填空题A. I appreciate your helping me.B. Now that you've asked me, I think it's too short.C. If I were you, I'd write about my education first.D. If you don't think it's any good, please say so.E. I'd better tear up the letter and start all over again.F. But, unless I miss my guess, you should say something about your family, too.G. Just make a few changes, I think, and it will be perfect.H. You are welcome.A: Jack, would you please read the letter of application I've just written. (56) I really want to get the job.B: It looks fine to me. But I have one suggestion.A: Good ! I'm interested in your advice.B: (57) You'd better include more information about your work experience.A: Good idea, Jack. What do you think about the second part?B: (58) A: You're right. I'll change it. How do you feel about the last part of the letter?B: Very good. (59) A: I agree. (60) Do you think the end is all right?B: Oh, yes, George. But personally I believe a business letter should end with "Very truly yours", not "Sincerely".A: Thank you very much, Jack.

填空题 He hates ( )people like John.(honest)

填空题He lives in Australia now, so we only see him very______(occasion).

填空题[A] Preserving cultural identity can be achieved in different way.[B] Ritual and ceremony are used in order to keep their own cultural identification.[C] Ritual and ceremony should not be regarded as a only way of keeping cultural identification, for they have other function.[D] Different cultures mainly use superstition to keep identification.[E] Ritual and ceremony have a closer relation with superstition.[F] In American ritual and ceremony can show their subcultures identity. The speaker asserts that rituals and ceremonies are needed for any culture or group of people to retain a strong sense of identity. I agree that one purpose of ritual and ceremony is to preserve cultural identity, at least in modern times. However, this is not their sole purpose; nor are ritual and ceremony the only means of preserving cultural identity. 41.______ I agree with the speaker insofar as one purpose of ritual and ceremony in today's world is to preserve cultural identity. Native American tribes, for example, cling tenaciously to their traditional ceremonies and rituals, which typically tell a story about 'tribal heritage. The reason for maintaining these rituals and customs lies largely in the tribes' 500-year struggle against assimilation, even extinction, at the hands of European intruders. An outward display of traditional customs and distinct heritage is needed to put the world on notice that each tribe is a distinct and autonomous people, with its own heritage, values, and ideas. Otherwise, the tribe risks total assimilation and loss of identity. 42.______ The lack of meaningful ritual and ceremony in homogenous mainstream America underscores this point. Other than a few gratuitous ceremonies such as weddings and funerals, we maintain no common rituals to set us apart from other cultures. The reason for this is that as a whole America has little cultural identity of its own anymore. Instead, it has become a patchwork quilt of many subcultures, such as Native Americans, Hasidic Jews, Amish, and urban African Americans--each of which resort to some outward demonstration of its distinctiveness in order to establish and maintain a unique cultural identity. 43.______ Nevertheless, preserving cultural identify cannot be the only purpose of ritual and ceremony. Otherwise, how would one explain why isolated cultures that don't need to distinguish themselves to preserve their identity nevertheless engage in their own distinct rituals and ceremonies? In fact, the initial purpose of ritual and ceremony is rooted not in cultural identity but rather superstition and spiritual belief. The original purpose of a ritual might have been to frighten away evil spirits, to bring about weather conditions favorable to bountiful harvests, or to entreat the gods for a successful hunt or for victory in battle. Even today some primitive cultures engage in rituals primarily for such reasons. 44.______ Nor are ritual and ceremony the only means of preserving cultural identity. For example, our Amish culture demonstrates its distinctiveness through dress and lifestyle. Hasidic Jews set themselves apart by their dress, vocational choices, and dietary habits. And African Americans distinguish themselves today by their manner of speech and gesture. Of course, these subcultures have their own distinct ways of cerebrating events such as weddings, coming of age, and so forth. Yet ritual and ceremony are not the primary means by which these subcultures maintain their identity. 45.______ In sum, to prevent total cultural assimilation into our modern-day homogenous soup, a subculture with a unique and proud heritage must maintain an outward display of that heritage--by way of ritual and ceremony. Nevertheless, ritual and ceremony serve a spiritual function as well--one that has little to do with preventing cultural assimilation. Moreover, rituals and ceremonies are not the only means of preserving cultural identity.

填空题 [A] Mark Williams and Jason Mattingley, whose study has just been published in Current Biology, looked at the way a person’s sex affects his or her response to emotionally charged facial expressions. People from all cultures agree on what six basic expressions of emotion look like. Whether the face before you is expressing anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness or surprise seems to be recognised universally — which suggests that the expressions involved are innate, rather than learned. [B] Moreover, most participants could find an angry face just as quickly when it was mixed in a group of eight photographs as when it was part of a group of four. That was in stark contrast to the other five sorts of expression, which took more time to find when they had to be sorted from a larger group. This suggests that something in the brain is attuned to picking out angry .expressions, and that it is especially concerned about angry men. Also, this highly tuned ability seems more important to males than females, since the two researchers found that men-picked out the angry expressions faster than women did, even though women were usually quicker than men to recognized every other sort of facial expression. [C] Dr Williams and Dr Mattingley showed the participants in their study photographs of these emotional expressions in mixed sets of either four or eight. They asked the participants to look for a particular sort of expression, and measured the amount of time it took them to find it. The researchers found, in agreement with previous studies, that both men and women identified angry expressions most quickly. But they also found that anger was more quickly identified on a male face than a female one. [D] Men are notoriously insensitive to the emotional world around them. At least, that is the stereotype peddled by a thousand women’s magazines. And a study by two researchers at the University of Melbourne, in Australia, confirms that men are, indeed, less sensitive to emotion than women, with one important exception. Men are acutely sensitive to the anger of other men. [E] Dr Williams and Dr Mattingley suspect the reason for this is that being able to spot an angry individual quickly has a survival advantage — and, since anger is more likely to turn into lethal violence in men than in women, the ability to spot angry males quickly is particularly valuable. [F] The ability to spot quickly that an alpha male is in a foul mood would thus have great survival value. It would allow the sharp-witted time to choose appeasement, defence or possibly even pre-emptive attack. And, if it is right, this study also confirms a lesson learned by generations of bar-room tough guys and schoolyard bullies: if you want attention, get angry.[G] As to why men are more sensitive to anger than women, it is presumably because they are far more likely to get killed by it. Most murders involve men killing other men — even today the context of homicide is usually a spontaneous dispute over status or sex.(作图)

填空题{{U}}In spite of all her trouble{{/U}} she always gives the appearance of being happy.

填空题Since competition is viewed as the major source of progress and prosperity by most Americans, ______(competition) business institutions are respected.

填空题Sophia is too ______ to be a good actress．索菲亚太害羞了，不能成为一个好演员。

填空题George: ______ . Bob: Today is Friday.

填空题{{B}}Direction: Pick out the appropriate expression from the eight choices and complete the following dialogue by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet. {{/B}} A. I am awfully sorry, B. Not at all. C. It's my pleasure. D. No, of course not. E. Coffee, please. F. You don't look well. G. But he panned to. H. Take it easy.

填空题Look'that little boy is (real)______ a gifted boy.

填空题Equal and exact justice to all men, ...a jealous care of the right of election by the people...: absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism: ...the supremacy of the civil over the military authority: economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened: the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith: encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid: the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason: freedom of religion: freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust: and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.

填空题10．The newspaper reported that Williams would face life in prison if he were convicted ______ attempted murder.

填空题He is a verv diligent student, and often______(study) deep into the night.

填空题These proposals will have a major ef______ upon the university, since several medical school departments as well as a number of related research groups will have to move to a new location.

填空题Author____Title____ Jane tugged at her multiple earrings, coils of gold wire and little glass beads. I had a go at the tension, she said. I can"t get it to go back. Jane was forthright and attacking with many things Veronica had her generations" classic inadequacy about: machines group living, authority.

填空题While remembered mainly for the invention of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell devoted his life to help the deaf. A. While B. remembered C. for the invention D. help

填空题Mrs．Brown asked me to go to her daughters concert and I ______ her invitation with pleasure．布朗夫人要我参加她女儿的音乐会，我高兴地接受了邀请。