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55.Leaves are to the plant what lungs are to the animal1

56.A whale is no more a fish than a horse is .A whale is not a fish any more than a horse is3

57.You may as well call a cat a little tiger as call a tiger a big cat.You might as well call a horse a fish as call a whale one17

58.There are more intelligent monkeys than Herbert.There are monkeys more intel-ligent than Herbert24

59.Who in the world are you?25

60.He goes to school averyday.He will often sit for hours together,reading newspapers.I used to smoke fifty cigarettes a day.He would often come home late in the night30

61.It was very cold last eveving-so much so that I could not stir out of doors41

62.My Hero Brand fountain pen is as good as new,though I've used it a year45

63.A:It was cold yesterday.B:So it was.A:I like beef.B:So do I48

64.I will have some one come.I shall have some one come53

65.I can't have him doing that58

66.I want to have my hair cut.I'd sooner have my bones broken than recant62

67.So far as experiments go,the magnet pulls iron and never any thing else.We travelled together as far as Nanking,when we parted66

68.What with the wind and what with the rain,our walk was spolled69

69.We had scarcely got on shore when it began to blow hard.No sooner had we got on shore than it began to blow hard.As soon as we got on shore it began to blow hard73

70.I got up so early as to be in time for the express.I got up early so as to be in time for the express.I got up early so as not to lose the train83

71.It is not so much men's faults that ruin them as the manner in which they conduct themselves after the faults have been committed.I don't know him;indeed I have not so much as heard his name88

72.No one but a fool would do such a thing.The reactionaries left nothing but smoking earth and white bones in the Chingkang Mountains96

73.He is anything but a fool.He is all but a fool101

74.Comrade Wang cannot do it,can he?Comrade Wang cannot do it,can't he?105

75.It is very noisy,is Shanghai on Sunday.You look full of sense,you do111

76.Launcelot:Nay,indeed,if you had your eyes,you might fail of the knowing me:it's a wise father that knows his own child115

77.He knows how to use the terrain and thing for cover,to saynothing of making use of a gun.He does not know how to use a gun,to say nothing of making use of the terrain and things for cover.Her solitary condition,or the bad weather,or both united, made Mrs.Lupin thoughtful,not to say sorrowflu118

78.He is rather hot tempered,and owns as much.What takes you only three hours,takes me as many days.The donkey was so wild ,and it was as much as I could do to manage him at all.He looked at me as much as to say I was a liar.It is as much your responsibility as mine122

79.Simple as the fan is,its production is a time-consuming affair125

80.Written,as it is,in an easy style,the book is adapted for beginners.Living,as we do,so remote from towns,we rarely have visitors132

81.His mother had three children,of which he was the oldest.He is exactly the man which such an education was most likely to form135

82.There are several reasons why minicomputers are not yet extensively used in developing countries,now that cost has ceased to be an obstacle139

83.He was a good painter,if ever there was one.He can do it,if any one can.If you do it at all,do it well141

84.It's good and cold out145

85.It was raining when we arrived.He didn't tell me when he would be back.He stayed there till Sunday,when he started for Nanking150

86.Come snow,come windstorm,the people's communes' herds are well protected in their pens.Cost what it may,I shall have to buy the pen155

87.He rose early on that day that he might not be lave for the train.He rose early on that day for fear he might be late for the train.He rose early on that day lest he should be lave for the train.He rose early on that day so as not to be late for the train.He rose early on that day in order not to be late for the train163

88.He cannot but langh to hear such a story.He cannot help laughing to hear such a story.He cannot help but laug？ hear such a story175

89.I ask nothing from you but that you should hand over the letter to us180

90.I never went out but I met him183

91.But that he prevented me,I would have replied.But for your aid,I should have failed191

92.There is no one but knows it196

93.Nothing is so hard but that it becomes easy by practice199

94.I don't doubt but that he will come203

95.He is extremely strong-not but that he will catch cold at times215

96.This question is too important to be neglected220

97.I shall be only too glad to help you228

98."I will fetch you a candle,sir,and,in Heaven's name,get up.Somebody has plotted something:you cannot too soon find out who and what it is.""This snow is a difficult fellow to make friends with.He's very touchy,"the men wisecracked."You can't be too hard,or too soft,too fast,or too slow.You mustn't lean back,but you can't lean too far forward either234

99.I would rather die than yield.The bat has very long and thin fingers on its forelegs,or arms,as we had better call them241

100.I am glad to see you.I emerged from Red China to find a sharpening tension between the Tungpei troops of Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and Chiang Kai-shek248

101.It must needs be true.A man needs must lie down when he sleeps253

102.It happened long,long ago.One fine day,Mr.Tung Kuo was walking along slowly with a bag of books on his shoulder259

103.What these troops must have suffered from cold was not difficult to imagine.Mr.Copperfield was teaching me-Much he knew of it himself!262

104.You may converse with them if you please,but the——take me if ever I do267

105.A man not know what he had on!no,no!272

106.Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands;The smith,a mighty man is he,with large and sinewy hands;And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands275

107.He is having a swim.He gave the door a kick278

108.He is as brave as any man alive.He is as brave a man as ever breathed.He is the bravest man that ever lived280

109.I am as tall as he.I am not no tall as he.You can't get one so good as this286

110.Not that I dislike the task,but that I am unequal to it289

111.The mountain is not valuable because it is high.A scientist is none the worse for a single failure.He is all the wiser for his failures292

112.Still it became in a manner necessary;twice,or thrice,Hindley's manifestation of scorn,while his father was near,roused the old man to a fury:he seized his stick to strike him,and shook with rage that he could not do it.……Yeh,his face still set,was issuing her an order,"Stay away and think it over!""Stop working?"She felt as though icy water had been poured over her head.She was even more flutered that her father was standing behind her302

113.He does nothing but laugh.I think you can't do better than go308

114.His parents want to make a scientist of him.His parents want to make him a scientist317

115.He longed to go there himself,for he was something of a hunter as well as farmer;and Boone had sent him glowing accounts of the abundance of game and the richness of the soil321

116.For all you say,I will still go325

117.Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!329

118.I had not waited long before he apperaed332

119.He left his own house through the back door and made straight for the barn-yard.The best thing he could do was go to his father334

120.The giving to the courts the power to review hard and uncon-scionable bargains will control the rest.The giving to the courts of the power to review hard and uncon-scionable bargains will control the rest338

121.He took me by the band.He looked me in the face343

122.As I went out at the front door,some one came in at the back e？trance.The boy came out of one shop and went into another349

123.He is my senior by three years.He was too late by five minutes.The export exceeds the import by ten million yuan353

124.He is nephew to Comrade Wang.He is a nephew of Comrade Wang356

125.We have ships,and men,and money,and stores.And the rain descended,and the floods came,and the winds blew,and beat upon the house;and it fell;and great was the fall of it361

126.Beatrice became more and more influenced by Randal's arguments.He is married now,but I cant't tell you when he got married.He has come to be treated more kindly by his associates365

127.My two big sisters having now charge of things in the house makes it much easier for mother.I to bear this is some burden368

128.Here be my keys372

129."Pardon me.It isn't me he is paying attentions to."374

130.I heard say your lordship was sick.Annie seem'd to hear her own death-scaffold raising377

131.Not enjoyment and not sorrow,Is our destinea end or way379