填空题They felt greatly relieved when they found ________that all the villagers were safe and sound

填空题The little girl finds great pleasure in playing with her dolls. (delight) ______.

填空题Our environment ______ (get)worse and worse with the increase of the world population.

填空题We might marvel at the process made in every field of study, but the method of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years educationists have still failed to devise anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. 41. ______ They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. 42. ______ Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. no one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of "dropouts": young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? 43. ______ Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedom. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are best trained in the technique of working under duress. 44. ______ Examiners are only human. They get tried and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. 45. ______ Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: "I were a teenage drop-out and now I am a teenage millionaire."[A] A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the students are encouraged to memorize.[B] The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner.[C] Examinations can be taken as a test of a student's knowledge about a particular subject which would tell the student where he stands among others, and how much he knows and how much he ought to know.[D] As anxiety-makers examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in our society.[E] The student appearing for the exam takes it under extreme tension and pressure because he knows that he has only one chance to prove his worth and if he fails, he will be left behind for the rest of his life.[F] For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite.[G] There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities.

填空题Speech organs, also known as vocal organs, are those parts of the human body involved in the ________of speech

填空题By the end of the year all but two people (leave) ______.

填空题If a farmer wishes to succeed

填空题We had a long discussion before we reached an agreement．

填空题Let"s go and watch that new movie at eight tonight , won"t we ?

填空题In pronunciation, the [p] in peak is different from the [p] in speak in that the first [p] is ________

填空题In addition to the(require)______ courses, there are still some other courses to be individually chosen.

填空题His theory, the theory that was once condemned, has now been borne ________ by facts

填空题No wonder the sight of elegant buildings along the canals reminded me of Paris, Amsterdam and Venice.

填空题Some people think that nuclear war would mean the end of ______ (civil).

填空题(Not too many) years (ago) my mother jogged in the alley behind our house because she was embarrassed (to see) jogging (in public).A. Not too many B. ago C. to see D. in public

填空题(It is) very hard to believe (that when) Lincoln was born, communications were (a little) faster than (in the days) of Julius Caesar.A. It is B. that when C. a little D. in the days

填空题The wound soldier made an effort to stand up, but the general stopped him.

填空题Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment. Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. No mind is happy without peace. We realize the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, failure and despair. But these things are temporary and pass away.

填空题I've never been anywhere nicer than here. Everywhere ______.

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