1. Haven't you ever heard the cry that there is life even in stone?
Statement sentence: Have you ever heard the cry that there is life even in stones.
2. Is not that eternal movement, that process of evolution, the expression of her vitality?
Statement: That eternal movement, that process of evolution, is the very embodiment of her vitality.
3. What reason and qualification do we have to ridicule the ancients and to show off our cleverness in front of nature?
Statement: We have no reason or qualification to laugh at the ancients and to be clever in front of nature.
4. Who is to say that those wretched pits are not traps dug by man?
Statement: No one can say that those wretched pits are not traps dug by man.
5. Who says the universe is devoid of life?
Statement: The universe is alive.
-- from "In Awe of Nature"
Condensed Sentences
1. The steeds galloped across the vast grassland.
Shrunk to: steeds galloped.
2. A full golden moon hung high in the blue sky.
Shortened to: the full moon hangs.
3. Bunches of grapes that were about to ripen hung like pearls from the vines.
Shortened to: grapes hung all over the vine.
4. The child nearly fell to the deck on the transom.
Reduced to: the child fell onto the deck.
5. The millions of lights in the square silently illuminated the magnificent buildings around Tiananmen Square.
Reduced to: the lights in the square shone on the buildings.
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Correcting Sentences
1. The city leaders listened to Xihu District's report on the Xixi Wetland Comprehensive protection project progress.
Revised to read: City leaders listened to a report on the progress of the comprehensive protection project of Xixi Wetland in Xihu District after a field trip.
2. In the anti-smoking work, in addition to the regular guidance of anti-smoking education, it is particularly important that public figures should set an example.
Replaced by: In the anti-smoking work, in addition to the regular guidance of anti-smoking education, it is particularly important that public figures to set an example.
3. Primary and secondary schools to carry out the promotion and cultivation of the national spirit of education, to guide students to establish to love the motherland `serving the people as the greatest honor, to harm the interests of the country and the people, national dignity as the greatest shame.
Replaced with: primary and secondary schools to carry out the promotion and cultivation of national spirit education, to guide students to establish the love of the motherland `serving the people as the greatest honor, to the detriment of the interests of the country and the people, national dignity as the greatest shame of the concept.
4. Xiaoran Township's fifth Farmers' Games, after nearly a month or so of fierce competition, ended triumphantly on May 15th.
Replaced with: Xiaoran Township, the fifth Farmers' Games, after nearly a month of fierce competition, on May 15, ended victoriously.
5. I store just arrived at the newly published book-length novel "Spring", the location of the second floor of the literary works counter for sale.
Replaced with: I store just to the newly published long story "Spring", in the second floor of the literary works counter sale.