my village. They are so kind and hospitable.

CLOSEST: I just want to stay at home and watch TV and take it easy.

CLOSEST: The meteorologist says on TV that it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow.

CLOSEST: In the end, her neighbor decided to speak his mind.

CLOSEST: When I mentioned the party, he was all ears.

CLOSEST: The notice should be put in the most conspicuous place so that all students can be

well-informed.

CLOSEST: I prefer to talk to people face to face, rather than to talk on the phone.

OPPOSITE: Their migration may be postponed if fog, clouds, or rain hides the stars

OPPOSITE: Primary education in the United States is compulsory.

OPPOSITE: On November 25^th, 1872, something dreadful happened on board of the brigantine Mary Celeste, causing all crew members to hastily abandon the trip.

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Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous

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He didn’t bat an eyelid when he realized he failed the exam again.

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The young are now far more materialistic than their precedents years ago.

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He is over the moon about his examination result.

CLOSEST: The meteorologist says on TV that it is supposed to rain all day tomorrow.

CLOSEST: In the end, her neighbor decided to speak his mind.

CLOSEST: When I mentioned the party, he was all ears.

CLOSEST: I prefer to talk to people face to face, rather than to talk on the phone.

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Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous

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My father always kept us on a tight rein.

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I think we have solved this problem once and for all.

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Roget’s Thesaurus, a collection of English words and phrases, was originally arranged by the ideas they express rather than by alphabetical order.

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He didn’t bat an eyelid when he realized he failed the exam again.

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I spent my summer holiday in Japan and had a whale of a time.

They were very depressed because their sickness became worse.

My cousin is too frustrated to do the test because he got troubles in his work

My parents are delighted that I passed the final exam.

Our parents always expect us to get good grades and we don’t want to disappoint them.

Students have been studying for 3 periods, so they want to take a break.

She’s already fully booked for the weekend with her math class and English class.

Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the lyrics. By contrast, in musical theatre an actor's dramatic performance is primary, and the music plays a lesser role. The drama in opera is presented using the primary elements of theatre such as scenery, costumes, and acting. However, the words of the opera, or libretto, are sung rather than spoken. The singers are accompanied by a musical ensemble ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic orchestra.

1. It is pointed out in the reading that opera ----.

Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plough in the nineteenth century. By the 1930's, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.

As we understand from the reading, today, soil erosion in America ----.

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

According to the passage, when the Estonia sank, ----.

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

It is clear from the passage that the survivors of the accident ----.

Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.

One can understand from the reading that ----.