I wanted to see the world before I settled down. That's why I went off to Japan and China.
Like many young people, my younger brother is very idealistic and he wants to change the world and make it a better palce.
Man is the only creature capable of destroying the world.
Fast food outlets seem to have taken over the world since we can find burgers and fries in almost every corner of the planet.
As the only survivor of the crash, I felt I was the luckiest woman in the whole world.
We must get rid of nuclear / biochemical weapons to guarantee our childre a safer world.
We live in a rapidly changing world and must learn to adapt if we are to succeed.
In an ideal world, no one would be hungry.
The people on this small viliage have no telephones or radios, even electricity -- they are completely cut off from the outside world.
Dr Wang, a world authority on spacecraft, will be giving a talk in the main lecture theater this afternoon.
Asafa Powell broke his own world record when he won the 100 meters within 9.74 seconds in Italy, on September 9, 2007.
If you want to broaden your knowledge of world affairs, you shoud read a newspaper, such as New York Times, everyday.
The recent increase in terrorism is a real threat to world peace.
(Adapted from Key Words for Fluency: Intermediate Collocation Practice, written by George Woolard, translated by LU Xiaoping, published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press, 2006)