填空题We all regard him as our betters .

填空题By the end of next month, we (find) ______ a good solution to the technical problem.

填空题New Year ______ on the 1st of January. (observe)

填空题Another meeting will be hold to further discuss how to resolve the problem once and for all.

填空题Do mobile phones cause explosions at petrol stations? That question has just been exhaustively answered by Adam Burgess, a researcher at the University of Kent, in England. Oddly, however, Dr Burgess is not a physicist, but a sociologist. For the concern rests not on scientific evidence of any danger, but is instead the result of sociological factors: it is an urban myth, supported and propagated by official sources, but no less a myth for that. Dr Burgess presented his findings this week at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association. Mobile phones started to become widespread in the late 1980s, when the oil industry was in the middle of a concerted safety drive, Dr Burgess notes. This was, in large part, a response to the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, when 167 people died in an explosion on an oil platform off the Scottish coast. (41) So nobody questioned the precautionary ban on the use of mobile phones at petrol stations. The worry was that an electrical spark might ignite explosive fumes. (42) But it was too late. The myth had taken hold. One problem, says Dr Burgess, is that the number of petrol-station fires increased in the late 1990s, just as mobile phones were proliferating. Richard Coates, BP's fire-safety adviser, investigated many of the 243 such fires that occurred around the world between 1993 and 2004. He concluded that most were indeed caused by sparks igniting petrol vapour, but the sparks themselves were the result of static electricity, not electrical equipment. Most drivers will have experienced a mild electric shock when climbing out of their vehicles. It is caused by friction between driver and seat, with the result that both end up electrically charged. When the driver touches the metal frame of the vehicle, the result is sometimes a spark. (43) (44) One e-mail contained fictitious examples of such explosions said to have happened in Indonesia and Australia: Another, supposedly sent out by Shell, found its way on to an internal website at Exxon, says Dr Burgess, where it was treated as authoritative by employees. Such memos generally explain static fires quite accurately, but mistakenly attribute them to mobile phones. Official denials, says Dr Burgess, simply inflame the suspicions of conspiracy theorists. (45) Warning signs abound in Britain, America, Canada and Australia. The city of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, introduced a ban last year. And, earlier this month, a member of Connecticut's senate proposed making the use of mobile phones in petrol stations in that state punishable by a $ 250 fine.[A] The safety drive did not apply merely to offshore operations: employees at some British oil-company offices are now required to use handrails while walking up and down stairs, for example.[B] As a result, the company had to pay a huge amount of compensation to the families of the victims and law suits concerning those fires seemed to be endless.[C] A further complication was the rise of the internet, where hoax memos, many claiming to originate from oil companies, warned of the danger of using mobile phones in petrol stations.[D] This is particularly noticeable in Britain. The country that led the way in banning mobile phones at petrol stations is also the country that has taken the strongest line on the safety of mobile-phone use by children.[E] Despite the lack of evidence that mobile phones can cause explosions, bans remain in place around the world, though the rules vary widely.[F] By the late 1990s, however, phone makers--having conducted their own research-- realized that there was no danger of phones causing explosions since they could not generate the required sparks.[G] This seems to have become more common as plastic car interiors, synthetic garments and rubber-soled shoes have proliferated.

填空题 Why would an animal want to cooperate with （1）? Behaviorists would say that animals cooperate they learn it is（2） to do so. This is true, but I don’t think it （3）enough. Gail Laule, speaks of Orky, a killer whale, she knew. “Of all the animals I’ve worked with, he was the most intelligent,” shi says. “ He would assess a situation and then do something based on the judgments he made.” Like the time he helped save a family member. When Orky’s mate, Corky, （4）, the baby did not thrive （5）, and keepers took the little whale out of the tank by stretcher for（6）. Things began to（7） when they returned the baby whale to the tank. As the workers halted the stretcher a few meters above the water, the baby suddenly began throwing up through its mouth. The keepers feared it would choke, but they could not reach the baby to help it. Apparently（8）the problem, Orky swam under the stretcher and allowed one of the men to stand on his head, something he’d never been trained（9）. Then, using his tail to keep steady, Orkly let the keeper reach up and release the （10）baby so that it could slide into the water within reach of help. 1. A、 human B、a human C、humen D、humane 2. A、 in their advantage B、in their interest C、for their interest D. for their advantage 3. A、 goes far B、is far from C、goes far from D、is far 4. A、 brought birth B、bore C、gave birth D、got born 5. A、 at first B、at the first C、first D、firstly 6. A、 emergent care B、emergent caring C、emergence care D、emergence caring 7. A、 break down B、go wrong C、break up D、go out 8. A、 working out B、sizing up C、looking into D、making clear 9. A、 to do it B、to C、of doing D、to do 10. A、420-pound B、420 pound C、420-pounds D、420 pounds

填空题Translate the following passage into English．(苏州大学2009研，考试科目：翻译与写作) 毛姆说：“莫泊桑是一位自然主义者，一味追求真实，而他所达到的真实，在今天看来未免有些肤浅……，这对莫泊桑带来的结果是人物刻画的简单化。”毛姆对莫泊桑的评论，虽然针对的是文学史上的个案，但对于经典作家作品的阅读、鉴赏和批评却有着普适性的意义。细读毛姆，首先让我们生出敬意的，是他对待文学经典的心态——以艺术至上为本位的科学分析态度。对莫氏，他既指出了其他作品致命弱点又对艺术技巧作出了恰如其分的很高的评价，而且充满了热情。 毛姆给我们的又一个重要启示，就是他的思辨方法——那是一种艺术哲学在批评实践中的具体而细微的体现。“没有十全十美的作家”、“经典作家的缺点，往往是他优点的补充”——这些话充满了艺术辩证法。这一点，对于曾经长期经受“左倾思维”、“大跃进思维”和“文革思维”影响的我们几代人来说，尤其显得重要。是啊，我们公正的回望巴尔扎克、托尔斯泰、梅里美、曹雪芹、鲁迅等伟大作家，他们的缺点(有些只能说是特点)，不正是其优点的延长和补充吗?

填空题Joe: Could I speak to Anna7Ann:______

填空题There were beautiful clothes ______ (display) in the shop windows.

填空题Tender(Bid) Award Submission Bid Bond

填空题Monopolies in industries like railways and various u______ need breaking up.

填空题Scientists had until very recently believed that there were around 100,000 human genes, available to make each and every one of us in our splendid diversity. 41) __________. So that grand panjandrum, the human, may not manage to boast twice as many genes as that microscopic nowhere—worm, with its 18,000 genes, the nematode. Even the fruit fly, considered so negligible that even the most extreme of animal rights activists don't kick up a fuss about its extensive use in genetic experimentation, has 16,000 genes. 42) __________. Without understanding in the least what the scientific implications of this discovery might be, anybody with the smallest curiosity about people—and that's pretty much all of us—can see that it is pretty significant. 43) __________. Human complexity, on this information, can he Best explained in the manner it looks to be best explained before scientific evidence becomes involved at all. In other words, in the nature versus nurture debate, the answer, thankfully, is "both". 44) __________. Nurture does have a huge part to play in human destiny. Love can transform humans. Trust can make a difference. Second chances are worth trying. Life, to a far greater extent than science thought up until now, is what we make it. One day we may know exactly what we can alter and what we cannot. Knowing that there is a great deal that we can alter or improve, as well as a great deal that we must accept and value for its own sake, makes the human journey progressive rather than deterministic, complex and open, rather than simple and unchangeable. For no one can suggest that 30,000 genes doesnt't give the human race much room for manoeuver. Look how many tunes, after all, we're able to squeeze out of eight notes. But it surely must give the lie to the rather sinister belief that has been gaining credence in the West that there is a hardwired, no-prisoners-taken, gene for absolutely everything and that whole sections of the population can be labelled as "stupid" or "lazy" or "criminal" or somehow or other sub-human. 45) __________.[A] Instead, like the eight notes which can only make music (albeit in astounding diversity), the 30,000 genes can only make people. The rest is up to us.[B] Now, the two rival teams decoding the book life, have each found that instead there are only somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 genes.[C] There's nothing wrong with our genes: it's that our modern food supply has given us far too many calories and far more food processing than our bodies evolved to handle.[D] The most obvious conclusion to be drawn from the limited number of genes available to programme a human is that biological deternination goes so far and no further.[E] Why is this so important? Because it should mean that we can accept one another's differences more easily, and help each other when appropriate.[F] Some genes were identified in both of the previous studies, which made the researchers feel pretty sure that they were indeed looking at a gene.[G] Not for the first time it has to be admitted that it's a funny old world, and that we humans are the beings who make it such.

填空题Were ______ a position to take good care Of your import business as a buying agent．

填空题There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace—those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

填空题{{U}}If the situation goes worse{{/U}}, a serious problem may come up.

填空题In terms of sociolinguistics, ______is sometimes used to refer to the whole of a person"s language.