填空题 Read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the correct word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letters of the word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. The process by {{U}}(66) {{/U}} of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process. Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process {{U}}(67) {{/U}} work. There are few things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value. Almost all fashionable clothes are {{U}}(68) {{/U}} (high) symbolic, so {{U}}(69) {{/U}} food. We s{{U}} (70) {{/U}} our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social p{{U}} (71) {{/U}} We often choose our houses on the {{U}}(72) {{/U}} of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address. " We trade perfectly good cars in for l{{U}} (73) {{/U}} models not always to get better transportation, but to give evi{{U}} (74) {{/U}} to the community that we can {{U}}(75) {{/U}} it. Such complicated and apparently {{U}}(76) {{/U}} (use) behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can't human beings live simply and naturally. " Often the complexity of human life makes us look enviously at the relative {{U}}(77) {{/U}} of such live as dogs and cats. Simply, the fact that symbolic process makes complexity possible is no reason for wanting to {{U}}(78) {{/U}} to a cat-and-dog existence. A better solution is to understand the symbolic process so {{U}}(79) {{/U}} instead of being its slaves we become, to some degree at least, its {{U}}(80) {{/U}}.

填空题Afarmerhasafieldcontainingacertainnumberofpigsandhens.Betweenthemtheyhave36headsand100feet.Howmanypigsandhensdoesthefarmerhave?

填空题Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and it is always true. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better (1)edu . They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy more freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so (2)de on their parents. They think more for themselves and do not blindly (3)a the ideas of their (4)e . Events which the older generation remembers clearly are nothing (5)m than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is different from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple reason (6)t they have been around a bit longer. They don't like to feel that their values are being (7)qu or threatened. And this is precisely what the young are doing. They are questioning the assumptions of their elders and (8)dis their self-satisfaction. They take leave to doubt the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than anything is conformity. Who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used (9)vi to their problems? Why are they so unhappy and so troubled by a sense of guilt in their personal lives, so (10)oc with mean ambitions and the desire to accumulate more and (11)m material possessions? Haven't the old lost touch with all that is important in life? These are not questions the older generation can shrug off lightly. Their record over the past forty years or so hasn't been exactly spotless. Traditionally, the young have (12)tu to their elders for guidance. Today, the situation might be (13)rev . The old—if they are prepared to admit it—could learn a thing or two from their children. One of the biggest lessons they could learn is that enjoyment is not "sinful". (14)En is a principle one could apply to all (15)as of life. It is surely not wrong to enjoy your work and enjoy your leisure. It is surely not wrong to live in the present rather than in the past or future.

填空题Haveyoueverthoughtaboutinventingsomething?Didyouworrythatyourideawastoostrangeorunrealistic?Well,maybeyoushouldthinkagain.StrangeorunrealisticideasneverstoppedArthurPedrick.PedrickwasaBritishinventor.Originallyagovernmentclerk,hespenthisretirementinthe1960sand"1970sdevelopingnewandunusualideas.Someoftheseideascontradictedbasicphysics,butthatdidn"tstopPedrick.OneofhisstrangestideaswasaplantoconnecthugetubesfromthecontinentofAustraliaallthewaytoAntarctica,adistanceof10,000Km!ThesetubeswouldcarrygianticeballsfromAntarcticatoAustralia.ThisicewouldthenmeltintheAustraliandesert,andthewaterwouldbeusedinirrigation.AnotherofPedrick"sinventionswasaradio-controlledgolfball.Agolfercouldchangethespeedanddirectionofthegolfballbysmallflaps,controlledbycomputerchips.Usingradiowaves,thegolfercouldalsofindlostgolfballs.ArthurPedrickhadthousandsofbizarreideasforinventions,mostofwhichwereneverbuilt.ThoughmanyofPedrick"sinventionswereneverdeveloped,alotofotherstrangeideaswere.In1989,acompanydesignedandsoldatheft-preventiondeviceforexpensivecars.Aspartofthisdevice,severaltubeswereattachedtothebottomofacar.Ifsomeonetriedtostealthecar,superhotflameswouldcomeoutofthetubesandburnthecarthief.Somepeoplewhowerenotthieves,however,wereseriouslyinjured,whentheyaccidentallysetoffthedevicebywalkingpastthecar.Otherstrangeinventionsincludeunderwearfordogsandpenswithdrinkableink.Theunderwearkeepsdogsfrommakingamesswhentheygooutforawalk.Also,ifyouareeverthirstyduringatest,apenwithdrinkableinkwouldbeveryhandy!Ifyouhaveanideathatseemsalittleoutinleftfield,don"tletthatstopyoufromtryingit.You"llbeingoodcompany.Summary:Mostinventionsareforusefulthingsthathelppeopleineverydaylife.Someinventions,however,arejustweirdideasthatruncounterto1Someoftheworld"sweirdestideasforinventionscamefromamannamedArthurPedrick.Pedrick"sinventionsincluded2thatcarriedicefromAntarcticatoAustraliaandradiowave-controlled3.NotallweirdinventionscamefromPedrick,however.Everyyearmanypeopledesignproductsthatcouldbeconsideredunusual.Thingslike4madefordogsandpens5aregoodexamples.

填空题Only one other word can be made from all the letters of INSATIABLE. Can you find it?

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填空题 Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. There are ten missing words in it. Fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear on the tape. If there is any single {{U}}(21) {{/U}} that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been achieved because the person was able to analyze defeat and {{U}}(22) {{/U}} profit by it in his next {{U}}(23) {{/U}} . Confuse defeat with failure, and you are {{U}}(24) {{/U}} indeed to failure. For it isn't defeat that makes you fail: it is your own {{U}}(25) {{/U}} to see in defeat the guide and encouragement to success. Defeats are nothing to be {{U}}(26) {{/U}} of. They often occur in the life of every man who achieves success. But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it, analyze it and learn why you are defeated. Not only does defeat prepare us for success, but nothing can {{U}}(27) {{/U}} within us such a compelling {{U}}(28) {{/U}} to success. If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more {{U}}(29) {{/U}} until his whole weight is suspended. It is the same {{U}}(30) {{/U}} which should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. If you make the best of the power which defeat gives, you can succeed with it far more than you are capable of.

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填空题I wish my memory worked differently. I'd like to be able to conjure up an accurate image of my (1) (conscious) from, say, 25 years ago. You know what 25 years means? No cellphones, no e-mail, no Internet, no social networking (except with an actual drink in hand), and only the most primitive of personal computers. What I want to answer is a single (2) : Was I as addicted to the future than as I seem to be now? I ask this because I really enjoy a new update to my operating system, like the one I (3) down from Apple earlier this week. I find it (4) ( surprise) pleasing when one of my iPhone applications requests an update too. Every day I await, with anticipation, a long list of email messages that could arrive at any second, and there are several people I'm really eager to get a text message (5) . Those, too, could come at any time. Soon-even now-I could find my feed-list in Google Reader delightfully stuffed with newness. I am not a Twitterer, but I understand the dismay the Twitter world must have felt during its service (6) (disrupt) last week. When I think back 25 years, there just wasn't that much to be waiting (7) . The phone might ring-and if you left home, you had to leave without it. The mail would come, and so might UPS or Federal Express. Someone might stop by on the spur of the moment. A fax perhaps? That was about it. I've always looked forward to the mail coming. I don't know why, and now where the mail comes constantly, cease (8) , a world where I find myself dismayed by the slowdown in blog feeds over the weekend. I consider myself a moderate user of personal electronics. I almost never wear earbuds, and yet this constant foretaste of the future, this hunger for the next electronic blip, feels to me like a full-blown (9) ( addict). Which is why I'd like a clearer picture of my old self. Was I a little more serene 25 years ago? Was there a little more silence inside my head? A little less (10) (expect)? Or was I leaning headlong into the future even then?

填空题COPTERCAMERATheheligimbalhasrevolutionisedwildlifefilmingTheheligimbalisahigh-definition,long-lenscamerathatcanswivelthrough360degrees.Itisabout50emindiameter,andistheshapeofanoversizedbasketball.Thecameraishousedinaprotectivecoverandsuspendedbeneaththenoseofahelicopter.ASKTHEEXPERTMichaelKelem,theHollywoodcameramanwhousedtheheligimbaltofilmPlanetEarth,sayshe'dratherfilmwildlifethanworkonfeaturefilms.Howhastheheligimbalchangedwildlifefilming?Itprovidesasteadyplatforminthesky.Evenat300mtheshotisstablebecauseofthegyroscopesdefinition.Togetcloseenoughtofilmnaturalbehavioryouusedtohavetofilmfromtheground,butfromthehelicopteryoucanchoosewhereyoufilmfromandfollowtheaction.It'sexpensive,though.That'spartofthereasonwhyit'snotbeenusedforwildlifefilmingbefore.What'sthemaindifferencebetweenshootingwildlifeandfeaturefilms?Youneedmassivelyimprovedconcentration!Infeaturefilmsyoudoashotwhichmaybelastaminute,thenyourest.ButwhenIfilmedwilddogshuntingintheOkavango,forexample,theyweredifficulttofollow;becausetheyblendedintothesceneryanddodgedbetweentrees.Icouldn'ttakemyeyeoffthemonitorforafull40-minutetake.ThatwasthemosttiringworkI'veeverdone.Whattricksdidyouuseinfeaturefilmsthatyouappliedtofilmingwildlife?Nomatterhowcarefullyyouscriptsomething,intheairyouhavetochangetheshotasneedsbe.Thisflexibilityhelpedmewhenfilmingwildlife,becauseyouhavetoadapttotheaction.WhatwasthehighlightofPlanetEarthforyou?FilmingwolveshuntingcaribouintheArctic,becausewegotfivehuntswithinacoupleofhours.Apparentlythatrarelyhappens.AndshootingMountEverestwasprettyspectacular.Whatwouldyouratherworkwith--wildlifeorHollywooddivas?TheworkethicofwildlifeandtheHollywooddivaareverysimilar--theyworkhardforacoupleofhoursinthemorning,huntandeattheirprey(whetherthat'sacaribouorasubmissivedirector)andthentaketheafternoonoff.ThecateringisbetterinHollywood,butitcanbeasickindustry.Thepeopleinwildlifearemoredowntoearth.Questions:

填空题Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke, one of the leading poets of his generation, wasrenowned as a romantic, unlike many of his contemporaries who 【M1】______specialized in writing about the pointless of war. 【M2】______ He was born in 1887, the son of a House Master at Rugby, where Rupert attended both the preparatory and main schools. Whenhe went up to Cambridge in 1906 as a classics scholar, he fared badly 【M3】______in his examinations as his interests laid in literature and theater. 【M4】______During his time at Cambridge, his wit and good looks ensured hisplace as a member of the elite circle of intellectuals study there. 【M5】______ After university he went to study German in Munich, falling inlove with a sculptress there and working feverishly to begin his first 【M6】______volume of poetry, which produced a profit within a few weeks of its publication in 1911. With his early success, Brooke often felt unsettled as he 【M7】______struggled to come to term with the underlying contradictions in his 【M8】______character. Many times his free spirits and bohemianism conflicted 【M9】______directly with the innate Puritanism he had inherited from his mother. 【M10】______Because of these he would sometimes distance himself from his fellows and adopt an irrational suspicious attitude towards them.

填空题The first thing to consider when you want to build a private swimming pool is the size and shape of the pool. The size and the shape will (1)de on many factors. Public pools are usually large and rectangular or L-shaped. But (2)pr pools, our specialty, are smaller and can be any shape--rectangular, kidney bean, round, oval, or free form. A private pool must fit the design of a house and garden. So the shape is (3)im . The size and the shape of your pool will (4)a depend on what you want to do in the pool: Dive? Have a place for children to swim? Exercise? Stay (5)c on hot days? Just relax? We can help you make these decisions. (6)N , you must plan the details of your pool. Our engineers and architects can help you do this. They will survey your land, examine the ground, and look (7)c at your house and garden. (8)T they will draw a detailed plan that is similar to an architect's house plan. The plans will (9)i the location of drains, pipes, and water filter systems. Next, we (10)m dig a large hole in the ground and prepare the ground for concrete. Our team of pool builders is expert at this work. (11)A they dig a large hole in the ground, they will prepare a concrete floor. Then they will prepare the walls of the pool with network reinforcement and steel formwork. Next they will pour or spray concrete onto the walls. The concrete needs to dry (12)s and evenly. If it dries too fast, it will crack. To finish the pool, you might want to add steps, ladders, a diving board, tiles, paint, and lights. You will also need to finish the area around the pool. You might want a paved area around the pool, a fence, and a garden. Be (13)s not to plant trees near the pool: They will cause (14)s and the leaves will drop into the water. (15)Fur , the growing roots will crack the concrete. Our designers and landscapers can help you with these final plans.

填空题If the code for DREAMS is FQGZOR, what is the code for SIZES?

填空题High Dropout Rate in US Many young people in the United States never finish high school. Exactly how many dropouts is another issue. Recent studies of dropout rates have had conflicting results. For one thing, schools define and measure their dropout rates differently. Some researchers say about fifteen to twenty percent of public school students do not complete their education. But many other experts and policymakers believe that for the past twenty years, the dropout rate has been around thirty percent. For Latino and black students, the numbers are even higher. Researchers say almost half of them leave school. At the Baltic time, almost half the states let students leave school before the age of eighteen without informing their parents. Finding a good job without a hilgh school education is more and more difficult. A Northeastern University study in 2002 found that almost half of all dropouts aged sixteen to twenty-four did not have a job. The lack of high school education can also lead to other problems. An estimated two-thirds of prisoners in the United States dropped out of high school. Recent studies have shown that the majority of students who drop out do not do it because they are failing. Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers. Some students feel that educators place low expectations on them. Teen pregnancies also add to the dropout problem. During the past twenty years, there have been efforts to increase graduation rate through education reforms. Some communities are working on dropout prevention programs. These include alternative high schools to meet special needs. Some programs, for example, provide free transportation and childcare to help young mothers and fathers finish school. Yet special programs can cost a lot, and many school systems have limited budgets. Federal spending on second-chance programs to help students finish school has decreased from the 1970s. This was shown in a report last year from the Educational Testing Service. Experts suggest "early warning systems" to help identify young schoolchildren at risk of dropping out of high school. They say schools also need to get parents more involved, especially if their children are missing school often.

填空题Find the number that fits below the 7.

填空题As every schoolboy knows, insects pollinate flowers, while birds and mammals disperse seeds by eating fruits or transporting burs on their feathers and fur. These are examples of co-evolution, a phenomenon first described by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published in 1871. Co-evolution, in which two species have evolved together in response to adaptations that each has imposed on the other, can be extremely subtle. For instance, some animals may help to transfer pollen from one plant to another without acting directly as the carrier themselves. Instead, they make it easier for the pollen to be dispersed by other creatures. Mats Olsson and Richard Shine, of the University of Sydney, and Elisabeth Bak-Olsson, of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, have discovered, apparently for the first time, such a mutually beneficial arrangement between a reptile and a plant. For most of the year the Tasmanian snow skink lizard confined to mountain tops in that island is catholic in what it eats. But when the honey-bush is in bloom, the skinks make a point of tearing off the tough, red petals that enclose the rest of the flower. They chew them to extract the nectar and spit out what is left. At first sight, this skink-savaging may not seem all that helpful to the honey- bush. But it is. It exposes the reproductive parts of the flowers, thereby allowing pollinating insects to get at them. Dr. Olsson and his colleagues found that flowers with the petals left intact never produced seed. But, according to their paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 87% of flowers with the petals torn off did so. To check that it was the skinks alone that were the plants' little helpers, the researchers placed cages around some honey-bushes. Virtually all of the petals were removed from the flowers on bushes without cages. Only 16% of the caged bushes had their petals ripped off, possibly by high winds battering them. Dr Olsson found no evidence of pollen being carried on a skink and so concluded that the lizards play no role in transporting honey-bush pollen from one flower to another. But he did see a range of insects: wasps, flies, bumble-bees and others feeding from honey-bush flowers that had no petals covering them. Without the petals removed, it was impossible for insects to do any pollinating. SUMMARY: Co-evolution is (51) described by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man. In the process of co-evolution, two species may have to respond to adaptations they have imposed on each other. For example, some animals may not carry. (52) from one plant to another. They may help by making it easier for other creatures to disperse the pollen from one plant to another. Such an arrangement seems (53) to both species. In Tasmania, the skink lizards chew the red petals of (54) and spit out what is left. In doing so, they expose the reproductive parts of the flower and enable pollinating insects to reach them. It was discovered that 87% of these flowers produced seeds. Conversely, flowers with petals remaining (55) never did.

填空题OnNewYear'sDay,1985,MichaelHarrisonphonedhisfather,SirErnest,towishhimaHappyNewYear.SirErnestwaschairmanofRacalElectronics,theownerofVodafone,andhissonwasmakingthefirst-evermobilephonecallintheUKLaterthatmorning,comedianErnieWisemadeaverypublicmobilephonecallfromStKatherine'sDock,inEastLondon,toannouncethatVodafonewasnowopenforbusiness.Afewdayslater,itsonlyrival,Cell-net,ajointventurebetweenBTandSecuricor,wasalsoinbusiness.Atthetime,mobilephonesweighedalmostakilogram,costseveralthousandpoundsand,insomecases,providedonly20minutesof"talktime".Thenetworksthemselvesweresmall;VodafonehadjustadozenmastscoveringLondonandtheareawestofLondon,whileCell-netstartedwithasinglemast,stuckontheBTTower.Neithercompanyhadanyideaofthehugepotentialofwirelesscommunicationandthedramaticimpactthatmobilephoneswouldhaveoverthenextquartercentury."Weprojectedtherewouldonlybeaboutamillioneversold,andthatwewouldgetabout,35%ofthemarket.BTprojectedtherewouldbeabouthalfamillionmobilephonessoldandthattheywouldgetabout80%ofthemarket,"remembersSirChristopherGent,formerVodafonechiefexecutivewhowasatStKatherine'sDockaquarterofacenturyago."Inthefirstyear,wesoldabout15,000to20,000phones.TheportableMotorolawasabout~3,000butmostofthephoneswesoldwerecarphonesfromcompaniessuchasPanasonicandNokia."HardlyanyonebelievedtherewouldcomeadaywhenmobilephonesweresopopularthattherewouldbemorephonesintheUKthantherearepeople.Butin1999onemobilephonewassoldintheUKeveryfourseconds,andby2004thereweremoremobilephonesintheUKthanpeople.Theboomwasaresultofincreasedcompetition—whichpushedpriceslowerandcreatedinnovationsinthewaythatmobilesweresold,helpingputthemwithinthereachofthemassmarket—andthemovetodigitaltechnology.DecidewhetherthefollowingstatementsareTrueorFalse.

填空题A census-taker calls at a house. He asks the woman living there the ages of her three daughters. The woman says, "If you multiply their ages the total is 72 ; if you add their ages the total is the same as the number on my front door, which you can see. " The census-taker says, "That is not enough information for me to calculate their ages. " The woman says, "Well, my eldest daughter has a cat with a wooden leg. " The census-taker replies, "Ah! Now I can calculate their ages. " What are the ages of the three girls?

填空题Readthepassageandfillineachblankwithoneword.Choosethewordinoneofthefollowingthreeways:accordingtothecontext,byusingthecorrectformofthegivenword,orbyusingsomegivenlettersoftheword.Remembertowritetheanswersontheanswersheet.WaterforLifeWaterisessentialforlife.Yetmanymillionsofpeoplearoundtheworldfaceawater{{U}}{{U}}1{{/U}}{{/U}}(short).Manymillionsofchildrendieeveryyearfromwater-bornedi{{U}}{{U}}2{{/U}}{{/U}}anddroughtregularlyafflictssomeoftheworld'spoorestcountries.Theworldneedstorespond.{{U}}{{U}}3{{/U}}{{/U}}moreeffectively.Weneedtoincreasewaterefficiency,especiallyinagriculture.Weneedtofreewomenandgirlsfromthedailychoreof{{U}}{{U}}4{{/U}}{{/U}}(get)water,oftenfromgreatdistances.Wemustinvolvetheminmakingadecisionaboutwatermanagement.Weneedtomakesanitationapriority.Thisis{{U}}{{U}}5{{/U}}{{/U}}progressislagging(滞后)most.Wemustalsoshowthatwaterresourcesneednotbeasourceofconflict.Ins{{U}}{{U}}6{{/U}}{{/U}},theyshouldbeacatalyst(催化剂)forcooperation.Significantgainshavebeenmade,butamajoref{{U}}{{U}}7{{/U}}{{/U}}isstillrequired.Thatiswhythisyearmarksthebeginningofthe"WaterforLife"Decade.Ourg{{U}}{{U}}8{{/U}}{{/U}}istomeettheinternationallyagreedtargetsforwaterandsanitationby2015,andtobuildafoundationfor{{U}}{{U}}9{{/U}}{{/U}}furprogressintheyearsahead.Thisisanurgentmatteraffectinghuman{{U}}{{U}}10{{/U}}{{/U}}(develop),andhumandignity.