執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月27日 | Phrases
Kids: Trick or treat!! Neighbor: Oh, what cute costumes! Here, have some candy! When it starts to get dark on Halloween, groups of children start visiting all the houses in the neighborhood. If you want trick-or-treaters to come, you should put out a jack-o-lantern...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月26日 | TOEIC
Your package ____ this morning and should arrive by Friday. Fill in the blank: A. is mailed B. mailed C. was mailed D. has mailed A person mails a package, so the verb must be in the passive voice (A or C). In this circumstance, we could say the package “is being...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月25日 | Trivia
On Halloween, children dress in costumes and collect candy from their neighbors. One popular costume choice is a witch. A traditional Halloween witch wears a pointy hat and ragged black clothes. She has green skin and a big ugly warty nose. She flies on a broomstick...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月24日 | Idioms
Ken: You’ll never guess who I saw at the grocery store. Ted: Who? Ken: My old roommate from college! Ted: But didn’t you go to college in California? Ken: Yeah! Small world, huh? We say the world is small because we keep meeting the same people by coincidence. What...
執筆者 Modern English | 2012年10月23日 | Words
Maurine: Oh no, I forgot my wallet. Could you lend me three dollars for some coffee? Catherine: I would, but I’m completely broke! Sorry! When you are broke, you have no money at all. If you knock a vase off of a table and it breaks, it is not broke; it is broken....
