填空题This passage gives a description of how to cultivate a network of friends to help you through rough times.

填空题Disappointment, as uncomfortable and even painful as it can be for us, is essential and important on our journey of growth. Making peace with disappointing others allows us to 1 our erroneous demands for perfection. Letting go of our fear of being disappointed gives us the ability to take more risks and ask for what we truly want. When we"re able to embrace disappointment, we create a sense of liberation and space that 2 to be who we truly are and let go of our 3 with others" opinions. This is not always easy, but is so powerful and can be 4 . Here are a few things you can consider and do to expand your 5 to embrace disappointment: First, take inventory (详细目录). Take an honest look at some of the most important relationships and activities in your life. How many of your actions, thoughts, conversations have to do with your 6 of disappointing others or being disappointed? Second, practice saying "no." This is a great practice, especially for those " 7 " who find saying "yes" to stuff they don"t really want to do. While there is great value in being someone who 8 say "yes" in life, there is also power in owning our "no" as well. Third, expand and express your desires. Make a list of some of the most important and vulnerable desires you 9 have—the things you really want, but maybe have been afraid to admit. When you allow yourself to express your 10 desires, you give yourself the freedom to ask, dream and create.

填空题 Put the pedal to the metal if you're driving in Montana. That state is about to abandon the little loved 65 mph speed limit and, indeed, any limit at all. The state's regulators have wanted to do this for years, but until now were prevented by a federal law passed 22 years ago. The end came on November 28th, when a new federal highway bill was signed into law by President Clinton. The president admitted misgivings, perhaps because his own father had been killed in a road accident, but it was clear that a veto would have been most unpopular. The old speed limit was "about the most disregarded" law in America, notes Csaba Csere, editor of Car Driver magazine. A recent study, he said, found that the average speed on interstate highways in Michigan was 74 mph. Until this week, the official limit was 55 mph on urban freeways and 65 mph on rural expressways. Out west, where a motorist may travel 100 miles without seeing another car, nine states will immediately jump to at least 70 mph, and Nevada, Wyoming and Kansas will go to 75 mph. In Montana it is any speed you like in the daytime. Farther east, where traffic is denser and the weather less reliable, some states are likely to keep to 55 to 65 mph. The national speed limit was passed in 1973 when the first oil crisis had almost trebled fuel prices. In 1974, Congress ordered a 50 mph limit, which was raised to 55 when the oil crisis had passed. But by then safety enthusiasts were arguing that lower speed limits would sharply reduce road deaths, and they continued to argue their case even as Mr. Clinton signed the bill. The change is "equivalent to a death sentence to thousands of Americans", says Joan Claybrook, a former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

填空题Five airlines have already equipped with the new flying phones to offer free service to travelers.

填空题People usually enjoy comic strips by its presentation of a situation or telling a little laughable story.

填空题Nonhuman animals have no culture because they don't have a developed brain.

填空题Searching for love is no longer just a favorite subject for songs. It has also become a huge industry. Experts say that the industry has grown because traditional social ties in the United States have 21 . Many young people leave behind a close community of friends and family to find work in bigger cities. People work longer hours, so they have less time to meet new people. So they depend 22 on technology. This helps explain the 23 of online dating. Some estimates say 120,000 marriages a year result from 24 made on the Internet. The dating industry has also been expanding in new and interesting ways. Many companies around the country offer 25 services for finding the perfect mate. These companies are answering a large demand by single people. They are willing to 26 their time and money to find love with 27 planned methods, instead of leaving love to chance. For example, in Virginia, the company True Life Partners provides a 28 but detailed dating service. The company"s owner, Stephanie Rockey, says her customers are busy professionals who do not have time to search for their life partner. Customers hire Miz Rockey"s team of 29 experts to help them find people they will like based on detailed information they provide about themselves. The company says it is a team of professional personal 30 who help couples meet. But this level of attention comes at a high price. Men pay thousands of dollars for the service. But women get to take part at no cost. A. carefully B. inquire C. personalized D. invest E. notified F. recruiters G. matches H. increasingly I. desperate J. costly K. restraint L. popularity M. weakened N. shortly O. trained

填空题______(只有当你快要失去什么人时) that you become fully conscious of how much you value him.

填空题{{B}}Section B{{/B}}{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} If you're like most people, you're way too smart for advertising. You skip right past newspaper ads, never click on ads online and leave the room during TV commercials. That, at least, is what we tell ourselves. But what we tell ourselves is wrong. Advertising works, which is why, even in hard economic times, Madison Avenue is a 34 billion-a-year business. And if Martin Lindstrom--author of the best seller Buyology and a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo and Disney--is correct, trying to tune this stuff out is about to get a whole lot harder. Lindstrom is a practitioner of neuromarketing (神经营销学) research, in which consumers are exposed to ads while hooked up to machines that monitor brain activity, sweat responses and movements in face muscles, all of which are markers of emotion. According to his studies, 83% of all forms of advertising principally engage only one of our senses: sight. Hearing, however, can be just as powerful, though advertisers have taken only limited advantage of it. Historically, ads have relied on slogans to catch our ear, largely ignoring everyday sounds--a baby laughing and other noises our bodies can't help paying attention to. Weave this stuff into an ad campaign, and we may be powerless to resist it. To figure out what most appeals to our ear, Lindstrom wired up his volunteers, then played them recordings of dozens of familiar sounds, from McDonald's wide-spread "I'm Lovin' It" slogan to cigarettes being lit. The sound that blew the doors off all the rest--both in terms of interest and positive feelings--was a baby giggling. The other high-ranking sounds were less original but still powerful. The sound of a vibrating cell phone was Lindstrom's second-place finisher. Others that followed were an ATM distributing cash and a soda being burst open and poured. In all of these eases, it didn't take an advertiser to invent the sounds, combine them with meaning and then play them over and over until the subjects being part of them. Rather, the sounds already had meaning and thus fueled a series of reactions: hunger, thirst, happy expectation.

填空题Two thousand miles ______ (对我们说太远了)to travel over a short vocation.

填空题If we __________ (对此视而不见) , we shall make the gravest error imaginable.

填空题When my father died of a heart attack in 1991, Jimmy was a wreck, beneath his careful 1 . He was simply in disbelief. Usually very 2 , he now quit speaking altogether and no amount of words could penetrate the 3 expression he wore on his face. I hired someone to live with him and drive him to work, but no matter how much I tried to make things stay the same, even Jimmy 4 that the world he"d known was gone. One day I asked, "You miss Dad, don"t you?" His lips quivered and then he asked, "What do you think, Margaret? He was my best friend." Our 5 began to flow. He didn"t 6 to going to work without my father right away, so he came and lived with me in New York City for a while. He went wherever I went and seemed to adjust pretty well. Still, Jimmy longed to live in my parents" house and work at his old job and I pledged to help him return. 7 , I was able to work it out. He has lived there for 11 years now with many different caretakers and blossomed on his own. He has become 8 to the neighborhood. When you have any mail to be picked up or your dog needs walking, he is your man. My mother was right, of course: It was possible to have a home with room for both his limitations and my 9 . In fact, caring for someone who loves as deeply and 10 my efforts as much as Jimmy does have enriched my life more than anything else ever could have. A. consequently B. adjust C. pleasant D. Eventually E. agreeable F. grasped G. disguise H. ambitions I. essential J. vacant K. appreciates L. tears M. abandon N. ceremony O. indispensable