填空题Iraq's invasion of Kuwait occurred in the year ______.

填空题Supermarket dating, where single person can check each other out via the contents of their baskets, flirt(调情) while weighing vegetable and even walk down the lanes of the market together, is coming to Paris. Lafayette Gourmet, the food hall at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris, is about to unleash(释放) the (47) on the worldwide capital of romance. Single shoppers will be (48) on Thursday evening by special purple shopping baskets (49) with a cartoon of a kissing couple, and (50) a glass of champagne and a free photograph if they succeed in picking up a (51) mate. "We noticed that we have an evening client group buying single portion of (52) food, so we decided the demand is there," Lafayette Gourmet Director Sylvain Gaudu told reporters. Paris, home to around 900,000 singles, many of whom are (53) working hours as long as in London and New York, has already been introduced to speed dating and online dating. The "dating market" shopping evenings, an idea (54) from the Netherlands, will be jointly run with Yahoo, which already has an online dating service in France. Once shoppers have made eyes at each other through the cereal packets or brushed past each other at the cheese counter, they will be able to chat each other up in the (55) for a special checkout counter (56) for them.A) queueF) offered K) reservedB) increasinglyG) concept L) potentialC) familiarH) identified M) uniqueD) rarelyI) opposed N) unfortunatelyE) importedJ) decorated O) fresh

填空题When people cut and burn tropical forests, heavy rains can wash the released nutrients away, leaving the soil even more fertile.

填空题When we say a body is at rest, we mean only its position is relative ______ something fixed.

填空题You should not fear spiders because of their poison. Of all the spiders in North America, only one kind is very (36) and most would not bite even if they were (37) . They much prefer to run away or to drop to the ground on a (38) of silk. Even so, when a spider runs directly toward a person, it gives the (39) that it is about to attack. Actually, it cannot see the person in its way. The spider is too (40) to see things at a distance. It only wants to go where it wouldn't be (41) . In the United States only one kind of spider is responsible for the frightening (42) of the rest. It is the Black Widow (黑寡妇), So called because the female, which is larger than the male, often eats her (43) after making love. (44) . She constructs a loose, irregular web under a pile of rowans or near the foundations of buildings where she is seldom disturbed. She is not an attacking spider and many people have proven this by letting her crawl over their hands. (45) . In spite of the stories you may have heard, it is rare for a person to be bitten by a Black Widow and even more unusual for the bite to prove fatal. (46) .

填空题As well as the basic college residence fees, additional charges are usually made, but are described as minor.

填空题S8. Since colonial times, happy marriages have existed between people with (1)________ but of (2)________.

填空题No direct relationship has been proven between high cholesterol levels and heart attacks.

填空题documents show in Britain for the first time reveal.______

填空题Western-style weddings -- vows, white dresses, churches, receptions become popular with young people in China and weddings easily cost $ 4,000 and are a status symbol.

填空题 {{B}}Marriage by the Numbers{{/B}} When Laurie Aronson was 29, she had little patience for people who inquired why she still wasn't married. "I'm not one of those unmarried women who sit home Friday night and cry," she said. As she passed 35, however, and one relationship after another failed to lead to the altar, she began to worry. "Things were kinking pretty depressive," she says. But then a close friend's brother a man she'd known for years—divorced. Slowly their friendship blossomed into romance. At 39, Aronson married him, becoming Laurie Aronson Starr and the stepmother to his three kids. Then, after five years of treatment, she became pregnant with a son who'll be 4 in July. "My parents are thrilled—it's a relief for everyone," says Starr, now 49. "I wish I could have found the right person earlier and had more children. But I'm very happy now." As happy endings go, hers has a particularly delicious irony. Twenty years ago this week, Aronson was one of more than a dozen single women featured in the cover story of the magazine of Newsweek. In "The Marriage Crunch," the magazine reported on new research predicting that white, college-educated women who failed to marry in their 20s. According to the research, a woman who remained single at 30 had only a 20 percent chance of ever marrying. By 35, the probability dropped to 5 percent. In the story's most infamous line, it is reported that a 40-year-old single woman was "more likely to be killed by a terrorist" than to ever marry. That comparison wasn't in the study, and even in those pre-9/11 days, it struck many people as an offensive analogy (类推). Nonetheless, it quickly became established in pop culture and is still routinely cited in TV shows and news stories. Across the country, women reacted the research in Newsweek with fury, anxiety—and skepticism. "The popular media have invented a national marital crisis on the basis of a single academic experiment... of doubtful statistical merit," wrote Susan Faludi, then a 27-year-old reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, who saw the controversy as one example against feminism (男女平等主义). Twenty years later, the situation looks far brighter. Those odds-she'll-marry statistics turned out to be too pessimistic: today it appears that about 90 percent of baby-boomer men and women either have married or will marry, a ratio that's well in line with historical averages. And these days, about half of all women get married by their 20s, as they did in 1960. At least 14 percent of women born between 1955 and 1964 married after the age of 30. Today the median age for a first marriage—25 for women, 27 for men—is higher than ever before. Not everyone wants to marry, of course. And we're long past those Jane Austen days when being "marriage-minded" was primarily a female quality; today many men openly hope for a wife just as much as women long for a husband. The good news is that older singles who desire a spouse appear to face far kinder odds nowadays. When the Census last passed the numbers in 1996, a single woman at 40 had a 40.8 percent chance of eventually marrying. Today those odds are probably even higher—and may be only slightly worse than the probability of correctly choosing "heads" or "tails" in a coin toss. To mark the anniversary of the cover story, the newspaper of Newsweek located 11 of the 14 single women in the story. Among them, eight are married and three remain single. Several have children or stepchildren. None divorced. Twenty years ago Andrea Quattrocchi was a career-focused Boston hotel executive and reluctant to settle for a spouse who didn't share her fondness for sailing and sushi. Six years later she met her husband at a beachfront bars; they married when she was 36. Today she's a stay-at-home mom with three kids—and yes, the couple regularly enjoys sushi and sailing. "You can have it all today if you wait—that's what I'd tell my daughter," she says. "Enjoy your life when you're single, then find someone in your 30s like Mommy did." The research that led to the marriage predictions began at Harvard and Yale in the mid-1980s. Three researchers- Nell Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craig—began exploring why so many women weren't marrying in their 20s, as most Americans traditionally had. Would these women still marry someday, or not at all? To find an answer, they used "life table" techniques, applying data from past age group to predict future behavior—the same method typically used to predict death rates. "It's the important tool of demography (人口统计学)," says Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin. "They were looking at 40-year-olds and making predictions for 20-year-olds." The researchers focused on women, not men, largely because government statisticians had collected better age-of-marriage data for females as part of its studies on birth patterns and birthrates. Despite the flawed statistics, some observers say the story holds up well. "Once you got over the sensational aspects, there was a lot of substance," says E. Kay Trimberger, a sociologist at Sonoma State University and author of "The New Single Woman." Among other trends the original story identified were the rise in cohabitation, the emergence of single mothers by choice, the fact that many single women were very happy with their lives, and an increasingly out-of-the-closet gay population as factors affecting marriage rates. Some demographers immediately doubted the odds. Within months Census researchers did their own study and concluded that a 40-year-old single woman really had a 17 to 23 percent probability of eventually marrying, not 2.6 percent. In retrospect, the demographers faced a huge challenge in getting these predictions right. That's because marital behavior was undergoing a profound shift. Before 1980, a woman who hadn't married by 30 probably never would. But times were changing. "Women weren't remaining unmarried because marriage was less appealing, but because it was becoming more appealing to wait," says Steven Martin, a University of Maryland sociologist. Such unexpected shifts are part of what makes demographic forecasting extremely difficult, not unlike making weather forecasts in the midst of a hurricane. Even though the original forecasts were wrong, today's researchers remain respectful of Bennett, Bloom and Craig's work. Their marriage-forecast numbers were only a minor part of their study, and the authors remain proud of their papers' larger findings on the diverging marriage rates between blacks and whites and the role that education plays in marriage. Today a new generation of sociologists (社会学家) continues to tinker (修补) with the delayed-marriage puzzle.

填空题Imagination keeps kid's minds sharp, flexible and open to ______.

填空题Studies have proved that insects do not ______.

填空题The students now ______ (宁愿上网，也不愿意到图书馆去看书).