prefer to do sth. I preferred to wear sports shoes prefer doing sth: I prefer going to the Summer Palace to sleeping in the dorm 10. sophisticated: complicated, more ad vanced, complex; having acquired worldly knowledge and refinement, lacking natural simplicity or naivety sophisticated weapons/equipment a sophisticated girl 11. The height of the build ing can in principle be worked out In principle, every child has the right to go to school work out: calculate(but it has not yet been carried out) She could work out the answer quickly on a sheet of paper 12. which had been thrown into such a panic by the successful launching of the R Sputnik During the cold war, the successful launching of the Russian Sputnik caused great fear it the US, because it felt that it could no longer depend on the two oceans for its safety. The American general public put the blame on their government, especially their educational system, which they believed had lagged far behind the russians To be thrown into panic: to get into a sudden strong feeling of fear and nervousness Idiomatic expressions do somebody a favor at this point be about to do set up a system walk up stairs mark off with the aid of bring something up the beauty of sth point out to sb the trouble with sth have a strong case for/against at a certain level principle sed to do to work out sth as follows put down a word be fed up with excuse oneself for doing rather than dash off the answer thro sb. Into a pant blame sb For sth Assignment Imagine yourself to be the student and describe your experience of the exam in about 100 words6 prefer to do sth.: I preferred to wear sports shoes. prefer doing sth: I prefer going to the Summer Palace to sleeping in the dorm. 10. sophisticated: complicated, more advanced, complex; having acquired worldly knowledge and refinement, lacking natural simplicity or naivety sophisticated weapons/equipment a sophisticated girl 11. The height of the building can in principle be worked out. in principle: generally In principle, every child has the right to go to school. work out: calculate (but it has not yet been carried out) She could work out the answer quickly on a sheet of paper. 12. which had been thrown into such a panic by the successful launching of the Russian Sputnik. During the cold war, the successful launching of the Russian Sputnik caused great fear it the US, because it felt that it could no longer depend on the two oceans for its safety. The American general public put the blame on their government, especially their educational system, which they believed had lagged far behind the Russians. To be thrown into panic: to get into a sudden strong feeling of fear and nervousness. Idiomatic expressions do somebody a favor at this point be about to do set up a system walk up stairs mark off with the aid of in units bring something up the beauty of sth. point out to sb. the trouble with sth. have a strong case for/against at a certain level in principle be supposed to do. to work out sth. give sb. a try at . as follows put down a word be fed up with .. excuse oneself for doing rather than dash off the answer throw sb. Into a panic lean over the edge blame sb. For sth. Assignment Imagine yourself to be the student and describe your experience of the exam in about 100 words