填空题U离圣诞节只有一个星期了/U, the housewives are all busy shopping.
填空题By the time the war ______ (break)out, most people had left.
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填空题Will you please contact your manufactures, and ask them to ______ the goods in time?
填空题{{U}}他别无选择{{/U}} but to lay facts before the public exactly as they occurred.
填空题The structural approach to the analysis of language was started by the Swiss linguist______ in the beginning of the twentieth century. (中山大学2006研)
填空题As China is also a target of international terrorist acts, its government ______ against terrorism.
填空题A (51) of foreign words still look like foreign words; there are often expressions which (52) originally used by people who wanted to sound particularly well-educated. It was the desire to be scholarly that brought (53) a wave of Latin terms which appeared in the 16th century (54) the Humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout Europe. (55) such as, e. g. (from the Latin meaning a voluntary example); PS (meaning" added after the latter has been written" ); a.m. and (56) ( meaning "before noon" and" after noon" ) came into the language at this time. Nowadays they are (57) common that most people don't even know (58) the letters actually stand for and there's certainly nothing learned about using them today ! In addition to the words brought to English (59) foreigners, there are plenty of words which the British have collected from the countries they have settled in all (60) the world. There are even a few Chinese words, which I’m sure a Chinese speaker would recognize from the way we pronounce them:" typhoon" is a great wind; "to kow-tow" is to bow down low; a "sampan" is a small wooden boat. Over 5,000 of the words in common use in English today are words of foreign (61) . Some of them are clearly recognizable (62) foreign like "au pair" or "rendezvous"; (63) now look so English that only a language historian knows (64) they came from. So English is in a state of permanent development. Both in Britain and abroad it is gaining (65) words and expressions, and dropping and changing old (66) . Words changes their meaning, and they go in and out of fashion (67) hairstyles. Nobody knows all the four million words that are said to exist; a well-educated person probably (68) under 20,000. So don't be surprised if you never encounter some of the expressions that still appear in school textbook; and next time you hear somebody using a strange word you haven't heard (69) , you can comfort yourself that there may well be a native speaker somewhere who doesn't know it (70) .
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will not do
it
had he known
how
serious
the outcome
would be
.
填空题When we ______ know these new employees better, we will assign more suitable tasks to each of them.
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Farm-raised pigs are dirty, smelly animals that get no
respect. They’re also an environmental hazard. Their manure contains phosphorus,
which, when it rains, runs off into lakes and estuaries, depleting oxygen,
killing fish, stimulating algae overgrowth and emitting greenhouse
gases. 41. ______. Pigs provide more dietary protein, more
cheaply, to more people than any other animal. Northern Europe still maintains
the highest pig-to-human ratio in the world (2-1 in Den- mark), but East Asia is
catching up. During the 1990s, pork production doubled in Vietnam and grew by 70
percent in China— along densely populated coastlines, pig density exceeds 100
animals per square kilometer. The resulting pollution is “threatening fragile
coastal marine habitats including mangroves, coral reefs and sea grasses,”
according to a report released in February by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations. As it turns out, there is a
solution to the pig problem, but it requires a change of mind-set among
environmentalists and the public. 42. ______. The Enviropig is
one of many new technologies that are putting environmentalists and organic-food
proponents in a quandary: should they remain categorically opposed to
genetically modified (GM) foods even at the expense of the environment? 43.
______. The most significant GM applications will be ones that help alleviate
the problem of agriculture, which accounts for 38 percent of the world’s
landmass and is crowding out natural ecosystems and species habitats. GM crops
that can be produced more efficiently would allow us to return land to
nature. 44. ______. U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist
Eliot Herman has already created a less-allergenic soybean — an important crop
for baby foods. Through genetic surgery, Herman turned off the soy gene
responsible for 65 percent of allergic reactions. Not only was the modified soy
less allergenic in tests but, as Herman explained, “the yield looks perfectly
normal, plants develop and grow at a normal rate and they seem to have the same
kinds of protein, oil and other good stuff in them.” Other scientists have
reported promising results in shutting off allergy-causing genes in peanuts and
shrimp. Should these advances be turned into products, organic soy or peanut
products will be certifiably more dangerous to human health than comparable
nonorganic products.45. ______. In this climate, much of the needed research
isn’t being pursued. Chances are, farmers will continue to grow their polluting
organic pork, their allergenic organic soy and their neurotoxin-sprayed organic
apples. Worse still, they will make sure that no one else gets a choice in the
matter of improving the conditions of life on earth — unless, that is, others
rise up and demand an alternative. [A] Two Canadian scientists
have created a pig whose manure doesn’t contain very much phosphorus at all. If
this variety of pig were adopted widely, it could greatly reduce a major source
of pollution. But the Enviropig, as they call it, is the product of genetic
modification — which is anathema to many Westerners. [B] In
fact, although all commonly used pesticides dissipate so quickly that they pose
a miniscule health risk to consumers, allergic food reactions to natural
products kill hundreds of children each year. Genetically modified foods could
greatly reduce this risk. [C] Canadian biologists Cecil
Forsberg and John Phillips, for instance, have constructed a novel DNA molecule
that, when planted in a pig embryo, imbues the Enviropig with the ability to
secrete a phosphorus extracting enzyme in its saliva. The results so far are
dramatic — the new pigs can extract all the phosphorus they need from grain
alone, without the phosphorus supplements that farmers now use. This reduces the
phosphorus content of their manure by up to 75 percent. [D]
Doing away with the pig is not an option. [E] Pigs can also be
modified to digest grasses and hay (as cows and sheep do), reducing the
energy-intensive use of corn as pig feed. Elsewhere, trees grown for paper could
be made amenable to much more efficient processing, reducing both energy usage
and toxic chemical bleach in effluents from paper mills. [F] Of
course, stringent testing is needed to show that a genetic modification works
and that the product is not harmful to humans. Scientists can do both of these
things with techniques that allow them to examine and compare the structure and
activity of every one of an animal’s genes. [G] Unfortunately,
this won’t happen any time soon. Because no society has ever banned allergenic
foods, conventional farmers have no incentive to plant reduced-allergy seeds.
And many members of the public have been led to believe that all genetic
modifications create health risks.
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While Americans have become ever more dependent upon
electricity in their daily lives, a crucial part of the system that supports
their way of life has not kept up. Yes, the country has built more power plants
enough to create a glut of power in most parts of the country,41.
_____________________. California's disastrous partial energy
deregulation and the role played by Enron and other energy marketing companies
in its power crisis have impeded changes in the national ability to deliver
power. 42. _____________________. Moreover, the deficiency also
includes inadequate coordination among the regions in managing the flow of
electricity. These interregional weaknesses are so far the most plausible
explanation for the blackout on Thursday. 43.
_____________________. The problem is with the system of rules,
organization, and oversight that governs the transmission networks. It was set
up for a very different era and is now caught in a difficult
transition. The transmission networks were built to serve a
utility system based on regulated monopolies. In the old days, there was no
competition for customers. Today, the mission is to connect buyers and sellers
seeking the best deal, irrespective of political boundaries and local
jurisdictions. 44. _____________________. Yet the power industry
is probably not even halfway there in its shift from regulation to the
marketplace. The California power crisis and the power-trading scandals sent
regulators back to the drawing board, slowing the development of new
institutions, rules and investment to make competitive markets work.
45. _____________________.[A] Over all, for more than a decade, the
power industry has been struggling with how to move from the old regulation to
the new marketplace. This shift was driven by the view that half a century of
state regulation had produced power prices that were too high and too varied
among states. Factories and jobs were migrating from states with high electric
power prices to those with lower prices.[B] But the transmission system is
caught in the middle of the stalled deregulation of the American electric power
industry.[C] As a result, the development of the regional transmission
organizations is erratic. More than one-third of the power transmitted is not
under the control of regional transmission organizations. Some states fear that
their cheap power would be sucked away to other markets; others do not want to
subordinate state authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.[D]
It was unclear when the waters would recede, never mind when life would return
to normal. Power may not be restored for weeks. Looting, too. Began to spiral
out of control. Mr Nagin, who said the city might be uninhabitable for three
months, was forced to order police to concentrate on stopping crime, not saving
people.[E] What's preventing greater connection and coordination
between regions? The technology exists, and is available; the economic benefits
of relieving the bottlenecks between regions far exceeds the costs by many
billions of dollars.[F] Yet, despite claims in the wake of last week's
blackout that the nation has a "third world" power grid, the regional networks
are first world. But in one critical aspect, the system has become increasingly
vulnerable: in the interconnections among the different regions. Both the number
and size of the wires on the borders between regions are inadequate for the
rising flow of electricity. This missing part creates the worst bottlenecks in
the system.[G] Since entering the overseas power market in 1993, KEPCO has
established several achievements through its distinguished international
business strategies to promote electric power development of the world. Based on
its long experience and advanced technology gained over 100 years in Korea,
KEPCO continues to build up its outstanding reputation as a leading utility
company. Moreover, KEPCO embraces challenges and makes bold steps into wider
markets in the world by its flair for dynamic activities, which is favorably
received in the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Libya.
填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}In the following article, some sentences have been
removed. For Questions 41~45, choose the most suitable one from the list A~G to
fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices which do not
fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
A recession marked the early years of Reagan's presidency, but
conditions started to improve in 1983 and the United States entered one of
the longest periods of sustained economic growth since World War Ⅱ.
However, an alarming percentage of this growth was based on deficit spending. In
1988, former vice president George Bush became President. He continued many of
Reagan's policies. Bush's efforts to gain control over the federal budget
deficit, however, were problematic. The 1990s brought a new president, Bill
Clinton, a cautious, moderate Democrat, whose liberal initiatives created a myth
for the American economy. 41)__________. Still, although Clinton
reduced the size of the federal work force, the government continued to play a
crucial role in the nation's economy. Mast of the major innovations of the New
Deal, and a good many of the Great Society, remained in place. And the Federal
Reserve system continued to regulate the overall pace of economic activity, with
a watchful eye for any signs of renewed inflation.
42)__________. Technological developments brought a wide range of
sophisticated new electronic products. Innovations in telecommunications and
computer networking spawned a vast computer hardware and software industry and
revolutionized the way many industries operate. 43)__________.
No longer are Americans afraid that the Japanese will overwhelm them with
superior technology or that they will saddle their children with government
debt. America's labor force changed markedly during the 1990s.
Continuing a long term trend, the number of farmers declined. A small portion of
workers had jobs in industry, while a much greater share worked in the service
sector, in jobs ranging from store clerks to financial planners. If steel and
shoes were no longer American manufacturing mainstays, computers and the
software that make them run were. 44)__________. Economists,
surprised at the combination of rapid growth and continued low inflation,
debated whether the United States had a "new economy" capable of sustaining a
faster growth rate than seemed possible based on the experiences of the previous
40 years. 45)__________. Asia, which had grown especially
rapidly during the 1980s, joined Europe as a major supplier of finished goods
and a market for American exports. Sophisticated worldwide telecommunications
systems linked the world's financial markets in a way unimaginable even a few
years earlier. A. The economy, meanwhile, turned in an
increasingly healthy performance as the 1990s progressed. With the fall of the
Soviet Union and Eastern European communism in the late 1980s, trade
opportunities expanded greatly. B. Still, Americans ended the
1990s with a restored sense of confidence. By the end of 1999, the economy had
grown continuously since March 1991, the longest peacetime economic expansion in
history. C. Clinton sounded some of the same themes as his
predecessors. After unsuccessfully urging Congress to enact an ambitious
proposal to expand health-insurance coverage, Clinton declared that the era of
"big government" was over in America. He pushed to strengthen market forces in
some sectors, working with Congress to open local telephone service to
competition. He also joined Republicans to reduce welfare benefits.
D. Finally, the American economy was more closely intertwined with the
global economy than it ever had been. Clinton, like his predecessors, had
continued to push for elimination of trade barriers. A North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA. had further increased economic ties between the United States
and its largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico. E. While
many Americans remained convinced that global economic integration benefited all
nations, the growing interdependence created some dislocations as well. Workers
in high-technology industries at which the United States excelled fared rather
well, but competition from many foreign countries that generally had lower labor
costs tended to dampen wages in traditional manufacturing industries.
F. The expansion that began in March 1991 has raised real gross domestic
product by more than a third, minted 100,000 more people earning a million
dollars a year. After peaking at $290,000 million in 1992, the federal budget
deficit steadily shrank as economic growth increased tax revenues. In 1998, the
government posted its first surplus in 30 years, although a huge debt mainly in
the form of promised future Social Security payments to the baby boomers
remained. G. Best of all, the healthy economy has transformed
the psyche of millions of Americans. The pervasive gloom at the beginning
of the 1990s is gone.
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填空题In making conversation, the general principle that all participants are expected to observe is called the______principle proposed by J. Grice.
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to be
one of the
more
beautiful parks
which
were entirely destroyed
in
Qing Dynasty.
A. to be
B. more
C. which
D. in
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填空题The way
which
the different kinds of rock
lie on
one another
helps to tell the story
of long ago
.
A. which
B. lie on
C. one another
D. of long ago
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