Paraphrase the following sentences using the Essential vocabulary.

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A. 1. Ancient literature uses fictional people to illustrate moral dilemmas. 2. Bright colours and bold strokes are typical to his early paintings. 3. A candidate's combination of qualities and qualifications are more important than past experience. 4. According to some scientists, global warming poses a danger to the survival of the whole human race. 5. The danger of inflation and high interest rates led to a wage freeze. 6. There was no anger, no pleading, no words expressing intention to harm. 7. The price of crude oil could fall even further.8. The passengers were rescued from the boat before it went to the bottom. 9. He sat down to his couch and covered his ears with his hands. 10. A lack of trust in the parents can undermine the child's feeling of security at home. 11. The chairman's speech gave us a clear understanding of company's direction. 12. A public figure can't afford to be too easily offended by criticism. 13. She looked carefully around and then walked away from the house. 14. Statistics should be treated with care. 15. Save your work often as a safety measure against computer failure.

B. 1. These glasses keep falling down my nose. 2. He opened the book at the place marked by a piece of paper and began to read. 3. I quickly slipped on what clothes I could find about – some of my own, and some of George's and Harris's. 4. By nine o'clock of that evening snow lay deep in the streets and the weather had become very cold. 5. She began to feel the unpleasantly sharp taste of the situation. 6. The medicine had a sour aftertaste. 7. Their complaints have finally encouraged him into action. 8. When the butter has melted, the chef mixed in the soy sauce and ginger. 9. The crowd began to move slightly as the band walked on stage. 10. Tom's leather-soled shoes constantly slipped so that it seemed many times he would fall and hurt himself. 11. A bomb exploded at the embassy, causing physical harm to several people. 12. Our insurance provides cover in the case of illness or harm. 13. We are not going to indulge in any politics of vengeance.14. As a matter of fact he was feeling worse – grim, revengeful. 15. Fearing payback attacks, the government has sealed off the borders.

5. Explain or comment on the following sentences:

A. 1. I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation. 2. Such an argument asserts that realist characters can somehow break free of the context in which they are created. 3. Education is no less and no more a part of the real world than any other activity, just as mountains are as characteristic of the physical world as are plains, lakes and deserts. 4. Scientists characterize the humanities as uncertain, vague and irrelevant. 5. She claims she received anonymous death threats after she gave evidence in the trial. 6. She is prepared to carry out her threat to resign. 7. With nothing more threatening about him, it appeared, than a leather apron and a dirty face. 8. Birkin, as he drove, felt a creeping of the spine, as if somebody was threatening his neck. 9. Even at this distance of time my heart sinks, my courage fails me, at the critical stage in my narrative which I have now reached. 10. This has been my motive, my fair cousin, and I flatter myself it will not sink me in your esteem. 11. The moon sloped down the sky and sank at last. 12. The lake was sunk to quarter size, it had horrible raw banks of clay, that smelled of raw rottenish water. 13 And the violent striking of blood in his chest was sinking quieter, allowing his mind to come back. 14. You are probably the horridest one of all those horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, not because you care a bit about me, but from a sense of Duty. 15. That which worried Jennie most, and there were many things which weighed upon her sensitive soul, was the outcome of her own life. 16. She could not feel the emotion that expresses itself in tears--only a dull ache, a numbness which seemed to make her insensible to pain. 17. She feverishly thought that this time he was being very cautious about his feelings for her. 18. Before going to the hotel Mrs. Gerhardt had cautioned George that he must bring enough coal from the yards to last over Christmas day. 19. They take the usual precautions - irregular schedules, irregular routes, and they have armed escorts everywhere they go. 20. A man opened cautiously one of the lower windows of the Land Office, crept out with great circumspection and disappeared in the shadows.

B. 1. A glance up and down the passage having apparently satisfied him, he slipped out and was gone. 2. I was sauntering on the river-bank with a girl named something that has slipped my mind, when there was a sound of barking and a large, hefty dog came galloping up. 3. They were determined to confront the English Heritage inspector, but it soon became clear he'd given them the slip. 4. Chalmers went as far as the door with him and slipped some bills into his hand. 5. I have slipped into money difficulties which I can see no way out of, unless someone who trusts me will advance me a sum without other security. 6. The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has seemed so hard and wrong to us. 7. The bitterness of poverty has poisoned the life of the once cheerful and kindly woman. 8. I received the impression of a life which was a bitter struggle against every sort of difficulty. 9. The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap. 10. My column in the weekly made some stir, and I was referred to in a gossipy way by the critics as something fresh in the line of humorists. 11. The quiet lights in the houses were humming out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars. 12. The hum and rattle of machinery faintly stirred the air.13. Hermione felt injured, that all her good intention, all her offering, only left the other woman in vulgar antagonism. 14. With a shock of dismay so abrupt and overwhelming that it was like a physical injury, George became aware that something was wrong. 15. Studies have shown that injured athletes report negative emotions following the onset of a sport injury. 16. To be thwarted in this reasonable desire was always very injurious to the old gentleman. 17. For the man that prophesies us bad weather, on the contrary, we entertain only bitter and revengeful thoughts. 18. When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. 19. As the minutes passed he had gradually drifted into a revengeful intention without knowing the precise moment of forming it. 20. She couldn't explain now her bitter fury of a few moments ago or why she had used Marie to take revenge on Simon.