Answer:
1.dopted a new set of rules
2.averse to
3.struggled to keep from drowning
4.fastened to the floor
5.Having been in the desert without water for two days
6. mainly due to stress and tension in their work
7. more than two and a half million families have been lifted out of poverty
8. All the members except the Chairman voted for my proposal
9. providing new growth opportunities for China's foreign and domestic trade
10. especially in developed countries
11.A glance at this letter
12. in the way
13. If exposed to the air
14. Shocked at what he had heard
15. rather than regret for the past.