This western restaurant is()to the one we went to last week.
If you want to know about programmes of next week, which channel will you choose?
A committee of four men and five women () to be appointed in this week’s meeting.
A:()often do you go to the cinema? B: I go to the cinema once a week
I would have gone to visit him in the hospital had it been at all possible, but I fully ______ occupied the whole of last week.
Practice 3
Your TV set broke down only one week after it was brought. Write a letter of complaint to the store where your TV set was bought.
1) to express what is wrong with your TV set
2) to make your request (change for a new one, or return the broken one... )
3) to urge the store to give an early reply
You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use “Wang Lin” instead. You do not need to write your address and the date.
How many days a week is the sports center open late?
The doctor suggested that the patient()in hospital for another week.
Practice 3
On his 10-day trip to Asia this week, President George W. Bush is likely to get a polite reception for his ambitious agenda. He wants to rally allies to the war on terror, the confrontation with North Korea and the expansion of transpacific trade. He’ll be asking Japan and China to allow their currencies to get stronger, so they will find it cheaper to buy more goods from struggling US manufacturers. Neither the Japanese nor the Chinese will say no outright, but they won’t say yes, either. Below the polite ambiguities, something disturbing is happening, at least from an American viewpoint.
For all its military power, political clout and economic might, America could be losing its influence in what is arguably the most dynamic region of the world. Big changes are happening in Asia, for which America’s policies are increasingly out of step. Washington’s preoccupations—-the mess in Iraq, the jobless recovery and the escalating fiscal deficit at home—are not Asia’s preoccupations. When Bush looks into the future, he sees an American Century with a troubled story line dominated by the fight against terror. When Asians look into the future, they see an Asian Century dominated by rising prosperity and the emergence of China, with terror a minor subplot.
Bob: What are you reading, Tom?
Tom:It’s this week’s New Scientist, why?
Bob:I was just wondering—______, but I’ve never actually read it myself. Is it aimed at real scientists or can ordinary people like me understand it?