1.I really cannot decide whether to dig up information from the Internet for our annual report over the weekend or go shopping with my friends. But maybe a break would do me good.

　　2.Rarely do new employees take such initiatives as Mr. Johnson does. Usually they’ll wait until they’re familiar with their working environment.

　　3.The subject of the conference is marketing and sales. And I was wondering if you could give us a talk, say, fifty minutes or so on cost-effective publicity.

　　4.If a family has a baby, it brings about special food and clothing needs. When that child grows up, he or she will more directly influence their parents’ choice of daily commodities.

　　5.Not all sugar-containing foods are bad. For example, an apple has its main calories come from sugar, but it’s surrounded by fiber, so it digests slowly and keeps blood sugar under control.

　　6.Had I known that we could buy exactly the same type of camera cheaper on the Internet, I would not have placed the order and paid for this one.

　　7.By far, the most serious economic problem is that of inflation, now being accelerated by the rise of unemployment, and threatened further by a possible wage explosion.

　　8.According to our economists, a tariff is a kind of tax imposed by the government on goods imported from abroad.

　　9.Due to our vigorous advertising campaign, the sales figure for our new product has reached 360,000 dollars this month, three times of our original promotion plan.

　　10.Although the short report was well written and documented, it failed to convince the committee to vote against the proposed project.