(1) Where's the main post office?
(2) You can buy your stamps at the post office.
(3) a post office counter

(1) Cards could be seen all over the neighborhood for the grand opening of an Italian restaurant.
(2) I am quite a stranger in this neighborhood. Can you help me?
(3) Two of China's toughest diplomatic challenges are in its own neighborhood.

(1) The bank is just across the street.
(2) to walk along/down/up the street
(3) the town's narrow cobbled streets

(1) I've just bought a new house...
(2) The two had only just met...
(3) I'm just making the sauce for the cauliflower...

(1) She was too tired to take a shower...
(2) Betty took a photograph of us...
(3) The Patriotic Front took power after a three-month civil war...

(1) (sport 体)a left back/wing
(2) a left hook
(3) Fewer people write with their left hand than with their right.

(1) I'll send the original to you by post .
(2) I'll put the information in the post to you tomorrow.
(3) My application got lost in the post .

(1) The challenge for American leadership is this: Can we put our economic house in order?...
(2) Some think Stempel's departure will help the company get its financial house in order...
(3) The owner knew about the engagement and brought them glasses of champagne on the house.

(1) I think I'll go out and take a walk in the park.
(2) I take a walk along the bank every morning.
(3) I had a sudden whim to take a walk.

(1) That's absolutely right...
(2) Clocks never told the right time...
(3) Walking, done in the right way, is a form of aerobic exercise...

(1) Parents and kids will have fun while sharpening there arithmetic skills, together.
(2) have fun & i want to know all kind of people aroundthe world.
(3) have fun at what you do. It will reflect in your work.

(1) Freezing isn't a bad way of preserving food...
(2) Another way of making new friends is to go to an evening class...
(3) She smiled in a friendly way...

(1) a public/reference/university, etc. library
(2) a library book
(3) a toy library (= for borrowing toys from)

(1) We are hoping for good weather on Sunday.
(2) I just live in hope that one day she'll talk to me...
(3) My mother bought lots of tickets and lived in hope of winning the prize.

(1) The company is moving to new offices on the other side of town.
(2) Are you going to the office today?
(3) an office job

(1) We sat next to each other.
(2) next to skiing my favourite sport is skating.
(3) Charles knew next to nothing about farming.

(1) a taxi driver/ride
(2) We'd better take a taxi .
(3) I came home by taxi .

(1) ...Temple Mount, the place where the Temple actually stood.
(2) ...a list of museums and places of interest...
(3) Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen, the place was a mess...

(1) I'll pay for the tickets.
(2) Are you paying in cash or by credit card ?
(3) Her parents paid for her to go to Canada.

(1) He opened the window and looked out...
(2) The church doors would open and the crowd would surge out.
(3) The Inspector opened the packet of cigarettes...

(1) Don't come near me...
(2) Her children went back every year to stay in a farmhouse near the cottage...
(3) After the war, The House of Hardie came near to bankruptcy...

(1) He turned abruptly and walked away...
(2) He turned to his publicist and jokingly asked, 'What's next?'…
(3) They turned their telescopes towards other nearby galaxies...

(1) her quiet voice
(2) a quieter, more efficient engine
(3) Could you keep the kids quiet while I'm on the phone?

(1) It's cruel to make fun of people who stammer.
(2) She's really fun to be with.
(3) This game looks fun!

(1) a mail service/train/van
(2) the Royal mail
(3) Your cheque is in the mail.

(1) As she passed the library door, the telephone began to ring...
(2) Jane stood aside to let her pass...
(3) He passed through the doorway into Ward B...

(1) You'll need to get on the right side of Carmela.
(2) Our forecast for 1990 was on the right lines.
(3) She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river.

(1) a walking/sightseeing, etc. tour
(2) a coach tour of northern France
(3) a tour operator (= a person or company that organizes tours)

(1) The theatre was evacuated when rain poured through the roof at the Liverpool Playhouse...
(2) Go straight through that door under the EXIT sign...
(3) Use a proper fish knife and fork if possible as they are designed to cut through the flesh but not the bones...

(1) He stepped in front of her, barring her way.
(2) He tipped the table over in front of him.
(3) He has been brought up not to swear in front of women.

(1) a fruit/flower/antiques market
(2) an indoor/a street market
(3) market stalls/traders

(1) a front/back garden
(2) children playing in the garden
(3) garden flowers/plants

(1) there are roadworks between Camblesforth and Carlton...
(2) Are there some countries that have been able to tackle these problems successfully?...
(3) there remains considerable doubt over when the intended high-speed rail link will be complete...

(1) Most of us do our food shopping in the supermarket...
(2) How do those prawns find their way from Norway to the supermarket shelf?
(3) The supermarket offers a rich supply of different commodities.

(1) if I were you, Mrs Gretchen, I just wouldn't worry about it...
(2) I am surprised by the fuss she's making. It's not as if my personality has changed.
(3) Asthma drugs are not addictive and you don't need to keep increasing the dose. if anything, the reverse is true.

(1) He kissed her hungrily.
(2) They gazed hungrily at the display of food.
(3) His eyes had a wild hungry look in them.

(1) an Italian restaurant
(2) We had a meal in a restaurant.
(3) We went out to a restaurant to celebrate.

(1) The next train to Baltimore is at ten.
(2) The next six months will be the hardest.
(3) the next chapter

(1) I dropped a quarter into the slot of the pay phone.
(2) Next time use a pay phone and call me.
(3) I tried to find a pay phone, but the receiver broke down.

(1) Hyde park
(2) We went for a walk in the park.
(3) a park bench