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... the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others.1. A. laughed B. stopped C. washed D. decided 2. A. books B. exams C. summers D. spends3. A. obliged B. determined C. believed ... C. kidding D. verbal4. Our parents _________hands to give us a nice house and a happy homeA. wave B. shake C. join D. take5. My father has an older sister . We haven’t seen her ______ twenty ... English exercise , he played games on computer with his friends. A. had finished B. finished C. was finishing D. has finished 8. Last year , he _______an international exam on Maths but he failed...
... humans to shape their destiny.Change is expected in the form of ‘progress’ – ever onward, ever upward, ever outward.Nation states provide new unifi ed basis for identity and hence a new understanding ... staff and rolling stock along the newly built railway lines. But it also allowed information to be disseminated quickly and more widely in ways that were liberating and empowering to ordinary ... in many ways, just begun. New communi-cations media are changing the social, economic and political structure of societies across the world.In 1997, when The Future of English? was published,...
... a matter of speculation. For the spread of English, the aftermath of WorldWar II was decisive. American influence was extendedaround the world. As George Steiner has observed:English acted ... 1970s, and 1980s, so the wave of global teenagerswill be a factor dwarfing other demographic factors inscenarios starting from 1990, through the next fifty years orso. (Schwartz, 1996, pp. 120–1)In ... shiftsduring the following 15years. This study was one ofthe earliest to forecast atrend away from valuesbased on ‘economicefficiency’ towards thosebased on ‘social justice’ – atrend which...
... part of a political movement, in them I was tryingto express what I thought. I was saying: You can do what you want about the David Rabe Blinded in the war, he comes back to a family that is ... TonyAward. Together with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,however,itserved to place David Rabe at the centre of attention. It was also therecipient of a Tony Award to add to those awards ... experience. The familywant to use clichés. David wants to use poetry. The clichés are reductiveand poetry is expansive’ (Savran, In Their Own Words,p.).The war itself, of course, was fought on the...
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... Francis become interested in language? Sixty years ago, a young David Francis joined the U.S. Army to ght in World War II. He was a Native Passamaquoddy speaker with little experience speaking ... David Francis David Francis may be a quiet man, but he certainly has a lot to say—and he can say it in ... nd him behind his computer at the Wapohnahki Museum and Resource Center at Sipayik, where he works daily editing the dictionary. Meet Madonna Soctomah and David Francis 2...
... didn't come. I waited and waited, but she didn't come. 22 At eleven o'clock we arrived in Santander. I wanted to stop the boat: I wanted to stop the holiday; I wanted to go back ... quiet. I went in and had a coffee in the cafe, but I didn't want to eat. All the time I wanted to see her. I wanted her to walk into the cafe and come across to my table and sit down with ... 17 Mark didn't want to go. He didn't want to eat or dance or talk and laugh. He wanted to sit quietly and think about the good-looking girl on the boat. Where was she now? But Dave...
... stereo and short-range motion tracking, but the approachwas later extended to more difficult problems. Zhang et al. (1995) showed that it was possi-ble to match Harris corners over a large image ... and size of thedescriptor were varied. The graph was generated for a viewpoint transformation in which aplanar surface is tilted by 50 degrees away from the viewer and 4% image noise is added.This ... aerial photographs, and industrial images (the image domainwas found to have almost no influence on any of the results). Each image was then subject to arange of transformations, including rotation,...