填空题Anderson believes that the real test for success is a______________________.

填空题She found a job in Shanghai, but felt that she______(跟不上生活节奏) of the metropolis.

填空题Xenophanes considered that it wasn't right to judge strength as better than ______.

填空题Prospective students should 1 that housing will be an expensive item in their budget, approaching the magnitude of the cost of tuition and food. In general, the amount that a student spends for housing should be held to approximately one-fifth or one-fourth of the total 2 living expenses. If the amount spent for housing 3 one-third of the total budget for living expenses, the student is 4 spending too much. However, if it 5 to one-sixth, it is possible that the quarters are unsafe, unhealthy, and possibly 6 . For detailed information on local housing 7 , students should contact the housing office or the foreign student adviser of the institution that has admitted them. Students should also be advised that 8 to campus from a distance is usually very difficult, because public transportation in many towns and cities in the United States is simply not adequate or convenient. On arrival in the United States, students can usually 9 further information on local housing options from the foreign students adviser; the housing office of the institution; bulletin boards located in dormitories, cafeterias, libraries, etc. on the campus; the "for rent" columns of campus or community newspapers; fellow students who attend the institution; and a host family in the community. A local international hospitality organization may also be a source of assistance in finding a 10 place to live.

填空题Studies reveal that children trust their teachers more than their parents when they are confronted with bullying.

填空题Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have just written. Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the {{U}}(36) {{/U}} composers whoever lived. He thought people that could be {{U}}(37) {{/U}} when they wrote music. Before his time, music was composed for a special {{U}}(38) {{/U}}Often it was church music. Or, music was written to {{U}}(39) {{/U}}at parties and concerts. Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770. He was a very musical child. The boy learned to play the {{U}}(40) {{/U}} and piano, but he was not happy at home. His mother died when he was in his teens. After that, his father was often drunk and {{U}}(41) {{/U}} Beethoven became a tutor in a rich family. His student's mother was very kind to the young teacher. She helped him meet many famous {{U}}(42) {{/U}} One of them was Mozart. He said, "that boy will give the world something {{U}}(43) {{/U}} listening to". When Beethoven was in his twenties, he began to go deaf. The deafness changed his behaviours. {{U}}(44) {{/U}}. His friends found him hard to be around, but he kept composing even when he lost all his hearing. Beethoven died when he was 57 years old. He, had composed over a hundred pieces. {{U}}(45) {{/U}}. {{U}}(46) {{/U}}. Many later composers gained new ideas from Beethoven's music.

填空题Harward University was founded in ______, 16 years after the arrival of Pilgrims at Plymouth.

填空题New York City in the 1830s and 1850s, you couldn't ever live anywhere, it was always being______.

填空题Until 1920 American women _____________________(没有给予选举权).

填空题Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Students have been complaining more and more about stolen property. Radios, cell phones, bicycles, pocket {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and books have all been reported stolen. Are there enough campus police to do the job? There are twenty officers in the Campus Security Division. Their job is to {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}crime, accidents, lost-and-found {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and traffic problems on campus. More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets. {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job. Dealing with crime takes up the rest of their time. Very {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}do any violent crimes actually {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}In the last five years there have been no {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}, seven robberies and about sixty other violent attacks, most of these involving fights at parties. On the other hand, there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}. The thefts are not the carefully planned burglaries (入室盗窃) that you see in movies. Things get stolen when it is easy to steal them because they are left {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}unwatched. Do we really need more police? Hiring more campus police would cost money, possibly making our {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}go up again. A better way to solve this problem might be for all of us to be more careful with our things.

填空题The giant squid was photographed 2,950 feet beneath the North Pacific Ocean.

填空题Why Our Turbulent Weather Is Getting Even Harder to Predict The cold snap, fingers crossed, is about to end But extreme weather — snow, floods and drought — is the new norm. A．Britain"s weather excelled itself last week. It produced an Easter Sunday that was the coldest on record in the UK. Temperatures stuck below zero in many regions; freezing conditions continued to disrupt transport; and experts warned of increasing threats to animals and birds already struggling to survive loss of habitat and climate change. The start of British Summer Time last Sunday night was marked in Braemar by temperatures that fell to -11℃. For good measure, an unappetising April looks likely to follow this misery. B．The persistence of the spring"s awful weather is particularly striking for it comes after a series of other extreme meteorological (气象的) events in recent years. Last winter, a severe drought triggered stern warnings by the Environment Agency that water rationing and hosepipe (水管) bans would soon have to be introduced — until several months of torrential rain produced widespread flooding. Our weather, always unpredictable, is now fluctuating on a grand scale and becoming increasingly hard to forecast long-term. The challenge for meteorologists is to explain these unexpected outbreaks of climatic unpleasantness. C．"There is no doubt that the recent weather has been highly changeable — on both sides of the Atlantic," said meteorologist Nicholas Klingaman of Reading University. "We have blizzards and flooding. America has had droughts and scorching temperatures. Nor is it difficult to pinpoint the immediate cause." Klingaman said. "The problem lies with the jet stream, a narrow band of strong winds that sweeps round the planet between the tropics and the Arctic. Its behaviour has changed dramatically in the past few years and has produced these lengthy bouts of extreme weather. The real question, of course, is an obvious one: Why has the jet stream changed its behaviour?" The answer is very worrying, for it transpires that meteorologists may find it increasingly hard to make long-term assessments of future weather with their former confidence. The planet"s weather systems are being stirred and shaken and the cause is closely linked to climate change, the result of the trillions of tonnes of carbon that we have been pumping into our atmosphere. D．The jet stream gets its name because it circulates at an altitude of around 10km to 15km, the height at which most jet planes fly. It runs from west to east, a feature that can give aircraft significant boosts on eastbound flights across the Atlantic and Pacific. However, in recent years this giant river of air has begun to meander (蜿蜒而流) and to slow down, trapping regions of high or low pressure over the same part of the globe, including the freezing air that has hung over Britain for the last six weeks. As to the reason for this change in the jet stream"s flow, more and more meteorologists now point to global warming. In particular, they pinpoint the most dramatic manifestation of climate change on the planet today — the warming of the Arctic — as the most likely culprit for the destabilising weather patterns we have been experiencing. "The Arctic is warming faster than any other place on Earth," said meteorologist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, New Jersey. "Arctic temperatures have increased at more than twice the global rate. You can see this in the sea ice in summer there. In just the three decades, it has declined by 40%. About 1.3m square miles of sea ice have disappeared. That is an astonishing amount of ice to lose and it shows just how much heating is going on up there. More to the point, that warming is now changing weather patterns across the northern hemisphere." E．How the warming of the Arctic affects our weather has much to do with the origins of the jet stream. Air in the tropics is warmer than the Arctic and it rises. As a result, the atmosphere there is higher than it is over the Arctic. "A gradient is created and air slides down this atmospheric hill towards the Arctic," said Francis. "This flow of air, high up in the atmosphere, from the tropics to the Arctic, is the crucial ingredient in the creation of the jet stream." "The world rotates from west to east, however, and that rotation whips up this northward flow of air that descends over higher latitudes and sends it flying east round the globe as the jet stream. Earth rotates from west to east and that is what drives the jet stream in the same direction." F．Until recently, this mighty stream of air flew round the planet, in a slightly wavy path, between 30 and 60 degrees north. However, times are changing — and so is our atmosphere. "The trouble is that the gradient between the atmosphere in the lower latitudes and in the Arctic is being disrupted by global warming," said Francis. "As the Arctic heats up disproportionately, so does the atmosphere at the north pole and as it warms up, it rises. The net effect has been to erode the gradient between the top of the atmosphere over the tropics and the top of the atmosphere over the Arctic. Less air pours down towards the north pole and less air is whipped up by Earth"s rotation to form the jet stream. It is becoming less of a stream and is behaving more like a sluggish estuary that is meandering across the upper atmosphere at middle latitudes." G．The effects of this meandering are now being felt. As the jet stream slows, weather patterns tend to stick where they are for longer. In addition, the modest waves in the stream have increased in amplitude (波幅) so that they curve north and south more frequently, bringing more weather systems northwards and southwards. Hence the cold conditions that have been brought south over Britain and which have persisted for so long. H．Most scientists believe the link between rising Arctic temperatures and the resulting disruption of the jet stream is the most convincing explanation for the increased bouts of extreme weather in the northern hemisphere. However, some sound notes of caution. "I think the link between Arctic warming and weather disruption is convincing but it is not the only possible explanation," said Klingaman. "For example, there is a phenomenon known as the Madden-Julian oscillation (震荡) which controls how rainfall is distributed around the tropics on a weekly and monthly basis and it has been shown to influence the position of the jet streams. It is possible this oscillation may have been involved in some way in our changing weather patterns." I．Professor Piers Forster of Leeds University also urged caution. "I think it is too early to say that climate change is definitely involved in all the extreme weather events we have seen. The evidence suggests it might well be but we need more studies to confirm the link." But Francis said she was confident of the link. "The droughts, heat waves and freezing weather of recent years are just the types of phenomena that are expected to occur more frequently as the world continues to warren and the Arctic continues to lose its ice," she said.

填空题Consumers' green shopping habits are influenced by Mintel's findings.

填空题There Is Nothing Wrong with Being Single A. "You"re so great—why don"t you have a boyfriend?" This misguided praise, often made to young successful women, has given birth to a new thought experiment: If a woman is great and no romantic partner is there to appreciate her, can she still lead a happy and fulfilling life? B. Since 2000, the most common American household has been a person living alone. Statistics showed that 53.6 percent of American women over the age of 18 were unmarried in 2012. So why do singles often feel like the odd woman out? C. Over the last 15 years, we"ve watched pop culture heroines put their professional accomplishments on the back burner when things go south in the romance department. It"s not hard to see where these television writers are getting their material: Women often feel bad about being single, despite how satisfying their lives are otherwise. D. The Harvard Grant Study, one of the most comprehensive longitudinal (纵向的) studies on happiness, followed 268 male Harvard undergraduates for 75 years to see just what brought them joy. After nearly a lifetime of tracking, researchers discovered that fulfillment was overwhelmingly found in one thing: relationships—but not necessarily romantic relationships. E. "Joy is connection," George Vaillant, who directed the study from 1972 to 2004, told The Huffington Post in 2013. "The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better." F. Great news, right? Unfortunately, this concept isn"t exactly common knowledge, and single women often feel that their many loving, although nonsexual, relationships are discounted. Ann Friedman, a freelance journalist who pens a column for NYMag.com about gender and has shared her adventures in being "deep single". She spoke of her attitude about partnerships—one that avoid the "marriage o"clock" concept instead of a more laissez-faire (自由放任的) approach to life and relationships—has gained such responses as: "You"ve given up on the idea of love" or even worse, "You"ve grown so depressed with the state of the American male that you"ve opted out completely." G. "I was like, "Honestly, I"m really, really cool with what I have going on right now,"" Friedman said. Her outlook is obviously not one-size-fits-all, but it"s never a bad idea to stop and appreciate the wonderful relationships we do have in our lives, whether or not they fit neatly into a romantic box. Just ask Dr. Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out and a permanent Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. H. "What people sometimes overlook when they say "If you"re single, you"re alone" is the possibility that if you"re single, you may have friendships that you pay a lot of attention to," DePaulo told HuffPost Women. "In fact, you might have more support than someone who gets married and only pays attention to their spouse and puts all of their friends on the back burner." Or you may not be prioritizing what you really want. I. Allowing what other people want for you to cloud your judgment can also send you down that dark, "I"m dying alone" spiral (漩涡). Global surveys have found that cultural norms and expectations are what determine our self-esteem, even if we claim we"re above the pressure. When it comes to single women, this dual (双重的) mentality can get tricky. The (obvious) truth is that marriage—or even long-term couplehood—won"t make everyone happier. J. "I think that we are in a society that just so celebrates marriage," DePaulo said. This "matrimania", DePaulo"s term for the over-the-top claims of marriage and weddings, can be especially problematic when you factor in all of the complexities of romantic relationships that can come before marriage. "The cohabitation (同居) gap", a term coined by researchers in 2011, describes the phenomenon of married couples being happier than non-married couples who live together. Why? Here"s how the researchers put it: K. "We can speculate that in such societies, people tend to believe that a woman lives together with her partner without being married not because she doesn"t want to marry him but because he doesn"t want to marry her. The society"s doubts in the commitment of her partner make a cohabiting woman pitied and looked down upon, which could be damaging for her self-esteem and psychological well-being regardless of her own perception of her partner"s commitment." L. Friedman has experienced this condescending (显得高人一等的) attitude towards single or unmarried women. "Really great things happened to me in my life during this period when most people were kind of pitying me," she said of a being single—a period during which her career took off, she took her dream vacation and her social life became more dynamic than ever. "But people always ask me "Don"t you want to meet someone?"" M. This specific breed of condescension led freelance writer Sara Eckel to pen a Modern Love column for the New Fork Times in 2011 (and eventually a fantastic book) on the topic, to explain to women what she says we essentially already know: that there"s nothing to "fix"—single women are fine as they are. N. Yes, you"re still "great" and more than capable of living a happy, fulfilling life, whether or not you"re involved with someone romantically. O. With barely half of US adults married as of 2011 and delayed marriage on the rise, the conversation about singles is shifting. Considering the ever-growing population of women living abundantly happy lives without a partner, how could it not? Of course, downplaying (对……轻描淡写) the special role that marriage plays in many people"s lives isn"t the answer, either. Rather, it"s important to recognize that some people find happiness with a partner later in life or in a more unconventional form of coupledom. P. According to Pew"s 2010 statistics, 84 percent of unmarried people cite "love"—rather than "making a lifelong commitment," "companionship," "having children" or "financial stability"—as the reason to get married. Perhaps women are starting to feel they should get married on their terms, rather than relying on perceived cultural norms. Take a look at Hannah Horvath on "Girls" or Liz Lemon on "30 Rock," and you"ll see that pop culture is already helping to redefine what it means to be single in contemporary society. Q. All of this awareness, however, won"t always relieve all of your fears and insecurities, and that"s OK. As Eckel points out in her book, "If you feel sad sometimes, it"s not because you"re single—it"s because you"re alive." After all, pain is part of life. R. Obviously, not every single woman feels bad about her relationship status, so this statement merely applies to those who do.

填空题Shakespeare began his poems no earlier than 1594.

填空题The first televised ceremonies took place in 1953, at the______.