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Firm : ironclad A) bruised : broken B) polished : shining C) smart : brilliant D) hard : stiff E) jovial : merry The answer is C, As my thought of the relation : if something 's firm means it's ironclad. So C-smart : brilliant is good for this relation. But how about D - hard : stiff?

I got it. Thanks so much:P

A) generosity : prodigality B) temperance : modesty C) mettle : spirit D) honor : humility E) compassion : contempt Plz explain for me your anwser. Thanks.

Dear all, In next few hours, Vietnamese people will have a special holiday: a new lunar year. I would like to take this chance to thank to all friends, especially to Erin. You give us alot of english knowledge. I don't have much time to post my idea, but I read and learnt alot from all of you. Wish you a new year with happiness, good-luck, and having alot of money.:p To Erin: There is now a new virus on Internet. This virus attacks SQL Server. Many servers of our company have been attacked, so you'd better backup and be careful with our asset.

Hi all, I have a sentence for you, Those were the soldiers .... to save the town A) whose responsibility it was B) in whom there was a responsibility C) whose was the responsibility D) from whom the responsibility came I choose D, but some choose A. Any idea? Thanks in advance.

Hi all, I have a problem I want to raise here. In SuperCourse book, Test 3, sentence 55 is: The lack of rain in the northern Africa caused severe scaricity of food. The answer is B : northern Africa. But I stumbled upon many sentences that have both the and without the when combining with direction words. For example: - The discovery of gold in northern California ... - In the southern United States ... - arid lands of Southern Texas ... - The no-fly zone is designed to protect Kurds in northern Iraq and Shies in the southern part of the country from Iraqi regime (from CNN) That makes me so confused!!! Do you have any idea?

Let me try: 1. A: the -> a 2. D: who ever lived 3. B: of demand -> in demand. HTH

Thanks Phuong, But it's simply just a list of the so-called plural nouns adjective. :p I want to know if we can have a full list of such nouns or they are just unkown irregular nouns. May be only native speaker know when or what noun can be used like this :(. Thanks again.

Hi all, I meet some sentences that noun is used as an adjective, but the nouns here seems like plural nouns: a sports man a civil rights movement a nuclear weapons program the U.N sanctions regime Can anybody tell me that all are plural noun? If so, what is the true grammar here? Thanks.

Thank you. I got it.

Hi all and Erin, You just corrected this sentence long time ago: Petrography concerns primarily with the detailed description and class fication of rocks where as petrology deals primarily with rock formation. You corrected: But what I am confused is why concerns ==> is concerned whereas deals =/=> is dealt I think the verb concern and deal here have the same meaning as well as grammar structure. Any ideas?

I have a sentence: The red sea, [longly] famed for its pristine water, [is being threatened] by [oil] and sewage [spills]. The answer is A: long. But I think longly is OK because "longly" is adverb for adjective "famed". Am I right?

Can anyone explain the grammar rule of this sentence: Upper classes started breeding better hunting and herding dogs and cuter lap dogs. This sentence has an comparative "better" but I don't seem to see "than" in it. (I read this article from http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/11/21/coolsc.dogorigin/index.html)

I have a sentence: Observatories must be built so far away from urban areas as is possible The answer is B: so ----> as. But the question I want to raise is why D is correct, I think we have to eliminate is from the sentence. Any idea?

I think the answer is habitats I think the answer is D: them (which refer to 2 carbon electrodes)