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our English, you’d better take every chance to practice using it. 3. Your shoes need polishing badly. 4. It’s not astonishing that many people remended that the temple be restored as soon as possible. 5. The second letter in this word can be omitted. 6. His worried look on his face suggested that he hadn’t found his missing child. 7. It happened when we went to watch the musicians’ rehearsal the other day. 8. The little girl stood beside her father watching him correcting her spelling. 9. Last week the young teacher failed to control the class. 10. I managed to spoil some wine on the hostess I was so embarrassed. 1. sounding quieter than normal 2. mentally ill 3. unfriendly or frightening 4. very sad and serious 5. producing a lot of work 6. an oldfashioned word for a hospital for mentally ill people muffled forbidding solemn insane prolific asylum Read and find: 1. Three words that describe sounds 2. Two words that have the same meaning as enormous 3. Three words to describe a person who is living in an asylum Work in pairs. Four students a group. Discuss your answers to the questions. How does the writer imply that the house James Murray was visiting impressed him greatly? List the words and phrases he uses. 德州一中 王 林 波 Can you remember: 1. how many words there are in the Oxford English Dictionary? 2. who James Murray was? 3. when it was first prepared? 4. how many volumes it has today?