填空题Today, I’m delighted to announce the opening of our new branch in this neighborhood. We hope we’ll be able to meet the demands of the local【T1】________You’ll notice that the branch is staffed by local people because we feel they’ll have more【T2】________ of your particular needs. We have extended our【T3】________ because this has been one of the suggestions we have been given. So whether you are an early riser or you work late, we will be able to meet your particular【T4】________ Our aim is to serve you, the local people, locally. I promise you that offering a(n)【T5】________ is always our top priority. 音频同上

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. Not only can the computer gather facts, it can also store them as faster as they are gathered and can pour them out (1)（ ） they are needed. The computer is really a high-powered (2)（ ） machine that “has all the answers” or (3)（ ） all. What is the most efficient (4)（ ）for driving a car (5)（ ）the New York–New Jersey tunnels? What (6)（ ）of canned goods is (7)（ ）in a particular supermarket? What kind of weather will we have tomorrow? The computer will flash out the (8)（ ）in a fraction of a second. (9)（ ）gathering and storing information, the computer can also solve complicated problems that once (10)（ ）months for people to do. For example, (11)（ ）16 hours an electronic brain (12)（ ）CHEOPS solved a difficult design problem. (13)（ ）, it was fed all the information (14)（ ）for designing a chemical plant. After running through 16,000 (15)（ ）designs, it picked out the plan for the plant (16)（ ）would produce the most chemical (17)（ ）the lowest cost. (18)（ ）it issued a printed set of exact specifications. Before CHEOPS solved this problem, a team of engineers having the same information (19)（ ）worked for a year to produce only three designs, (20)（ ）of which was as efficient as the computer’s. 1.A、whateverB、wheneverC、whoeverD、whomever 2.A、“memory”B、“thinking”C、“talking”D、“learning” 3.A、nearB、closeC、mostD、almost 4.A、rateB、ratioC、speedD、pace 5.A、throughB、overC、byD、for 6.A、tapeB、brandC、styleD、species 7.A、popularerB、the popularestC、most popularD、the most popular 8.A、numbersB、articlesC、answersD、motions 9.A、BesideB、BesidesC、ExceptD、In addition 10.A、spentB、neededC、occupiedD、took 11.A、withB、withinC、forD、beyond 12.A、namedB、namingC、callingD、in name 13.A、At firstB、First of allC、Above allD、First 14.A、demandingB、requiringC、necessaryD、good 15.A、possibleB、likelyC、seemingD、impossible 16.A、itB、whatC、whoD、that 17.A、inB、atC、byD、to 18.A、AfterB、BeforeC、AfterwardsD、Then 19.A、haveB、hasC、hadD、/ 20.A、noneB、no oneC、nothingD、nobody

填空题 She came into the room and, ______ her great embarrassment， found her boyfriend sitting on a sofa half-nakeD、

填空题HERE'S A TALE OF TWO COMPANIES. Both are foreign owned, both are embroiled in scandals are foreign owned, both are embroiled in scandals involving allegations of sexual harassment. Company A is confronted with the problem and punishes top execs. Company B stonewalls and mounts an aggressive campaign to discredit its accusers and portray itself as a victim of corporate slander. (41) For business schools looking for a few good case studies in damage control, last week was about as good as it gets. One was Swedish pharmaceuticals company Astra USA, a maker of asthma medications and the popular anesthetic Xylocaine. Facing similar charges, Mitsubishi Motor manufacturing of America opted for in your-face denial. Who did it right? It's too soon to know for sure. Astra's strategy may seem smarter. Financially speaking, at least, one can see why Mitsubishi is reluctant to issue a public mea culpa. Fessing up could expose it to as much as $ 200 million in damages. Such controversies are no rarity these days. The Equal Employment Opportunity commission alone received more than 15, 000 complaints of sexual harassment last year, more than twice as many as in 1991. Its suit against Mitsubishi, filed last month, may turn out to be by far the biggest ever—and could eventually involve as many as two thirds of the company's 900 female workers. (42) Mitsubishi's response was clear from the beginning. When the EEOC announced its case against the Illinois automaker, the company dispatched busloads of workers to picket the agency's Chicago offices. Attorneys for Mitsubishi will no doubt probe the private lives of the women lodging complaints, and may even accuse them of "Japanbashing." Mitsubishi's brass in Tokyo seemed a bit taken aback by the ferocity of the counteroffensive, to the point of suggesting that maybe the case could be quietly settled. (43)Could such tactics be effective? If aggressive PR makes people doubt the allegations against the company, or encourages federal investigators to settle on more favorable terms, then the strategy will have succeeded. But there are risks, especially for consumer companies like Mitsubishi. (44) That's no small threat, considering that Mitsubishi is struggling to turn a profit in this country. (45)Astra's strategy seems savier. Its openness and prompt response might help it evade punitive damages, should any of the complaints go to a jury. In fact, that may be a chief reason the company acted even before it completed its own investigation. That said, Astra is in the soup to begin with because it had no adequate mechanisms for reporting incidents, and because it failed to deal with its problems before they became public. Women have complained of harassment at the company for more than a decade. Business Week reports incidents ranging from gropings at company retreats to suggestions that female sales reps could advance their careers by putting out sexually for their bosses—including the head of the company, Lars Bildman. (His lawyer denies the allegations, as do the other executives.) So far, Astra itself has offered no evidence suggesting any of the three are guilty. Both companies now promise to do better. Astra is overhauling its corporate personnel policies and plans to train managers on how to handle issues of sexual discrimination. So is Mitsubishi. Says the automaker's general counsel Gary Shultz: "We are going to become the model in handing sexual-harassment and-discrimination cases." That remains to be seen. If these sorts of scandals force companies to set up rules that actually work, that may be the best case study of all.[A] That's precisely what the company did in response to a prior sexual-harassment suit filed by 29 women in 1994.[B] "A great deal of attention should be paid to these affairs." Says Mitsubishis's spokesman.[C] But "we're taking these allegations very seriously," says Astra spokesman Benjamin Kincannon.[D] Outraged by the automaker's seeming disregard of its problems, perennial presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson and the National Organization for Women called on car buyers to boycott the company.[E] When business Week published tales of wide-ranging abuse at Astra's American subsidiary, outside Boston, the company quickly faced up to the problem and suspended its U. S. chief executive, along with two top lieutenants.[F] Prof. Martin Stoller, a crisis-management expert at Northwestern University, thinks so. "The aim of crisis management is to stop the attackers," he says.

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填空题I could go myself but I would sooner you go .

填空题If I worked with him last year, I would have got on very well with him.

填空题(Among) all the poems I have read recently, Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Trust" (seems) the most relevant (to) our (times). A. Among B. seems C. to D. times

填空题Peter: ______. I need to talk to him about the Nuovo line, it's urgent. Frank: Could you repeat the number please?

填空题John Donnes famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of ________

填空题Joe: How are you getting along in math class? Jane: ______

填空题Built in 1998 by a small group of passionate education and tech professionals, Tutor, com offers one-to-one learning solutions for students through educational institutions and public and state libraries as well as through corporations for employee benefits and workforce development. We connect learners with qualified, expert tutors online, on-demand, 24/7/361. We provide tutoring services in more than 200 academic subjects and test preparation areas in an engaging and uplifting learning environment. Our core philosophy is that when a learner needs help, the best way to get it is right away from an experienced expert. Our experts are online 24/7, ready to help. Our mission is to help every learner first realize and then reach their full potential. The results; more than 18 million one-to-one sessions served. 97% of the students, teachers, and professionals who use Tutor, corn’s services would recommend us to a friend, while 98% of our post-session survey respondents are glad their institution offers Tutor. com. Today, we work with thousands of educational institutions and education-forward corporations to deliver more than one million tutoring, homework help, and test preparation sessions per year. Tutor. Com Building time: 1998 Founders: education and【R1】________ Purposes: 1) offering one-to-one learning solutions; 2) connecting learners with qualified, expert tutors online, on-demand, 24/7/361 Core philosophy: best way for learners to get help is right away from【R2】________ Mission: helping every learner first realize and then reach【R3】________ Results: 1) more than 18 million【R4】________ served; 2) 97% of users would recommend us to a friend; 3)【R5】________ of post-session survey respondents welcome Tutor.com.

填空题提示：Alice来看望Bill。他们有一年未见。Alice说她三天前才到，要在此地待一个月。Bill说，说实在的，他很想念Alice，并邀请她喝咖啡。 Bill: Come in, please. Alice: Thank you. Bill: (51) . How have you been lately? Alice: Very well. And you? Bill: I'm well, too. Alice: (52) . I just drop in on you. Bill: It's very kind of you. (53) , I miss you very much. Alice: So do I. Bill: (54) ? Alice: No, thanks. I'll have an appointment at four, and I've got to go. Bill: Must you go so soon? Alice: (55) . I'll surely visit you again.

填空题为了安全起见,车上每个人都必须系上安全带. (for the sake of).

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 tile 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The first and smallest unit that can be discussed in relation to language is the word. In speaking, the choice of words is 【B1】 the utmost importance. Proper selection will eliminate one source of 【B2】 breakdown in the communication cycle. Too often, careless use of words 【B3】 a meeting of the minds of the speaker and listener. The words used by the speaker may 【B4】 unfavorable reactions in the listener 【B5】 interfere with his comprehension; hence, the transmission-reception system breaks down. 【B6】 , inaccurate or indefinite words may make 【B7】 difficult for the listener to understand the 【B8】 which is being transmitted to him. The speaker who does not have specific words in his working vocabulary may be 【B9】 to explain or describe in a 【B10】 that can be understood by his listeners.

填空题Chomsky claims that it is the linguists task to characterize what speakers know about their language, i

填空题Claims beyond the agreed ______ can be refused by the party in breach.

填空题Bob: There's a baseball game on TV now. Let's stay at home, will you? Alice: ____________

填空题Emily Brontes chief contribution was her masterpiece ________