填空题Jessie: Mike, I've got a problem.Mike: (51) Jessie: I've bought a big sofa. But I can't move it up.Mike: You certainly can't do it by yourself.Jessie: Do you think you can help me?Mike: (52) . But where do you want it moved, Jessie?Jessie: (53) Mike: No, of course not. But why do you want it upstairs?Jessie: I have a sitting room upstairs and I want to set it on the corner. Mike, will you take the front end?Mike: (54) . But wouldn't it be better if you went first? You know where you're going. I'll hold the back end and it's heavier.Jessie: (55) , Mike. Let's go.

填空题I could not see the road properly because of the ______． 因为天黑，我看不清路。

填空题A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. 1 America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. 2 By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea"s LG Electronics in July.) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America"s machine tool industry was on the ropes. 3 All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. 4 Their sometimes-sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas. 5 In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. "American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard"s Kennedy School of Government."It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States." A. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invested and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty. B. Its scientists were the world"s best, its workers the most skilled. C. How things have changed! D. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America"s industrial decline. E. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. F. Some of the nation"s largest businesses shrink in size when they appear on the government"s database of federal contractors.

填空题A ballet dancer who does not practice every day loses a lot of skill，______． 一个不每天练功的芭蕾舞演员很多技巧会生疏，不每天练功的音乐家亦然。

填空题She was determined that no one should know her ______ name．(reality)

填空题Last year's economy should have won the Oscar for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent; profits soared; exports flourished; and inflation stayed around 3 percent for the third year. 41.________________________________. Jobs insecurity was rampant. Even as they announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a tailspin, cutting 516, 069 jobs in 2003 alone, almost as many as in the recession year of 1991. Yes, unemployment went down. But over one million workers were so discouraged they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full-time work were only partially employed; and another large group was either overqualified or sheltered behind the euphemism of self-employment. We lost a million good manufacturing jobs between 1998 and 2002, continuing the trend that has reduced the blue-collar work force from about 30 percent in the 1950s to about half of that today. 42.________________________________. All this happened in a country where people meet for the first time saying, "What do you do?" Then there is the matter of remuneration. The Labor Department recently reported that real wages fell 2.3 percent in the 12-month period ending this March. Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates and by about 7 percent for those with some college education. Only the wages of college graduates are up, by 5 percent, and recently starting salaries, even for this group, have not kept up with inflation. While the top 5 percent of the population was setting new income records almost every year, poverty rates rose from 11 percent to 15 percent. 43.________________________________. In previous business cycles, companies with rising productivity raised wages to keep labor. Is the historical link between productivity improvements and income growth served?44.________________________________. Just think that in 1976, 78 percent of auto workers and steel-workers in good mass production jobs were high school dropouts. But these jobs are disappearing fast. Education and job training are what count. These days college graduates can expect to earn 1.9 times the likely earnings of high school graduates, up from 1.45 times in the 1970s. 45.________________________________. American males now toil about a week and a half longer than they did in 1973, the first time working hours have increased over an extended period of time. Women, particularly in poorer families, are working harder, too. Two- worker families rose by more than 20 percent in the 1990s. Seven million workers hold at least two jobs, the highest proportion in half a century. America is simply not growing fast enough to tighten the labor market and push up real wages.[A] Otherwise, an angry, disillusioned and frustrated population -- whose rage today is focused on big government, excess taxes, immigration, welfare and affirmative action -- may someday be brought together by its sense of diminished hopes. Then we will all be in for a very difficult time.[B] No wonder this is beginning to be called the Silent Depression. What is going on here?[C] The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the economy.[D] So why did so many Americans give the picture a lousy B rating? The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic situation was good, but the microeconomic numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were permanent, good jobs paying enough to sup- port a family.[E] The earning squeeze on middle-class and working-class people and the scarcity of "good, high-paying" jobs will be the big political issue. Americans have so far responded to their falling fortunes by working harder.[F] White-collar workers found out they were no longer immune. For the fist time, they were let go in numbers virtually equal to those for blue-collar workers. Many resorted to temporary work- with lower pay, fewer benefits and less status.[G] Of all the reasons given for the wage squeeze -- international competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts -- technology is probable the most crucial. It has favored the educated and skilled.

填空题 It's not just an American phenomenon: Across the globe, single-parent homes are on the rise. Numbers for one-parent families increased from England to Australia during the 1990s, mirroring demographic shifts reflected in the U.S. census. Just as in America, those shifts raised new questions about how involved government should be in helping single-parent families, which often are less well-off financially than those led by a married mom and dad.41. _______________ Annie Oliver, a 32-year-old single mother from Bristol, England, thinks so. "You wouldn't believe how becoming a single parent suddenly made me a second-class citizen," said Oliver, who struggles to keep a full-time job and give the extra care her disabled son needs.42. _______________ By comparison, 9.8 million house-holds, or 9 percent of all U. S. households were headed by an adult raising a child alone or without a spouse. The 1990 census showed 26 percent of homes were led by a married mother and father, and 8 percent of homes were led by a single parent. Similar increases occurred in other countries, though data from those countries are not directly comparable to U. S. census figures because of methodology differences.43. _______________ Single parent households in Australia rose from 5,8 percent in 1990 to 7.6 percent in 1999. Other countries that saw large increases, according to the Organization: —Belgium, 1.8 percent of households in 1990 to 2.7 percent in 1999; —Ireland, 1.8 percent to 2.8 percent; —Luxembourg, 1.3 percent to 2.2pereent.44. ______________ Those countries tend to have greater acceptance of single parenting because there are fewer nearby family members to disapprove, Riche said. Lone-parent family households in Japan increased from 5.1 percent in 1990 to just 5.2 percent in 1999.45. ______________ "The position of one-parent families in any given country is very much a gender issue—women's opportunities, especially working-class women on low income," said Sue Cohen, coordinator of the Single Action Parents Network in England.[A] In the United States, the 2000 census showed 24.8 million, or nearly 24 percent of the nation's 105:5 million house-holds, were traditional two-parent homes.[B] Should single parents be afforded tax breaks to help pay for child care? Should employers be monitored to make sure flexible work-hours are offered?[C] Countries with increases in single-parent homes are often those where the nuclear family structure—just Mom, Dad and the kids—is more common than an extended, multigenerational family living under one roof, said demographer Martha Farnsworth Riche, a former Census Bureau director.[D] In the United Kingdom, lone-parent family homes increased from 3.3 percent of all households in 1990 to 5.5 percent in 1999, according to data compiled by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It did not specify whether children in those homes were younger than 18.[E] Some research suggests children raised in two-parent families are better off than those who rely on one.[F] Rates were relatively unchanged during the same period in Greece, Italy and Portugal. These countries tend to think more conservatively about family makeup, and there is more pressure to avoid divorce or unmarried parenthood, Riche said.[G] "Most of the research linking single-parenthood to children's school performance has been done with single nations," says Dr. Suet-ling Pong, associate professor of education and sociology and demography. "We do not know much about the impact of single parenthood across cultures and countries."

填空题{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} You are going to read a list of headings and a text about the law-making process of the united States. Choose a heading from the list A-G that best fits the meaning of each numbered part of the text. The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There are two extra headings which you do not need to use.A. Congressional Debate and Vote. B. Veto over Legislation of Bills. C. Committee Consideration. D. Counteracting a Presidential Veto. E. Passage in Both Chambers. F. Introduction of Bills. G. Functions of the Joint Committee. The U. S. Congress has exclusive authority to enact federal legislation. The process by which a proposed bill becomes a law can be very complex and take years. {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}Bills may originate in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, except that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives. Only Senators and Representatives (also known as Members of Congress) can introduce a bill in their respective chamber. When bills are introduced, they are given a bill number. The numbering system starts over with each session of Congress, and bill numbers run in chronological order according to when the bill is introduced. Bills in the House of Representatives are given the initial H. R. and Senate Bills are given the initial S. Thus, H. R. 1, would be the first bill introduced in a new session of Congress or the House of Representatives (a session of Congress lasts for two years). {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}After a bill is introduced, it is assigned to one or more committees in the chamber where it was introduced. A committee can amend, rewrite, recommend, or ignore the bill or report back to the full chamber with no recommendation. Committees typically also submit a report explaining their views of the bill when sending a bill to the full House or Senate. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}Once the bill moves to the "floor" of either the House of Representatives or the Senate (again depending on where the bill was introduced), the entire chamber debates and may amend the bill. It then takes an open vote on the bill. For noncontroversial votes, the chamber will take a voice vote, but if any legislator asks for a roll call, then each member's vote is made separately and publicly. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}If the bill passes the first chamber, it is sent to the other chamber where the process described above is repeated. If the bill is amended in the second chamber, it must be sent back to the first Chamber because both chambers must agree on the amendments. If the two chambers cannot immediately agree on how to pass identical legislation, the bill will be sent to a joint committee (comprised of both House of Representatives and Senate members), which will attempt to work out a compromise among the different versions of the bill. If the joint committee is successful, the bill will be returned to both chambersfor a vote. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}Once an identical bill passes both the House and the Senate, it is sent to the President who can do the following: (1) sign it and thus make it a law; (2) do nothing and after 10 days, if Congress stays in session, it becomes law; (3) do nothing and if Congress adjourns within 10 days, it does not become law; or (4) reject the bill by vetoing it and the bill will not become law unless the veto is overturned by Congress. Congress may overturn the President's veto by approving the bill again with at least a two thirds majority vote in both the House and the Senate. The bill then becomes a law despite the President's veto. The state legislatures act in much the same way, although the process for enacting a bill within the legislatures is often more streamlined. Every state legislature, except Nebraska's, has two chambers. Most governors have vetor Power over state legislation, analogous to the veto power of the President.

填空题Translate the following passage into Chinese．(广东外语外贸大学2009研，考试科目：英语写作与翻译)Modernization and economic development neither require nor produce cultural westernization. To the contrary, they promote resurgence of, and renewed commitment to, indigenous cultures. At the individual level, the movement of people into unfamiliar cities, social settings, and occupations breaks their traditional bonds, generates feelings of alienation, and creates crises of identity to which religion frequently provides an answer. At the societal level, modernization enhances the economic wealth and military power of the country as a whole and encourages people to have confidence in their heritage and to become culturally assertive.As a result, many non-Western societies have seen a return to indigenous cultures. It often takes a religious form, and the global revival of religion is a direct consequence of modernization. In non-Western societies this revival almost necessarily assumes an anti-Western cast, in some cases rejecting Western culture because it is Christian and subversive, in others because it is secular and degenerate. The return to the indigenous is most marked in Muslim and Asian societies.

填空题For better or______, religion is the only human endeavor that successfully provides us with an all-encompassing model of the pattern which connects our individual lives to the complex regularities of this world, and by extension of the cosmos.(bad)

填空题In traditional grammar, ______is the only word class which can function as a substitute for another item. (中山大学2006研)

填空题None of us like him because he thinks much more of others than of himself . A. because B. more C. of others D. of himself

填空题The ______ of the desks took them almost half an hour． 重新整理桌子花了他们几乎半个小时。

填空题Translate the following into English. 在大学，你要追随自己的激情和兴趣，选择自己感兴趣的课程，不要在乎别人怎么说或怎么想。SteveJobs说过，在大学里，你的热情会创造出很多点，在今后，你会将这些点串联起来。在一次毕业典礼上，Jobs来了一个献身说法：自己在大学期间修了看似毫无用处的书法，而10年后，这成了苹果Macintosh里漂亮字库的基础，而正因为Macintosh有了这么好的字库，后来才有了桌面出版和今天的办公软件(例如微软Office)。Jobs对书法的探索就是一个点，而苹果Macintosh把多个点联结成了一条线。所以，不要太担心你将来会从事什么样的工作，也不要太急功近利。尽兴地选择你的点吧，要有信念，当机缘来临之时，你会找到自己人生的使命并画出一条美丽的曲线。

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填空题There are many grounds for______, not about the idea of world order as such, but about the adequacy of defining it in polar terms.(skeptic)

填空题He was well over thirty before he {{U}}取得……资格{{/U}} a doctor.