18. He said to me,“Where did you go last week?”

→He asked me where had I had gone the week before.

17.“Are you feeling better today?” the doctor asked my sister.

→The doctor asked my sister if she was feeling better that day.

16.“Please wait for me at the gate of the Summer Palace at two tomorrow afternoon,” Kate said to her friend.

→Kate asked her friend to wait for her at the gate of the Summer Palace at two the next afternoon.

15.“Why did she refuse to go there?” the teacher asked.

→The teacher asked why she had refused to go there.

14.“Do you remember what your uncle told you last night?” Li Ping’s father asked him.

→Li Ping’s father asked him if he remembered what his uncle told him the night before.

13.“Will you go to the station with me to meet a friend of mine this afternoon?” he asked me.

→He asked me if I would go to the station with him to meet a friend of his that afternoon.

12.“I can finish it in half an hour,” the worker said to me.

→The worker told me he could finish it in half an hour.

11. “The earth goes around the sun,” the teacher said.

→The teacher said (that) the earth goes around the sun.

10. “I’m checking your homework now,”his mother said.

→His mother said that she was checking his homework then.

9.“We’re going to study in the USA next month,”they said.

→They said that they were going to study in the USA the next month.