(1) Good morning, sir. Can I help you?
(2) Are you ready to order, sir?
(3) ‘Report to me tomorrow, corporal! ’ ‘Yes, sir! ’

(1) a feeling of hunger/excitement/sadness, etc.
(2) guilty feelings
(3) I've got a tight feeling in my stomach.

(1) A picture of flowers hung on the wall.
(2) The children were drawing pictures of their pets.
(3) She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture (= a picture of herself) .

(1) She felt fenced in by domestic routine.
(2) His property is fenced with barbed wire.
(3) He put his hand on the post behind her so that he had her fenced in and could look down on her.

(1) boringly normal
(2) a boring job/book/evening
(3) a boring man

(1) The craze for roller skating spread throughout the U.S.
(2) On the day of the accident, my son Gary was roller-skating outside our house.
(3) Where do you go roller - skating?

(1) parallel lines
(2) The road and the canal are parallel to each other.
(3) a parallel case

(1) Have you observed any changes lately?
(2) All the characters in the novel are closely observed (= seem like people in real life) .
(3) The police observed a man enter the bank.

(1) official responsibilities
(2) the Prime Minister's official residence
(3) He attended in his official capacity as mayor.

(1) ...a glorious career spanning more than six decades.
(2) The loss of my wife hit me for six; it took me months to recover...
(3) Many areas in the North were knocked for six by that first recession.

(1) vitamin tablets
(2) Take two tablets with water before meals.
(3) water purification tablets

(1) The scientist could not calculate when the spaceship would reach the Jupiter.
(2) It takes about three days to travel from From Earth to the moon by spaceship.
(3) In future, astronauts will be required to descend from a spaceship while it is still in space and return to it.

(1) The news has certainly excited comment (= made people talk about it) .
(2) to excite attention/criticism/curiosity
(3) The prospect of a year in India greatly excited her.

(1) Your pencil box has several compartments.
(2) My pencils are in my pencil - box .
(3) Will you please show me that pencil - box ?

(1) our daughter/dog/house
(2) We showed them some of our photos.
(3) our main export is rice.

(1) an area the size of (= the same size as) Wales
(2) They complained about the size of their gas bill.
(3) Dogs come in all shapes and sizes .

(1) soccer players
(2) a soccer pitch/team/match
(3) VS: Why do you take another sports like basketball and soccer for the training?

(1) Just shine a laser light or throw a ping pong ball.
(2) Jack is good at some ball games, like football, basketball and ping pong.
(3) I also like to play basketball, ping pong, and badminton.

(1) He was not himself yesterday and so he skipped P . E.
(2) Our P . E teacher, Mr. Li, is strong and handsome.
(3) Chinese, maths, art and P . E . in the morning. Music in the afternoon.

(1) The man fired several shots from his pistol.
(2) Someone took a shot at the car.
(3) We heard some shots in the distance.

(1) Can you skate?
(2) It was so cold that we were able to go skating on the lake.
(3) He skated an exciting programme at the American Championships.

(1) a high/low sound
(2) a clicking/buzzing/scratching, etc. sound
(3) the different sounds and smells of the forest

(1) He's in the first fifteen.
(2) In India, there are fifteen official languages.
(3) Six from fifteen leaves nine.

(1) Mark, you've got a good wife. You ought to take care of her...
(2) The people who already own a bit of money or land ought to have a voice in saying where it goes...
(3) You don't have to be alone with him and I don't think you ought to be...

(1) GRE subject tests measure how much you know in an area like biochemistry, literature and mathematics.
(2) Next year, the biochemistry section will hive off to form an independent department.
(3) Botany, zoology, biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, genetics, fermentation engineering.

(1) a pair of skis
(2) ski boots
(3) the ski slopes

(1) There are plans to enlarge the recreation area.
(2) Reading will enlarge your vocabulary.
(3) We're going to have this picture enlarged.

(1) You can cash cheques here by prior arrangement with the bank.
(2) plans of the possible seating arrangements
(3) the art of flower arrangement

(1) They were climbing up a narrow mountain road...
(2) I ran up the stairs and saw Alison lying at the top...
(3) He was up a ladder sawing off the tops of his apple trees...

(1) the Edinburgh festival
(2) the Cannes film festival
(3) a beer festival

(1) He slung the bag over his shoulder.
(2) She tapped him on the shoulder.
(3) He looked back over his shoulder.

(1) Some rocks are his mouth and eyes, two sticks are his arms, we a snowman now!
(2) snowman is very cute, the people see that we are praised.
(3) Now you have a snowman.

(1) Roosevelt was defiant in the face of the bad news.
(2) With juveniles under eighteen, there's little we can do. We can't keep them in custody. They just laugh in your face.
(3) He came to me with a very long face.

(1) The Liberals were traditionally seen as the more pacific party.
(2) All I ever wanted to do was make movies.
(3) The night is pacific.

(1) artificially created lakes
(2) artificially low prices
(3) artificial emotion

(1) a dog/factory owner
(2) The painting has been returned to its rightful owner .
(3) He's now the proud owner of a cottage in Wales.

(1) a fan heater
(2) He fanned himself with a newspaper to cool down.
(3) fanned by a westerly wind, the fire spread rapidly through the city.

(1) everyday objects such as cups and saucers
(2) Glass and plastic objects lined the shelves.
(3) Her sole object in life is to become a travel writer.

(1) South africa was going through a period of irreversible change.
(2) He was taken prisoner in North africa in 1942.
(3) Athletics South africa was formed by an amalgamation of two organisations.