16.Since then, the resumption of the college entrance examination system played a prelude to the reform and opening up, affecting and changing the fate of several generations.
18." Picking up where Concorde left off" is how Blake Scholl, chief executive of Boom Supersonic, describes Overture 1, the jet which the American startup is developing.
19.Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.
20.In the author's eyes the huge War and Peace was only a sort of preface to a contemporary epic, of which The Decembrists was to have been the nucleus.