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填空题 Airline management has ______ tried to solve the problem—high labor costs and volatile fuel prices, by merging to achieve economies of scale. 民航巨头的管理层或多或少都尝试过收购与兼并，希望获得规模效益，从而解决劳动力成本高昂、燃油价格波动剧烈的问题。

填空题 To build on existing theories about love, we propose that passion in love varies ______ the first derivative of intimacy overtime; hence, passion will be low when intimacy is stable (either high or low), but rising intimacy will create a strong sense of passion. 为了扩宽现有的关于爱情的理论，我们提出：在爱情中激情是随着亲密度对时间的一阶导数而变化的；因此当亲密度稳定(不论其高低)时激情会退却，而呈上升趋势的亲密度会创造强烈的激情。

填空题 The video guide for the coal mining museum is ______ a blank wall at the end of the mine tunnel and gives the appearance of a nineteenth century miner sitting down to have his break while explaining to visitors what life is like in the mine. 煤矿博物馆的视频解说被投射到矿井隧道尽头的墙上，上面浮现着一位19世纪的矿工的图像，在工作的间隙坐着向游客介绍矿井中的生活是什么样的。

填空题 Shergottites, the name given to three anomalous achondrites ______ discovered on Earth, present scientists with a genuine enigma. “辉玻无球陨石”是地球上迄今为止发现的三块奇特无球粒陨石的名字，它们给科学家带来了一个真实的谜团。

填空题 The reach for utopian hyper-information is perhaps the most telling and melancholy indication that no one wants to "______", as a medieval chronicler has it, "as hail and snow melt in the waters of a swift river swept away by the current never to return". 对乌托邦式超信息的追求也许是对人们不愿意被遗忘的最为有力也是最为苦涩的证明，正如中世纪一个编年史作家所说的，没有人希望“像融化的冰雹和雪花一样，在湍急的河水中被奔涌向前的激流冲走”。

填空题 Aspartame, a new artificial sugar substitute, is only partial replacement for saccharin because, unlike saccharin, it ______ and loses its sweetening characteristics at high temperatures, making it unsuitable for baking. 阿斯巴甜，一种新的人造代糖，只能在部分场合代替糖精，因为它与糖精不同，在高温下会分解从而失去甜味，因此阿斯巴甜不适用于烘烤。

填空题 Although women have been ______ absent in the most recent negotiations for peace in the Middle East—for instance, there were no female negotiators or technical advisers present during the futile Camp David talks under Clinton—they were among the most active players after the first intifada, and part of the delegations to the first multilateral peace talks in 1991 between the PLO and Israel. 尽管在最近寻求中东和平的谈判中几乎看不到女性的身影——例如在克林顿发起的毫无成效的戴维营会谈中，既没有女性谈判官也没有女性技术顾问——她们是第一次巴勒斯坦大起义之后最为活跃的群体之一，并且参与了1991年巴勒斯坦解放组织和以色列的首次多方和谈。

填空题 The significance of the Magna Carta ______ not ______ its specific provisions, but in its broader impact: it made the king subject to the law. 《自由大宪章》的意义不仅在于它特定的条款，而在于它更宽泛的影响：它让国王也受到了法律约束。

填空题 Although normally diffident, Alison felt so strongly about the issue that she ______ her reserve and spoke up at the committee meeting. 尽管在通常情况下缺乏自信，但是Alison在这个议题上感觉极为强烈，以至于她决定将自己的保守置于一边，在委员会的会议上毫无顾忌地发言。

填空题 Nuclear warheads once ______ the ultimate deterrent to other superpowers, but the emergence of ballistic missile defense systems is weakening its effectiveness. 核弹头曾经扮演了对其他霸权产生终极威慑的角色，但随着导弹防御系统的出现这种效应正在大打折扣。