填空题 get credit for
take up
lay off
fall into disrepute
be concerned with
not so much...as...
result from
react to
ward off
be committed to

填空题 The sale of Alaska was ______ an American coup ______ a matter of expediency for an imperial Russia that was short of cash and unable to defend its own continental coastline. 出售阿拉斯加与其说是美国出人意料的战略行动，不如说是沙皇俄国因为缺乏资金并且无力守卫海岸线而做出的权宜之计。

填空题 In the late modem era, however, with the rise of materialism and mechanistic science, astrology has ______ and is no longer central to, or even compatible with, the prevailing conceptions of the nature of reality. 然而，随着后现代时期物质主义和机械论科学的崛起，占星学的名声扫地，它不再占据对客观现实本质的主流理解的中心地位，甚至无法与后者共存。

填空题 As he intuitively understands, politicians tend to little ______ disasters avoided but may have to ______ face disproportionately harsh criticism when disasters do happen. 正如他凭直觉所理解的，政治家很少会因为灾难被避免而受到好评，但当灾难真正发生时他们却不得不面对极其严厉的批评。

填空题 The researchers do not yet know for sure what purpose the clam's photonics serve, but have found that the flashing rate increases in tests that mimic the looming of a predator, suggesting that the display serves to ______ such threats. 研究者尚未明确知晓这类蛤蜊的发光系统用途何在，但他们发现在模仿天敌逼近的实验中，光闪烁的频率上升了，这意味着闪烁可能是为了避免这类威胁。

填空题 The complications frequently accompanying diabetes, such as impairment of vision and of kidney function, are now thought to ______ the lack of continuous control of blood glucose concentrations. 伴随糖尿病的常见并发症，例如视力下降和肾功能受损，现在被认为是由于无法连续控制血液中葡萄糖的浓度而造成的。

填空题 Postmodern architecture ______ not ______ the easy goal of returning to the past but with the more subtle and difficult aim of integrating historical forms into a new and complex whole. 后现代主义建筑所关注的并不是复归历史这一简单的目标，而是一种更为微妙和困难的任务，即将历史形式合并到一个崭新且复杂的整体之中。

填空题 The Pentagon says the U.S. military ______ fully ______ its mission in Afghanistan and that efforts will continue to build trust with the Afghans despite the recent deadly violence. 尽管最近发生了致命的暴动，五角大楼表示美国军队会全面致力于完成在阿富汗的使命，并继续努力建立与阿富汗人之间的信任。

填空题 Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its authors ______ those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology circumvents much of the fictional enterprise. 虽然小说无疑源于政治环境，但是小说作者对此类环境的反应却不是以意识形态的方式，而主要把小说和故事看做意识形态的工具，这相当于忽视了小说本身的许多成就。

填空题 The cash-strapped toy chain is poised to ______ as many as 200 employees at its headquarters, as it looks to conserve cash. 为了节约资金，这家资金紧缺的玩具连锁店随时准备在其总部解雇多达200名雇员。

填空题 The call for everyone involved in the lifecycle of a product to ______ responsibility to reduce the product's environmental, health and safety impacts is referred to as product stewardship. 所有参与产品生命周期的个人都被要求承担起减少产品对环境、健康和安全等方面影响的责任，这被称做产品监管。