[00:14]sole

　　[00:15]She is the sole beneficiary

　　[00:17]of her husband's ＄10 000 insurance policy.

　　[00:23]solve

　　[00:25]How are you going to solve the questions

　　[00:27]put forward?

　　[00:30]sometime

　　[00:32]I saw him sometime last summer.

　　[00:36]sound

　　[00:37]The missing children were found safe and sound

　　[00:40]by the police.

　　[00:43]span

　　[00:45]How brief the span of life is!

　　[00:50]specially

　　[00:51]Bluebird, the car he was driving,

　　[00:54]had been specially built for him.

　　[00:58]sphere

　　[00:59]We are doing this work

　　[01:01]in the context of reforms in the economic,

　　[01:04]social and cultural  spheres.

　　[01:09]sportsman

　　[01:10]A sportsman is a man

　　[01:12]who likes some such games as cricket,

　　[01:15]football, etc.

　　[01:19]spring

　　[01:20]We are impatient for spring to arrive.

　　[01:25]stack

　　[01:26]How does our product stack up against the competition?

　　[01:32]stain

　　[01:33]I'm afraid

　　[01:34]I can't get this stain out of your blouse.

　　[01:39]stake

　　[01:40]He lost his stakes

　　[01:42]when the horse finished last.

　　[01:46]state

　　[01:47]A healthy state of mind

　　[01:48]is the source of a happy life.

　　[01:53]steer

　　[01:54]“How can we steer our child toward success?”

　　[01:58]they ask.

　　[01:59]stem

　　[02:00]The present wave strikes

　　[02:02]stems from discontent among the lower-paid.

　　[02:07]stiff

　　[02:09]After riding in the chilly wind,

　　[02:11]he felt stiff in four limbs.

　　[02:15]sting

　　[02:17]Some spiders can give a poisonous sting.

　　[02:22]stir

　　[02:23]The dissident stirred up the students

　　[02:25]to hold a demonstration

　　[02:28]and by this way

　　[02:29]he wanted to pressure the government to give in.

　　[02:34]stock

　　[02:35]The New York Stock Exchange crashed in 1929.

　　[02:41]stress

　　[02:43]He lay stress on the point about hard work.

　　[02:48]stretch

　　[02:50]The Chicago newspaperman looked pained,

　　[02:53]his journalistic vocabulary stretched thinner and further

　　[02:57]than an Gore story.

　　[03:01] stroke

　　[03:02]The stroke of midnight

　　[03:03]signaled the New Year's coming.

　　[03:07]structure

　　[03:09]The Great Wall is one of the most famous

　　[03:11]and also ancient structures in the world.

　　[03:16]style

　　[03:18]Books for children should have a clear,easy style.

　　[03:24]subsequent

　　[03:26]In subsequent lessons,

　　[03:27]we shall discuss the topic further.

　　[03:31]substance

　　[03:33]There's little substance to her speech

　　[03:35]but it's very amusing.

　　[03:39]succeed

　　[03:40]The stormy night ended

　　[03:42]and a beautiful morning succeeded.

　　[03:46]suicide

　　[03:48]The tragic suicide of Zhang Guorong

　　[03:52]is on everyone's tongue.

　　[03:56]summarize／ise

　　[03:57]His statement summarized  the situation.

　　[04:02]summit

　　[04:04]There is no royal road to science,

　　[04:07]and only those

　　[04:08]who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths

　　[04:12]have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.