填空题Why do you insist on (leave) ______ your dirty clothes all over the floor?

填空题Most people can identify their top priority at work. Generally, it will be the part of the job that is most productive for their employer: for a merger and acquisitions banker, it could be landing a big deal for a client; for a lorry driver, the punctual delivery of an important consignment; for a hospital doctor or nurse, giving vital treatment to a patient. But every job is ringed with secondary tasks—the routine but critical stuff covered by codes and guidelines. If such chores are neglected, the consequences may undermine overall success. New research suggests tired workers in demanding jobs start giving up doing those small, but vital, tasks remarkably quickly. Peter Thiel, the entrepreneur, wrote in the FT last week that computers "excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments". In other words, humans are not redundant. But the flesh-and-blood workers who remain now have greater responsibility for more important tasks. If companies pile more work on to them, these weary employees could inadvertently plunge them into disaster. It is a truism that a tired worker is less productive than a fresh one. But researchers at Wharton business schools have shown that compliance with routine tasks can fall away within one heavy shift. Their study"s focus was hand hygiene, healthcare"s mundane but powerful weapon against cross-infection. Such is the importance of sanitisation—when done thoroughly, it can reduce infection by the MRSA "superbug" by 95 percent—that hospitals have started to monitor compliance, using electronic tags in sanitisers and workers" badges. Each time a member of staff skips the sanitiser, the omission is logged. The extraordinarily rich anonymised information from such a system is a treasure trove for big data researchers such as Wharton"s Katherine Milkman. Analysing 13.8 million "unique hand hygiene opportunities" for more than 4,000 staff at 35 hospitals, she and her co-authors found that over a 12-hour shift compliance by an average staff member fell by 8.5 percentage points. Lax handwashing, they suggest, could be costing $25 billion annually in treatment of unnecessary infection in the US—and leading to 70,000 needless deaths. As Prof. Milkman explained to me last week, the fact that intense work makes it harder to do less important tasks could have profound implications in other walks of life. The study points out that "these deviations pose a threat to the wellbeing of organizations, employees and clients, because such violations can reduce the quality of products produced and services provided as well as creating an unsafe work environment". Suddenly, it is a little clearer why the exhausted M&A banker skips parts of the ethical code her bank insists on, or why the tired lorry driver jumps the lights to make it to the depot on time. The work could offer clues about how to make sure the steeplejack always checks his harness, even on the final ascent of the skyscraper, and the weary journalist reads through her story for possible errors on deadline. A．humans are not needed any more in computer age. B．the abundant anonymised information from the system. C．weary workers are likely to stop doing small but important things. D．intense work makes it harder to do some important work. E．how to make people reduce mistakes in routine work. F．the efficiency of workers will fall away in a heavy shift. G．tired workers could inadvertently plunge their company into disaster.

填空题After a brief thunderstorm，the sun emerged ______ the clouds． 短暂的雷雨过后，太阳从云后面出来了。

填空题We don't see or hear them, but every day they quietly go about their work--filtering and cleansing our rivers and streams. And if we don't act soon, they'll disappear from the workforce just when we need them most. I am talking about pigtoes, monkeyface, pink heelsplitter and purple wartyback--freshwater mussels (贻贝) with funny names that belie the seriousness of their labors. (41) . One mussel alone can cleanse as much as a gallon of water per hour. Add up the work of a whole mussel community, and you get a virtual water treatment plant. According to Ethan Nedeau, an expert on the freshwater mussels of New England, even half the population of mussels at work in a one-half mile segment of New Hampshire's Ashuelot River can help cleanse more than 11.2 million gallons of water a day--roughly the quantity of household water used by 112 000 people. (42) . Today 69 percent of US freshwater mussel species are to some degree at risk of extinction or already extinct. The most diverse assemblage of freshwater mussels ever known was located in the middle stretch of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. Before the damming of the river in the early 1900s, 69 mussel species had been spotted in this reach; 32 of them have apparently disappeared, with no recording sightings in nearly a century. (43) . Like many freshwater mussels, the orange-nacre mucket has a fascinating life cycle and exhibits some of the most sophisticated mimicry in the animal kingdom. The females essentially use their offspring to lure fish into helping them colonize new stream bottoms. They package their larvae (幼虫) at the end of jelly--like tubes that can extend eight feet out into the water. To fish swimming by, the larvae dancing in the riffles of the river current looks like a tasty minnow. When the fish bites, the tube breaks, releasing the larvae into the stream. A few of the offspring attach to the fish's gills and hitchhike around with their firmed host for a week or two, absorbing nutrients and growing along the way. (44) . Along with 16 other threatened or endangered mussel species in the Mobile watershed, the orange-nacre mucket is at risk of extinction--in large part due to excessive pollution and dams that have diminished the river habitat they need to survive. To me, the loss of such industrious, fascinating creatures diminishes more than our water quality-- it diminishes our natural heritage and our world. (45) . So as we celebrate World Water Day, I hope we also celebrate the freshwater mussels that help keep our waters clean and healthy--and commit to efforts to conserve them.[A] My favorite freshwater mussel is the orange-nacre mucket, found only in the rivers and streams of Alabama's Mobile River basin.[B] The United States ranks first in the world in the number of known species of freshwater mussels 292, com- pared with just 10 in all of Europe. But we're losing these "living filters" all too fast.[C] Only habitat improvements, in some cases combined with mussel breeding and release efforts, can save these and the other 200 freshwater mussel species at risk nationwide.[D] Because I bet we'll miss these little creatures with the whimsical names when they're gone.[E] They suck water in, filter out bits of algae, bacteria and other tiny particles, and then release it back to the river cleaner than before.[F] Finally, the young mussels drop off, float to the river bottom, and colonize new territory--and before long begin their vital task of water purification.[G] It is our responsibility to take actions to protect the freshwater mussels, otherwise they will disappear in the future and the water will not be refreshed.

填空题 China saw a great ______ (agriculture) development in 2004 owing to the right policy.

填空题There was a feeling of disappointment and de______ in the office when the news of job cuts was announced.

填空题Taking the form of soliloquy,____by T. S. Eliot depicts a timid middle-aged man going (or thinking of going) to propose marriage to a lady but hesitating all the time.

填空题细娃盼过年，大人盼开春。儿时，对于大人的盼是不能理解的，但过年，对我来说，可是一年的大盼头了。过年，不但好玩，且有肉吃。那气氛是迷人的。年一过，又盼日子快些流，好流来又一个春节。 在盼中，日子真的流得飞快，转眼上了小学，继而中学，然后高中，最后大学；盼的欲望更加强烈，盼的内容也越渐丰富了：盼有好成绩毕业，盼有一份好工作，盼事业有成，盼挣钱替父母分忧，盼有一个好爱人……不知不觉，天天踩着盼的石阶而上，自己竟成了一个大男人，一个挣钱养家糊口的忙碌人了。

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填空题I have been sent here by the American Shipping Company to talk with you about transportation．

填空题When he arrived in that country, he found that {{U}}there were few occasions to speak Chinese{{/U}}.

填空题{{U}}众所周知{{/U}}, the Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific Ocean.

填空题A. Pick up the local paper B. Save from the first place C. Use a guidebook—your own D. Pick up the phone E. Choose cheap countries F. Download magazines from web G. Splurge when it matters You"ve mastered the art of modern-travel savings: Your airfare alerts are set up on Kayak; you flit around Europe on cheap carriers like EasyJet. You stay in apartments rented through Airbnb. You could probably shave a few more cents off travel costs by downloading five new apps and bookmarking 10 new sites. But real savings will come to those who go retro by stepping away from the screen, or using it differently, to find old-fashioned tactics that can save you big. Here are some old-school tips for getting the most out of your travel buck. 1 We think we can get everything done online these days, but sometimes a simple phone call is your best bet for saving money. Speak with an innkeeper and learn of potential discounts on extended stays or information on how to get there from the airport by public transit. Contact the specific location where you"ll pick up your rental car and reserve a compact to avoid getting "upgraded" to a bigger vehicle that will increase (sometimes even double) your gas costs. Call travel agencies that strike special deals with airlines to get your prices below anything you"ll find online. 2 Goodbye Norway, hello Bolivia. Or as a blogger put it, "Cheapest dorm bed in Zurich-nice room in Bangkok." Extrapolate that to tour guides, museum entries, food and more, and the savings start to add up. Of course, keep in mind how much it will cost you to get there in the first place. Luckily, a lot of the cheaper countries are also cheap to fly to; another blogger put together a list of 10 "Cheap Places to Travel on the U.S. Dollar," which includes Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, Hungary and Romania. 3 Most travelers will never be across-the-board cheapskates. Street food, nosebleed-theater seats and bunk beds are not for everyone. But you don"t have to be a purist. For each trip, decide on a themed "waste" or two—transportation, food, arts, lodging—and save on the rest. 4 No listings are more up-to-the-minute than Friday arts supplements, alternative weeklies or the local editions of Time Out magazine. Get them on actual paper while they last. You"ll not only find the nontouristy scene laid out for you in one handy package, but often come across coupons or specials you certainly won" t find on Yelp. 5 I still carry a travel guide around when I travel—as backup, if nothing else. But those books are pricey, and there"s so much free information online that, with a little copying and pasting (and printing out), you can come pretty close to matching them with your own bespoke travel guide. So, in a retro twist, no Wi-Fi needed.

填空题This boy is very intelligent，but his lack of ______ prevents his success． 这个男孩子非常聪明，但胸无大志阻碍了他成大器。

填空题Developmental errors are errors within the target language itself, such as o______.

填空题Bob: ______ ．Kelly: I would like to visit the country again.

填空题They gave up their efforts to look for survivors(幸存者) Uafter determining that all people in the sunken ship had died/U.