填空题______ is the first step in signing a contract.

填空题A. What's the matter?B. I'm sorry to hear that.C. He simply hates me.D. Anyway, cheer up!E. Yeah, but it's very hard to find jobs now.F. I'm all right.G. Let me alone.H. How are you?Sarah: You look sad, Bill. (56) Bill: I quarreled with my boss this morning. He almost drove me mad.Sarah: That's too bad. Why was that?Bill: (57) And I'm under a lot of pressure.Sarah: (58) But things will get better.Bill: Yeah.Sarah: Have you considered a change of scenery?Bill: (59) Sarah: It's true. (60) Bill: I will. Thank you.

填空题The typical picture of a corporate highflier is someone who survives on very little sleep. He or she rises when it is still dark, works late and is still answering emails at two o" clock in the morning. Such people do exist, of course. The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for example, was famous for operating on a few hours" sleep. Some entrepreneurs and Wall Street traders seem to follow suit. But if you think you need to do the same thing to get ahead, think again. A growing body of research is finding that, on the contrary, those who get a good night"s sleep are usually more productive at work. That"s because sleep doesn"t just rest the brain, say medical specialists. It allows the brain to perform vital maintenance and restoration tasks. Brains that get too little sleep simply cannot perform as well as those that are rested. "There"s no doubt that sleep deprivation affects job performance," says the Detroit Medical Center"s Safwan Badr. "The evidence is compelling that when you do not get enough sleep ... you are not as productive." Investors should also take heed: Numerous studies have found that those running on too little sleep tend to make poorer investment decisions and take needless risks as well. Charles Czeisler, a sleep specialist at Brigham you"ll see similar effects if you simply sleep too little each night over time. For the first time, new research has attempted to put some numbers on the link between more Zzzs and more Benjamins. Matthew Gibson, graduate researcher in the economics department of the University of California, San Diego, compared wage data with sleep times recorded in the U.S. Census Bureau"s American Time Use Survey. His conclusion: For those who are sleeping too little, "a onehour increase in longrun average sleep increases wages by 16%, equivalent to more than a year of schooling." Adults need eight hours of sleep on average, experts say. There is some variation between individuals. But when we are tired, we find it much harder to think innovatively and to make creative leaps, say researchers. We find it harder to adapt our thinking to new information or to learn new lessons. Consider: At England"s Loughborough University in 1999, researchers Yvonne Harrison tested the effects of sleep deprivation on a small group of healthy young participants. They were given complex business-situation tasks in the form of a game, as well as some critical reading tasks. Those who went short on sleep were able to keep up with the reading, they found. But when it came to the complex game, "their play collapsed," they Reported. A．agrees that sleep deprivation brings bad effects to investment. B．holds that adults need an average of 8 hours" sleep. C．believes that lack of sleep diminishes your performance. D．thinks it is difficult for people lacking sleep to take up creative work. E．points out the relation between sleep time and American dollars. F．is well known for very little sleep. G．maintains that sleep can rest the brain, and let the brain do other important tasks.

填空题______is the term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between a particular style of language and its context of use.

填空题India gained ______ from Britain in 1947． 1947年印度脱离英国统治获得独立。

填空题with the view of, out, draw your attention to, in, requested, somewhat, somehow, that, conform to, avoid, turn out, make out Dear Sirs, We thank you for your telegram duplicating your order of October 12 for 500 doz．Rubber Shoes. Although the prevailing quotations are (1) higher, we win accept the order on the same terms as before (2) encouraging business. As (3) in your previous letter, we have made (4) our Sales Confirmation No．300 (5) duplicate and shall thank you to send back one copy duly countersigned. We are glad to know that a letter of credit will be established in our favour immediately．However we would like to (6) the fact (7) the stipulations in the relative credit should strictly (8) the terms in our sales confirmation in order to (9) subsequent cable amendments. We appreciate your cooperation and trust that the shipment which is to be dispatched after receipt of the relative letter of credit, will (10) to your entire satisfaction.Yours faithfully,

填空题Translate the following passages into Chinese and write your translation on the answer sheet．(北京外国语大学2010研，考试科目：翻译理论与实践)An effort on the scale of the Apollo mission that sent men to the Moon is needed if humanity is to have a fighting chance of surviving the ravages of climate change. The stakes are high, as, without sustainable growth, "billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilization will collapse". This is the stark warning from the biggest single report to look at the future of the planet. According to the report, the effects of climate change are worsening—by 2025 there could be three billion people without adequate water as the population rises still further. And massive urbanization, increased encroachment on animal territory, and concentrated livestock production could trigger new pandemics.Nevertheless, there are answers to our global challenges although decisions are still not being made on the scale necessary to address them. Three great transitions would help both the world economy and its natural environment— to shift as much as possible from freshwater agriculture to saltwater agriculture: produce healthier meat without the need to grow animals: and replace gasoline cars with electric cars.(Excerpt from The Planet"s Future by Jonathan Owen)

填空题Not paying attention to anything his colleagues say, he ______ (frequency) doesn't know what's happening in the company.

填空题The insurance under the PICC Ocean Marine Cargo Clauses is classified into three conditions: ______, ______ and ______.

填空题 Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. In most cultures, when you meet acquaintances for the first time during a day, it is normal to greet them. The main purpose of this greeting is to (1)（ ） a good relationship between the people (2)（ ）, and each language usually has (3)（ ） set phrases that can be used for this purpose. Sometimes, though, there can be considerable (4)（ ） in the type of phrases that can be used, and (5)（ ） misunderstandings can easily arise. The following is a true story. A young British woman went to Hong Kong to work, and at the (6)（ ） of her arrival she knew (7)（ ） about the Chinese culture or language. (8)（ ） her way to school one day, she went to the bank to get some money. To her surprise, the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch before she went to the bank. She was extremely surprised at (9)（ ） question because in the British culture it would be regarded as an indirect (10)（ ） to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also show the young man's interested in (11)（ ） the girl. Since this bank clerk was a complete stranger (12)（ ） the British girl, she was very much surprised. After a moment she answered that she had already eaten quickly. Then she went on her way to her school and was even more surprised when one of the teachers asked her the (13)（ ） question. By now she realized that it could not be an invitation, (14)（ ） was confused why they all asked this question. In the following days she was asked the same question again and again, and she spent hours trying to explain (15)（ ） why so many people kept asking her this. (16)（ ）, she came to a conclusion: The people who (17)（ ） inquiring her about the same thing must be concerned about her (18)（ ）. She was somewhat underweight at the time, and so she concluded they must be worrying that she was not (19)（ ） very well! Only much later (20)（ ） that the question had no real sense at all—it was only a greeting. 1.A、build onB、build upC、build outD、build into 2.A、concernB、concerningC、concernedD、to concern 3.A、the number ofB、the amount ofC、an amount ofD、a number of 4.A、differencesB、similaritiesC、likelihoodD、changes 5.A、parentalB、politicalC、culturalD、musical 6.A、instantB、momentC、periodD、time 7.A、everythingB、anythingC、nothingD、something 8.A、InB、ByC、OnD、With 9.A、thatB、suchC、whichD、so 10.A、determinationB、informationC、impressionD、invitation 11.A、phoningB、hopingC、datingD、inviting 12.A、toB、forC、withD、without 13.A、sameB、curiousC、differentD、amused 14.A、andB、thenC、soD、but 15.A、with regardsB、as toC、as ifD、as soon as 16.A、In the endB、In the wayC、In a wayD、At the end 17.A、areB、have beenC、wereD、has been 18.A、cultureB、problemC、salaryD、health 19.A、thinkingB、sleepingC、laughingD、eating 20.A、she discoveredB、she did discoverC、did she discoverD、does she discover

填空题The residential area is surrounded by restaurants and people have to endure the no______ of loud music, particularly disco-type music.

填空题Della wanted to buy Jim something fine and rare —something worthy of the honor of owned by Jim. A. something B. fine and rare C. worthy of D. owned

填空题Between 5,000 million and 4,000 million years ago the Earth was formed, By 3,000 million years ago life had arisen and we have fossils of microscopic bacteria-like creatures to prove it. (66) Nobody knows what happened, but theorists agree that the key was the spontaneous arising of self-replicating entities, i. e. something equivalent to "genes" in the general sense. The atmosphere of the early Earth probably contained gases still abundant today on other planets in the solar system. Chemists have experimentally reconstructed these ancient conditions in the laboratory. If plausible gases are mixed in a flask with water, and energy is added by an electric discharge (simulated lightning), organic sub-stances are spontaneously synthesized. These include the building blocks of RNA and DNA. It seems probable that something like this happened on the early Earth. Consequently, the sea would have become a "soup" of prebiological organic compounds. (67) Today the most famous self-replicating molecule is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but it is widely thought that DNA itself could not have been present at the origin of life because its replication is too dependent on support from specialized machinery, which could not have been available before evolution itself began. DNA has been described as a" high-tech" molecule which probably arose some time after the origin of life itself. Perhaps the related molecule RNA, which still plays various vital roles in living cells, was the original self-replicating molecule. Or perhaps the primordial replicator was a different kind of molecule altogether. (68) Variants that were particularly good at replication would automatically have come to predominate in the primeval soup. Varieties that did not replicate, or that did so inaccurately, would have become relatively less numerous. This led to ever-increasing efficiency among replicating molecules. As the competition between replicating molecules warmed up, success must have gone to the ones: hat happened to hit upon special tricks or devices for their own self-preservation and their own rapid replication. The rest of evolution may be regarded as a continuation of the natural selection of replicator molecules, now called genes, by virtue of their capacity to build for themselves efficient devices (cells and multicellular bodies) for their own preservation and reproduction. (69) Fossils were not laid down on more than a small scale until the Cambrian era, nearly 600 million years ago. The first vertebrates may date back 530 million years, according to fossil evidence--primitive, lawless fishes with fins, gills, and fish-like muscle patterns--found in China in 1999. Vertebrates appear abundantly in fossil beds between 300 and 400 million years ago. (70) Mammals and, later, birds, arose from two different branches of reptiles. The rapid divergence of mammals into the rich variety of types that we see today, from opossums to elephants, from anteaters to monkeys, seems to have been unleashed into the vacuum left by the catastrophic extinction of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.A. Among vertebrates, the land was first colonized by lobe-finned and lung-bearing fish about 250 million years ago, then by amphibians and, in more thoroughgoing fashion, by various kinds of animals that we loosely lump together as reptiles.B. Once self-replicating molecules had been formed by chance, something like Darwinian natural selection could have begun: variation would have come into the population because of random errors in copying.C. It is not enough, of course, that organic molecules appeared in the primeval soup. The crucial step, as noted above, was the origin of self-replicating molecules, molecules capable of copying themselves.D. Although we naturally emphasize the evolution of our own kind--the vertebrates, the mammals, and the primates--these constitute only a small branch of the great tree of life.E. Three thousand million years is a long time, and it seems to have been long enough to have produced such astonishingly complex contrivances as the vertebrate body and the insect body.F. Some time between these two dates--independent molecular evidence suggests about 4,000 million years ago--that mysterious event, the origin of life, must have occurre

填空题[A] Share the Responsibility [B] Keep Your Receipts [C] Cut Bad Habits [D] Balance Your Checkbook [E] Remain Flexible [F] Pay Down Debt [G] Focus on Savings You have a big expense coming up. You need a better car, or a bigger home, or you want to go back to college. What do you do? Borrow, borrow, borrow——right? Well, maybe not. If you"ve created a budget, you know exactly how much money you have coming in, and how much is going out. You can make some plans concerning that big expense. But if you don"t have a budget plan, you probably don"t have a very good picture of your finances, and you may be tempted to borrow more money rather than squeezing all you can from your income. It"s definitely better in the long run——for you and for your money——to have a budget. 41.______ By now, you"ve set up your budget. You know how much money you have. But you could still use some help staying on budget. Here are some tips that can help you stick to your budget and get ahead on that major purchase. Determine the amount of your budget that you can afford to save each month. Have it direct-deposited to your savings account, or to your mutual fund. Wherever you decide to keep your savings, make sure you put money into it every month. That savings will make a big difference for you later. 42. ______ Whether it"s alcohol or tobacco, if you use much of either, you know how expensive bad habits can be. Stop smoking and drinking, and put the beer/cigarette money toward your other expenses. You"ll see your bills come down——and feel your health improve——in no time. You"ll also save on health care expenses down the road, and you may become eligible for lower insurance premiums. 43.______ Make sure you"re not the only member of your household concerned about your budget. If you"re working hard to save money, but your spouse is out spending you into debt, you"re fighting a losing battle. Sit down together and make a plan to determine how much spending money you should each have. Then, check in every week to see how well you"re doing. If the entire family shares the responsibility for the budget, everyone can cut back just a little and make a big difference. One person shouldn"t have to shoulder the entire burden alone. 44.______ If you have credit card debt, you may feel like it"s going to take forever to pay it off. But you can get ahead by choosing one card——ideally, the one with the highest interest rate—— and paying as much as you can on it every month. If you have other cards, pay the minimum balance on those until you"ve paid off the first card. Then, choose the next card and pay extra on it while you pay minimums on the others. If you pay only the minimums on all your cards, you"ll be paying a lot more in interest than you may realize. 45.______ You probably monitored your expenses for several weeks to make a budget. Once the budget is made, though, it can be tempting to stop keeping up with every little expense. But keeping track really can help you stick to your budget. Save your receipts, and write down the places you spend money. You"ll be less likely to overspend if you realize how much money has actually gone through your hands.

填空题 {{U}}Each day, 50, 000 shiny, fire-engine-red Gala apples work the way through a sprawling factory in Swedesboro, N. J.{{/U}} (87) {{U}}Inside, 26 machines wash them, core them, peel them, seed them, slice them, chill them.{{/U}} At the end of the line, (88) {{U}}they are dunked in a solution of calcium ascorbate and now deposited into little green bags featuring a jogging Ronald McDonald.{{/U}} From there, (89) {{U}}the bags make their way in refrigerated trucks to refrigerated containers in distribution centers, then to thousand of McDonald's restaurants up and down the Eastern Seaboard.{{/U}} (90) {{U}}No more than 14 days before leaving the plant, the fruit will take the place of French fries in some child's Happy Meal{{/U}}. The apple slices, called Apple Dippers, are a symbol of how McDonald's is trying to offer healthier food to its customers (91) {{U}}and to answer the many critics who contend that most of its menu is poor nutritional quality.{{/U}} (92) {{U}}McDonald's has also not introduced a variety of "premium" salads, which will soon be joined by a salad of grapes, walnuts--and, of course, apples.{{/U}} (93) {{U}}Yet it still remains to be seen these new offerings will assuage the concerns of public health officials and other critics{{/U}} of McDonald's highly processed fat and calorieladen sandwiches, drinks and fries. (94) {{U}}So far, however, they have not--at least not have entirely.{{/U}} But this much is already clear: just as its staple meals of burger and fries have made McDonald's the largest single buyer of beef and potatoes in the country, (95) {{U}}its new focus on fresh fruits and vegetables is making the company a minor player on $ 80 billion American produce industry.{{/U}}