company.
3. It is absurd think about a plan that is impossible to implement.
4. Discipline can be relaxed until the last day of school has passed.
5. The country did not became a real democracy unless the middle
of last century.
6. It is with read books as with receiving education in social sciences.
7. It is with researching historic characters as with communicate with
persons of that time.
8. I thought it is with accepting the task as with putting it into
practice before I assimilated into the society.
9. It will be about half a year after you finish the engineering
construction supervision.
10.It will be about three years of getting to know each other
before they decided to marry.
【參考答案】
1. on―in 2. is―is in 3. think―thinking 4. can―cannot
5. unless―until 6. read―reading 7. communicate―communicating
8. is―was 9. after―before 10. will be―took
第三步：偉人偉招
1. 克己複禮式
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. (Ovid )
人越偉大，越能克製怒火。（奧維德）
【點評】通過這句話我們要進一步學習兩個類似句型：
The ~er S. V., … the ~er S. V. …
The more adj. S. V., … the more adj. S. V. …（愈…愈…）
The harder you work, the more progress you make. 你愈努力，你愈進步。
The more books we read, the more learned we become. 我們書讀愈多，我們愈有學問。
2. 聰明易糊塗難式
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. (A. E. Stevenson)
為原則而鬥爭容易，按原則的要求活著難。（史蒂文森）
【點評】“it is 比較級 to do sth. than to do sth.”是另外一個重要的比較級的句型。
第四步：實踐與提高
將下麵的句子補充完整：
1. There is little doubt that serious attention must be called to the
problem of …
2. It is necessary that effective action be taken to prevent the
situation .
3. It is hoped that great efforts be taken to control the