- •Contents
- •Compounds
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- •Prepositional phrases
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- •Situational practice
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- •Idioms & idiomatic expressions
- •I. Complete the idioms with prepositions. Give their meanings. Use them in sentences of your own.
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- •XIII. Put the expressions into pairs that mean more or less the same.
- •XV. Complete the idioms with prepositions. Give their meanings. Use them in sentences of your own.
- •Literature
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A study of ancient coral reefs has revealed that the weather phenomenon known …..(1) El Nino was most intense during the 20th century. El Nino, which has been present …..(2) the past 130,000 years, is an atmospheric phenomenon occurring in the Pacific Ocean. It is known to contribute …..(3) climatic disturbances along the western coast of Peru and Ecuador …..(4) account of exceptionally warm ocean conditions it brings …..(5). El Nino, which stands …..(6) "the child" referring …..(7) the infant Jesus Christ, appears in the regions every December around Christmas. Every three to seven years, El Nino brings …..(8) being really severe and intense weather conditions. The disturbances strike when the warm ocean currents result …..(9) a reversal in the normal weather conditions of the eastern and western Pacific. El Nino is responsible …..(10) changes in the wind pattern, temperature of the air and the sea surface, which …..(11) turn culminate …..(12) heavy rainfalls in South America as well …..(13) droughts in India and southern Africa. It is now said that El Nino can influence the climate of more than half the earth. It is also blamed …..(14) recent droughts and floods in Australia.
Researchers claim that El Nino's activity was never …..(15) acute as during the last hundred years. Its intensity has been …..(16) the increase since ice ages. The popular view is that El Nino's intense impact may be related …..(17) global warming and emissions of greenhouse gases. Although there is no sufficient evidence to back …..(18) the assumption, it is common knowledge that a great many global changes have come …..(19) in climate ever …..(20) the temperature on the planet started to increase.
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The popular view outside the US that Americans survive …..(1) cheeseburgers, Cokes and French fries is as accurate …..(2) the American popular view that the British live on tea and fish 'n' chips, the Germans only on beer and sauerkraut, and the French on snails and red wine.
Besides being a cliché, this view also comes …..(3) the fact that much of what is advertised abroad as "American food" is a pretty flat, tasteless imitation. American beef …..(4) instance, comes from specially grain-fed cattle, not from cows that are raised mainly for milk production …..(5) effect, American beef is more tender and tastes better …..(6) what is actually offered as an "American steak" in Europe. When sold abroad, the simple baked potato that comes hot and whole in foil is often short …..(7) the most important element − the Idaho potato, famous …..(8) its exceptional taste. This has a different texture and skin that comes from the climate and soil in Idaho. Or, there is even that old picnic favourite, corn-on-the-cob. There is absolutely no comparison …..(9) corn that has been canned, kept in water, or frozen stiff and shipped for weeks …..(10) thousand miles. Even something as basic as barbecue sauces show differences …..(11) many of the types found …..(12) supermarket shelves overseas. A fine barbecue sauce from the Southside of Chicago has its own fire and soul. The Texans have a competition each year …..(13) the hottest barbecue sauce, of course the recipes are kept secret. Then, there are those California wines which do well …..(14) tasting competitions. Like fine wines everywhere, the best ones never leave home. The oldest bourbons and smoothest whiskeys are also not things you would offer …..(15) just anyone.
America has two strong advantages when it comes …..(16) food. The first is that as the leading agricultural nation, she has always been well supplied …..(17) fresh meats, fruits and vegetables …..(18) great variety and …..(19) relatively low prices. This is one reason …..(20) which steak or beef roast is probably the most typical American food; it has always been more available. Family vegetable gardens have been popular both as a hobby and as a way of saving money …..(21) the times when most Americans were farmers. The second advantage America has always been proud …..(22) is that immigrants have brought …..(23) them, and still bring, their traditional foods and recipes.
The variety is simply amazing, incomparable …..(24) any other country …..(25) the world. Whether Basque, Catalonian, French, Greek, Italian, Jewish, Mexican, Polish, Vietnamese or what have you, these traditions are now also at home in the United States.