Words in Action
1.
1) When the father learned about his son’s school performance, he beamed with satisfaction.
2) How do people celebrate New Year’s Day in your country?
3) What are you complaining about? You have already got everything you want.
4) There were 24 people enrolled in the French class.
5) The children panicked when they saw the serious look on the teacher’s face.
6) When I turned off the TV, all my three kids protested.
7) He is too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
8) It was so cold in the air-conditioned room that Jane had to wrap herself in a blanket.
9) George is very ambitious about his future though he is just a teenager.
10) My son is very good at figures, and he plans to take up Mathematics as his major.
11) He got very frustrated when he learned that he had failed the exam again.
12) Being a very possessive father, he felt very unhappy when he learned his daughter was going to get married.
13) How can you keep your children at home for the whole week? Of course, they will get restless.
2.
1) create
2) conflict
3) involved
4) overcame
5) have survived
6) attend
7) frowned
8) wander
9) guilty
10) sustained
11) survey
12) awkward
13) recall
14) terrified
15) insurance
16) Adapting
3.
1) was sick of
2) choking back
3) Compared with
4) settled into
5) would give anything
6) in the midst of
7) in his own right
8) on my own
9) fit in with
10) grew apart from
11) No wonder
12) staying up
13) was annoyed with
14) was scared of
15) in trouble
16) For instance
TRANSLATION
1.
1) Many teachers frowned on this practice.
2) An old man glared at me when I was trying to cut across the lawn.
3) When I mentioned my father, she showed a smile of recognition on her face.
4) My firstborn was quite obedient, whereas my younger child was very stubborn. I can still recall now how the younger child insisted on going abroad to study after he finished his secondary school.
5) Countries in South East Asia sustained great losses when the tsunami struck the area.
6) Every time the mother tries to compare the younger brother with his elder brother, the younger one will protest.
7) He found himself unable to fit in with his classmates when he first came to this school.
8) The fury on her face terrified me. I dared not say no to her again.
9) No wonder you ended up in trouble. You never followed your parents’ advice.
10) It took him two years to adapt to the new environment.