填空题Who has fully realized that history ______ (并非包含在厚厚的书本内，而是生存在我们的血液里)?

填空题Friendship between ______ people can be taken up again easily even if friends are separated for some time.

填空题Some men leave their companies just because they have to take over their family businesses.

填空题Stone and marble are often used in sculpture and monument.

填空题What Will the World Be like in Fifty Years? A. This week some top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, gave their vision of how the world will look in 2056, from gas-powered cars to extraordinary health advances, John Ingham reports on what the world"s finest minds believe our futures will be. B. For those of us lucky enough to live that long, 2056 will be a world of almost perpetual youth, where obesity is a remote memory and robots become our companions. We will be rubbing shoulders with aliens and colonizing outer space. Better still, our descendants might at last live in a world at peace with itself. C. The prediction is that we will have found a source of inexhaustible, safe, green energy, and that science will have killed off religion. If they are right we will have removed two of the main causes of war—our dependence on oil and religious prejudice. Will we really, as today"s scientists claim, be able to live forever or at least cheat the ageing process so that the average person lives to 150? D. Of course, all these predictions come with a scientific health warning. Harvard professor Steven Pinker says: "This is an invitation to look foolish, as with the predictions of domed cities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners that were made 50 year ago." Living longer E. Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute in North Carolina, believes failing organs will be repaired by injecting cells into the body. They will naturally to straight to the injury and help heal it. A system of injections without needles could also slow the ageing process by using the same process to "tune" cells. F. Bruce Lahn, professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, anticipates the ability to produce "unlimited supplies" of transplantable human organs without the needed a new organ, such as kidney, the surgeon would contact a commercial organ producer, give him the patient"s immuno-logical profile and would then be sent a kidney with the correct tissue type. G. These organs would be entirely composed of human cells, grown by introducing them into animal hosts, and allowing them to develop into and organ in place of the animal"s own. But Prof. Lahn believes that farmed brains would be "off limits". He says: "Very few people would want to have their brains replaced by someone else"s and we probably don"t want to put a human braining an animal body." Aliens H. Collin Pillinger, professor of planetary sciences at the Open University, says: "I fancy that at least we will be able to show that life did start to evolve on Mars well as Earth." Within 50 years he hopes scientists will prove that alien life came here in Martian meteorites (陨石). I. Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA"s Ames Research Center, believes that in 50 years we may find evidence of alien life in ancient permanent frost of Mars or on other planets. He adds: "There is even a chance we will find alien life forms here on Earth. It might be as different as English is to Chinese. J. Princeton professor Freeman Dyson thinks it "likely" that life form outer space will be discovered before 2056 because the tools for finding it, such as optical and radio detection and data processing, are improving. He says: "As soon as the first evidence is found, we will know what to look for and additional discoveries are likely to follow quickly. Such discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for biology, astronomy and philosophy. They may change the way we look at ourselves and our place in the universe. Colonies in space K. Richard Gott professor of astrophysics at Princeton, hopes man will set up a self-sufficient colony on Mars, which would be a "life insurance policy against whatever catastrophes, natural or otherwise, might occur on Earth." The real space race is whether we will colonise off Earth on to other worlds before money for the space program runs out." Spinal injuries L. Ellen Heber-Katz, a professor at the Wistar Institude in Philadelphia, foresees cures for injuries causing paralysis such as the one that afflicated Superman star Christopher Reeve. She says: "I believe that the day is not far off when we will be able to prescribe drugs that cause severes (断裂的) spinal cords to heal, hearts to regenerate and lost limbs to regrow. "People will come to expect that injured or diseased organs are meant to be repaired from within, in much the same way that we fix an appliance or automobile: by replacing the damaged part with a manufacturer-certified new part." She predicts that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later. Repairs to the nervous system will start with optic nerves and, in time, the spinal cord." Within 50 years whole body replacement will be routine," Prof. Heber-Katz adds. Obesity M. Sydney Brenner, senior distinguished fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center in California, won the 2002 Noble Prize for Medicine and says that if there is a global disaster some humans will survive-and evolution will favor small people with bodies large enough to support the required amount of brain power. "Obesity, he says," "will have been solved." Energy N. Bill Joy, green technology expert in California, says: "The most significant breaking through would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe, green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source." O. Ideally, such a source would be safe in that it could not be made into weapons and would not make hazardous or toxic waste or carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.

填空题The most unusual about David Woods' suicide is that nobody knew the reason why he did it.

填空题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Success of a speech is often {{U}}(47) {{/U}} to the skills of the speaker, with merits being given to speakers who are confident, articulate(表达能力强), knowledgeable and able to deliver a speech with {{U}}(48) {{/U}} But often it is not the speakers who write these moving speeches, it is a speechwriter. Some believe that the best speechwriters have an {{U}}(49) {{/U}} talent, a natural creative instinct, and that speechwriting is an art form. So what about those of us who do not possess such genius? Can we still produce successful speeches? In an interview, Dr Max Atkinson {{U}}(50) {{/U}} a number of speechwriting techniques. He also {{U}}(51) {{/U}} how these techniques have been used in historic speeches. One such technique is introducing {{U}}(52) {{/U}} This is {{U}}(53) {{/U}} useful when presenting a positive spin on a negative issue. One of the most famous examples of this can be seen in a speech given by former American President John F Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. " Another technique is the use of three-part lists. Dr Atkinson explains that this can be an {{U}}(54) {{/U}} way of adding finality or confirming a statement. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a fan of this technique. One of his most famous campaign slogans was "education, education, education". These techniques can be used like tools—they can be chosen from a toolbox and {{U}}(55) {{/U}} when necessary. A few other techniques you might find in a speechwriter's toolbox might he the use of imagery, anecdotes(趣闻轶事) and alliteration(押头韵). So next time you have to prepare a speech or {{U}}(56) {{/U}}, try applying one or more of these techniques and see if you have what it takes to be a winning speechwriter. A) excellent F) attributed K) convention B) contrast G) interesting L) presentation C) contributed H) inherent M) extremely D) detailed I) illustrated N) merely E) outlined J) conviction O) applied

填空题New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic Divide A. This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, "I hate going to school," and "Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else." B. With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow- up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child" approach to schooling that respects "social-emotional development" and "deep and meaningful learning" over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years. C. But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold"s letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter"s middle school, who has come to see the district"s increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. "My son was in fourth grade and told me, "I"m not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my résumé,"" she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold"s reforms would amount to a "dumbing down" of his children"s education. "What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future," Jia said. D. About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores. E. The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district"s advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian- American, is one of Aderhold"s reforms. F. Asiau-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them. G. Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become more obvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program. H. Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of The Asian American Achievement Paradox , says misunderstandings between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class. "They don"t have the same chances to get their children internships (实习职位) or jobs at law firms," Lee said. "So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later." I. The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignment, a middle school student depicted (描绘) an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, "Shame on you!" Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts. J. The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school "always or most of the time." "We need to bring back some balance," Aderhold said. "You don"t want to wait until it"s too late to do something." K. Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out of control. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it back. "It"s become an arms race, an educational arms race," she said. "We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?"

填空题My father seemed to be ______ no mood to look at my school report.

填空题Not only______(他拒绝了这份礼物) he also______(严厉批评了送礼的人)．

填空题Some learn by taking notes and making charts and others learn by ______.

填空题The major responsibilities of the UN are to maintain world peace, prevent world or local wars and stop aggression, which are specified in the 7th Chapter of the UN Charter.

填空题Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of 1 where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the 2 . Life on a desert island is wretched. You either 3 to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, Waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few us have had the opportunity to find out. Two men who recently spent five clays on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly 4 boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to 5 . They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not 6 to be a problem. The men 7 rainwater in the rubber dinghy. 8 they had brought a spear gun with them, they had 9 to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it "ate like kings". When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely 10 that they had to leave. A. when B. sank C. damaged D. few E. starve F. collected G. sink H. paradise I. opposite J. as K. happy L. plenty M. sorry N. same O. prove

填空题The community colleges are popular among many students because it calls for less tuition fees.

填空题Just over half the nurses in the 1986 study believed that management understood the effects that shift work had on them.