Part 4. Language Study and Language Appreciation.
Listen to the following statements you have learned in the previous and present units. Pay special attention to the parts in bold type. Learn to appreciate and use the language.
1. to blossom friendship/ to flourish relationship.
After meeting Eileen Hobson and her dog Sailor, Liam changed his ways and his unlikely friendship with severely disabled wheelchair user Eileen blossomed.
The relationship flourished so much that the dog often knew instinctively what the teenager wanted him to do before he'd even asked.
2. to be one's only real hope to.
A vaccine is our only real hope to avert disaster unparalleled in medical history.
3. A clear majority of.
Still a clear majority of parents wanted to see more sex education in schools, not less.
4. to arm with /to clean up.
Because of this, what we need to do is to arm our parents with the tools they need to educate their children and keep them safe, and make sure that law enforcement does what they can to clean up the criminal activities online.
5. to get... on board.
We get all of the Internet service providers and all of the Internet industry on board.
6. to step forward and donate.
Schuler is the first known person to step forward and donate part of his liver to a stranger.
7. to make a significant dent in.
If more widely used, doctors say, it's an option that can make a significant dent in the organ shortage.
8. to pull someone out of...
We've found parents who are pulling their children out of all of their activities.
9. without fear of...
People walked the streets in complete darkness without fear of being attacked or robbed on their way home.
10. to stare every one in the face.
Destruction as the result of air raids stared everyone in the face and the danger of renewed bombing was ever-present.
11. at the very simplest/ no outlet for.
Statistics show that acts of this kind are mostly committed by young people, often teenagers,
who seem to have come to the conclusion that the society does not want them because they are poorly educated or a different race or color or, at the very simplest, there is no outlet for their energy and high spirits.
12. to be geared to.../ to have little hope of...
Our society is geared to a living standard which these young people have little hope of achieving unless they are helped to do so.
13. to reach one's heyday. /with the advent of...
It reached its heyday in the 60s with the advent of Swinging London, bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and of course the mini-skirt.
14. to be tuned in to...
And no one, she says, is more tuned in to the latest technology than young people.
15. to trickled down to the whole population/ to move the standard of living up a notch.
What always happened in the past is that you had these huge boom times, you had this huge movement of entrepreneurialism, which always trickled down to the whole population, and really moved the American standard of living up a notch.