完形填空Newspapers have one basic purpose, to get the news as quickly as possible from【A1】______ source, from those who make it to those who want to【A2】______ it. Radio, telegraph, television, and other inventions brought competition for newspapers. So【A3】______ the development of magazines and other means of communication.【A4】______, this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster 【A5】______ of communication to improve the speed and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are【A6】______ and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into so many other fields. Besides keeping readers【A7】______ of the latest news, today’s newspapers【A8】______ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices 【A9】______ advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 【A10】______ Newspapers are sold at a price that fails to cover even a small【A11】______ of the cost of production. The main【A12】______ of income for most newspapers is commercial【A13】______. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s【A14】______ to advertisers. This【A15】______ in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends【A16】______ on the work of the circulation department and on the services 【A17】______ entertainment【A18】______ in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers【A19】______ a source of information about the community, city, country, state, nation, and world—and even outer【A20】______ .

完形填空While western governments worry over the threat of Ebola, a more pervasive but far less harm- ful ____(1)____ is spreading through their populations like a winter sniffle: mobile personal technology

完形填空 The main purpose of a resume is to convince an employer to grant you an interview. There are two kinds. One is the familiar 'tombstone' that lists where you went to school and where you've worked in chronological order. The other is what I call the 'functional' resume—descriptive, fun to read, unique to you and much more likely to land you an interview. It's handy to have a 'tombstone' for certain occasions. But prospective employers throw away most of those unrequested 'tombstone' lists, preferring to interview the quick rather than the dead. What follows are tips on writing a functional resume that will get read—a resume that makes you come alive and look interesting to employers. 41 Put yourself first: In order to write a resume others will read with enthusiasm, you have to feel important about yourself. 42 Sell what you can do, not who you are: Practice translating your personality traits, character, accomplishments and achievements into skill areas. There are at least five thousand skill areas in the world of work. Toot your own horn! Many people clutch when asked to think about their abilities. Some think they have none at all! But everyone does, and one of yours may just be the ticket an employer would be glad to punch—if only you show it. 43 Be specific, be concrete, and be brief! Remember that 'brevity is the best policy.' 44 Turn bad news into good: Everybody has had disappointments in work. If you have to mention yours, look for the positive side. 45 Never apologize: If you've returning to the work force after fifteen years as a parent, simply write a short paragraph (summary of background) in place of a chronology of experience. Don't apologize for working at being a mother; it's the hardest job of all. If you have no special training or higher education, just don't mention education. How to prepare yourself: The secret is to think about the self before you start writing about yourself. Take four or five hours off, not necessarily consecutive, and simply write down every accomplishment in your life, on or off the job, that made you feel effective. Don't worry at first about what it all means. Study the list and try to spot patterns. As you study your list, you will come closer to the meaning: identifying your marketable skills. Once you discover patterns, give names to your cluster of accomplishments (leadership skills, budget management skills, child development skills etc.) Try to list at least three accomplishments under the same skills heading. Now start writing your resume as if you mattered. It may take four drafts or more, and several weeks, before you've ready to show it to a stranger (friends are usually too kind) for a reaction. When you've satisfied, send it to a printer; a printed resume is far superior to photocopies. It shows an employer that you regard job hunting as serious work, worth doing right. Isn't that the kind of person you'd want working for you? A. A woman who lost her job as a teacher's aide due to a cutback in government funding wrote: 'Principal of elementary school cited me as the only teacher's aide she would rehire if government funds became available.' B. One resume I received included the following: 'invited by my superior to straighten out our organization's accounts receivable. Set up orderly repayment schedule, reconciled accounts weekly, and improved cash flow 100 per cent. Rewarded with raise and promotion.' Notice how this woman focuses on results, specifies how she accomplished them, and mentions her reward—all in 34 words. C. For example, if you have a flair for saving, managing and investing money, you have money management skills. D. An acquaintance complained of being biased when losing an opportunity due to the statement 'Ready to learn though not so well educated'. E. One of my former colleagues, for example, wrote resumes in three different styles in order to find out which was more preferred. The result is, of course, the one that highlights skills and education background. F. A woman once told me about a cash-flow crisis her employer had faced. She'd agreed to work without pay for three months until business improved. Her reward was her back pay plus a 20 percent bonus. I asked why that marvelous story wasn't in her resume. She answered, 'It wasn't important.' What she was really saying of course was 'I'm not important.'

完形填空 The horse and carriage is a thing of the past. But love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages 1 young couples are the result of 2 attraction and affection 3 than practical considerations. In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin 4 in high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social 5 . Though young people feel 6 to choose their friends from 7 groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is 8 in part to parental guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually 9 choices by 10 disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable. 11 , marriages between members of different groups (interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater 12 of today's youth and the fact that they are restricted by 13 prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend college, 14 in the armed forces, 15 pursue a career in a bigger city. Once away from home and family, they are more 16 to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither 17 nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are 18 the rise particularly between Protestants and Catholics. On the other hand, interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, and 19 a family. Marriages between people of different national 20 (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace here since colonial times.

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完形填空One of the greatest advances in modern technology has been the invention of computers

完形填空Thinner isn’t always better. A number of studies have __1___ that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight. And there are health conditions for which being overweight is actually ___2___. For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women. ___3___ among the elderly, being somewhat overweight is often an ___4___ of good health. 　　Of even greater ___5___ is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define. It is often defined ___6___ body mass index, or BMI. BMI ___7__ body mass divided by the square of height. An adult with a BMI of 18 to 25 is often considered to be normal weight. Between 25 and 30 is overweight. And over 30 is considered obese. Obesity, ___8___,can be divided into moderately obese, severely obese, and very severely obese. 　　While such numerical standards seem 9 , they are not. Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat. Some people with a high BMI are in fact extremely fit, 10 others with a low BMI may be in poor 11 .For example, many collegiate and professional football players 12 as obese, though their percentage body fat is low. Conversely, someone with a small frame may have high body fat but a 13 BMI. 　　Today we have a(an) _14 _ to label obesity as a disgrace.The overweight are sometimes_15_in the media with their faces covered. Stereotypes _16_ with obesity include laziness, lack of will power,and lower prospects for success.Teachers,employers,and health professionals have been shown to harbor biases against the obese. _17_very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

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完形填空Cloud computing (云计算) means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computers hard drive

完形填空The night before I was to have surgery(手术）, Jeremy, my nine-year-old son,became worried

完形填空Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own.【A1】______ the turn of the century when jazz was born, America had no prominent【A2】______ of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was【A3】______ , or by whom. But it began to be【A4】______ in the early1900s. Jazz is Americas contribution to【A5】______ music. In contrast to classical music, which【A6】______ formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free-form. It bubbles with energy, 【A7】______ the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In the 1920s jazz【A8】______ like America, and【A9】______ it does today. The【A10】______ of this music are as interesting as the music【A11】______ . American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz【A12】______ . They were brought to Southern States【A13】______ slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced to work long【A14】______ . When a Negro died his friend and relatives【A15】______ a procession to carry the body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the【A16】______ . On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music suited to the occasion. 【A17】______ on the way home the mood changed. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their【A18】______ , but the living were glad to be alive. The band played【A19】______ music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes【A20】______ at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form of jazz.

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完形填空I became interested in writing at an early age

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完形填空 If you think you can make the planet better by clever shopping, think again. You might make it worse. You probably go shopping several times a month, providing yourself with lots of opportunities to express your opinions. If you are worried about the environment, you might buy organic food; if you want to help poor farmers, you can do your bit by buying Fairtrade products; or you can express a dislike of evil multinational companies and rampant globalization by buying only local produce. And the best bit is that shopping, unlike voting, is fun; so you can do good and enjoy yourself at the same time. Sadly, it's not that easy. 41 . People who want to make the world a better place cannot do so by shifting their shopping habits: transforming the planet requires duller disciplines, like politics. Organic food, which is grown without man-made pesticides and fertilisers, is generally assumed to be more environmentally friendly than conventional intensive farming, which is heavily reliant on chemical inputs. But it all depends on what you mean by 'environmentally friendly'. Farming is inherently bad for the environment: since humans took it up around 11 000 years ago, the result has been deforestation on a massive scale. 42 . Organic methods, which rely on crop rotation, manure and compost in place of fertiliser, are far less intensive. So producing the world's current agricultural output organically would require several times as much land as is currently cultivated. There wouldn't be much room left for the rainforest. Fairtrade food is designed to raise poor farmers' incomes. It is sold at a higher price than ordinary food, with a subsidy passed back to the farmer. But prices of agricultural commodities are low because of overproduction, 43 . Surely the case for local food, produced as close as possible to the consumer in order to minimise 'food miles' and, by extension, carbon emissions, is clear? Surprisingly, it is not. A study of Britain's food system found that nearly half of food-vehicle miles (i. e. , miles travelled by vehicles carrying food) were driven by cars going to and from the shops. Most people live closer to a supermarket than a farmer's market, so more local food could mean more food-vehicle miles. Moving food around in big, carefully packed lorries, as supermarkets do, may in fact be the most efficient way to transport the stuff What's more, once the energy used in production as well as transport is taken into account, local food may turn out to be even less green. 44 . And the local-food movement's aims, of course, contradict those of the Fairtrade movement, by discouraging rich-country consumers from buying poor-country produce. But since the local-food movement looks suspiciously like old-fashioned protectionism masquerading as concern for the environment, helping poor countries is presumably not the point. 45 . The problems lie in the means, not the ends. The best thing about the spread of the ethical-food movement is that it offers grounds for hope. It sends a signal that there is an enormous appetite for change and widespread frustration that governments are not doing enough to preserve the environment, reform world trade or encourage development. A. The aims of much of the ethical-food movement--to protect the environment, to encourage development and to redress the distortions in global trade--are admirable. B. By maintaining the price, the Fairtrade system encourages farmers to produce more of these commodities rather than diversifying into other crops and so depresses prices--thus achieving, for most farmers, exactly the opposite of what the initiative is intended to do. C. Proper free trade would be by far the best way to help,poor farmers. Taxing carbon would price the cost of emissions into the price of goods, and retailers would then have an incentive to source locally if it saved energy. D. There are good reasons to doubt the claims made about three of the most popular varieties of 'ethical' food: organic food, Fairtrade food and local food. E. But following the 'green revolution' of the 1960s greater use of chemical fertiliser has tripled grain yields with very little increase in the area of land under cultivation. F. And since only a small fraction of the mark-up on Fairtrade foods actually goes to the farmer--most goes to the retailer-the system gives rich consumers an inflated impression of their largesse and makes alleviating poverty seem too easy. G. Producing lamb in New Zealand and shipping it to Britain uses less energy than producing British lamb, because fanning in New Zealand is less energy-intensive.

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完形填空Do you know what a resolution is? It s a promise

完形填空When former President Ronald fell and break his hip at the age of 89, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who 【A1】________their hips each year

完形填空　　Governments throughout the world act on the assumption that the welfare of their people depends largely on the economic strength and wealth of the community. 71. Under modern conditions, this requires varying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational research experts. 72. Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country''s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds. It also means that governments are increasingly compelled to interfere in these sectors in order to step up production and ensure that it is utilized to the best advantage. For example, they may encourage research in various ways, including the setting up of their own research centers; they may alter the structure of education, or interfere in order to reduce the wastage of natural resources or tap resources hitherto unexploited; or they may co- operate directly in the growing number of international projects related to science, economics and industry. In any case, all such interventions are heavily dependent on scientific advice and also scientific and technological manpower of all kinds. 　　73. Owing to the remarkable development in mass-communications, people everywhere are feeling new wants and are being exposed to new customs and ideas, while governments are often forced to introduce stir further innovations for the reasons given above. At the same time, the normal rate of social change throughout the world is taking place at a vastly accelerated speed compared with the past. For example , 74. in the early in industrialized countries of Europe the process of industrialization―with all the far-reaching changes in social patterns that followed--was spread over nearly a century, whereas nowadays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so. All this has the effect of building up unusual pressures and tensions within the community and consequently presents serious problems for the governments concerned. 75．Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movements--themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modern means of transport. As a result of all these factors, governments are becoming increasingly dependent on biologists and social scientists for planning the appropriate programs and putting them into effect.

完形填空From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us