I particularly want to pay tribute, not only to those who prepared the magnificent dinner, but also to those who have provided the splendid music.（）

All plays are alike to me just as all music is alike to Tony.（）

The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the farmers no longer occur. Egyptian agriculture has been transformed, and industry is benefiting from power generated by the dam.（）

Since economic reform began in 1978, an average growth rate of almost 10% a year has seen Ch ina ’ s GNP nearly quadruple.（）

Egypt ’ s very soil was born in the Nile ’ s annual flood; with the flood came the life -giving mud that made Egypt the granary of the ancient world.（）