填空题To restore international peace and security, the Security Council may take action by ______ in addition to economic sanctions.

填空题The size of the newly built square is ______ (是旧的四倍).

填空题It is generally believed that cars in fashion and with various options sell well.

填空题Nobody was allowed to produce and sell the potbellied Franklin stove without Franklin's permission.

填空题You should have been more patient ______ that customer; I"m sure that selling him the watch was a possibility.

填空题Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage 3 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.Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}, I no longer imagine I can {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}a single day, much less all my life, completely on my own. Even if I am on {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}someone else is distributing to my house. {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}of interdependence is everywhere. We are on this {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}together. As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. "Make your own way," "{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}," or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: "Now that you've made your bed, lie in it!" Total independence is a {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}theme in our culture. I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}for my actions and my choices. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural images, and instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally "independent" and {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}became very reluctant to ask for help. I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody.

填空题 {{B}} Save Your Own Life{{/B}} We've all heard the miracle stories: The Boy Scout who survived for four days in the mountains of North Carolina. The Montana couple who fought off a bear. The guy in Utah who cut off his arm to free himself from under a fallen rock. You've probably read many stories like this and wondered how to keep yourself out of the dangers. Here's what to do in some life- threatening emergencies when no one's around to help. {{B}}Allergic Reaction{{/B}} Bee stings, food allergies, and medications can be deadly, even if you think you don't have allergies. Symptoms include itching in one spot or all over your body, sometimes accompanied by a rash, swelling, and, in the extreme, swelling of the airways, which hampers your ability to breathe. If you know you have a life-threatening allergy, form an action plan with your doctor, who will probably prescribe an EpiPen, which comes in child and adult doses. It delivers the drug epinephrine (肾上腺素), which keeps the heart pumping, improves breathing, and gives you about 20 minutes to get to a hospital. Even if you don't have severe allergies, you can still be prepared for a spontaneous reaction. Slip a few maximum-strength antihistamines (抗组胺剂), into your wallet. The fast-acting tablets will begin to fight an allergic reaction while you wait for help to arrive. But since antihistamines can make you drowsy, don't drive yourself to the ER (急诊室). {{B}}Choking{{/B}} Richard Stennes, MD, was home alone in La Jolla Shores, California, eating a steak, when the phone rang. The 64-year-old swallowed down the bite still in his mouth and answered the call. But the steak was stuck, and he couldn't talk or breathe. He put his finger down his throat to grab the meat, but he couldn't reach it. Gagging (使呕吐) didn't help either. So he walked over to the couch and forcefully thrust his abdomen on the hard arm of the couch, sending the meat flying and allowing him to breathe again. If you're ever in the same situation, quickly find a chair or other piece of furniture or a kitchen counter, says Maurizio Miglietta, MD, chief of trauma at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Aim to hit the top of the chair or edge of the counter against your upper abdomen, in the soft part below the bony upside-down V of the ribs. Thrust up and inward. If you still can't breathe after six tries, call 911 from a landline, even if you can't talk. They'll find you. Write the word choking somewhere nearby, and leave the line open until help arrives. {{B}}Heart Attack{{/B}} If you're experiencing crushing chest pain with or without pain in your left arm, are short of breath, or have a sense of impending doom, you may be having a heart attack. (Women are more likely to have atypical symptoms like severe fatigue, nausea, heartburn, and profuse sweating. ) Call 911 and chew one 325 mg uncoated aspirin, to get it into your bloodstream fast. This will thin your blood, often stopping a heart attack in its tracks. While waiting, lie down so that your heart doesn't have to work as hard, says Sandra Schneider, MD, a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians. If you think you might pass out, try forcing yourself to cough deeply. It changes the pressure in your chest and can have the same effect as the thump given in CPR, says Dr. Schneider, "Sometimes it can jolt the heart into a normal rhythm." If someone else goes into cardiac arrest, note that the American Heart Association now recommends CPR without the mouth-to-mouth: Call 911, then push hard and fast on the person's chest until help comes. {{B}}Bear Attack{{/B}} If you surprise a bear, don't run away. That invites an attack. Instead, stand up and back away slowly, without looking the bear in the eyes. Speak softly to the animal (no loud shouting). If it does charge at you, try to make yourself look as large as possible: Stick out your chest, raise your arms, and spread your legs. Now you can yell at the bear, to frighten it. If it's going to attack, lie facedown, with your hands clasped behind your neck. Play dead and don't get up until you're sure the bear is gone. Leave the area immediately in case it returns. If you're in bear country, carry a bear-deterrent pepper spray. Make sure the wind isn't blowing toward you, and spray for one to two seconds when the bear is 30 to 40 feet away. {{B}}Severe Bleeding{{/B}} You're bleeding severely — and getting scared. Forget about tourniquets (止血带), says Dr. Schneider of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Use your hand or a clean cloth, paper towels, a scarf, or any fabric you can grab, and push down on the wound until the bleeding stops. Tourniquets, which every Boy Scout learned how to make back in the day, are now a first-aid no-no. "If you have a cut on your upper leg and you put pressure on it, you're just closing that vessel. But if you put a tourniquet on, you're going to close the vessels to the entire leg," says Dr. Schneider, "You could lose your foot." The only time to use a tourniquet, says Charles Pattavina, MD, chief of emergency medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine, is when you know that everything below the wound is beyond repair (say, the accident has severed your finger, arm, or leg). {{B}}Rising Water{{/B}} Rule No. 1: Never drive through standing water. As thousands of stranded motorists can attest, what looks like a small puddle can be much deeper. "It takes just 12 inches of water to carry a car away," says Robert Sinclair, Jr., of AAA New York. If you do get stuck, step out of the car, which will likely stop when the water reaches the vehicle's electronic controls. If the water is higher than the bottom of your knees or is moving too quickly for you to wade (涉水) through, climb on top of your car and wait for help. Otherwise, get to higher ground. If you suddenly become immersed (say, you drive off a bridge or into a lake or river), roll down the windows as soon as you can. Yes, it allows water to rush in, but that's a good thing, says Sinclair. It equalizes the pressure, so you can open the door or swim out the window. Do it quickly, though, as the electrical systems on automatic windows can get damaged and stop working when wet. A life hammer can shatter automotive glass and cut through seat belts; Sinclair keeps one between the driver's seat and the center console in case of such emergencies. Break the side windows (windshields are usually thicker and harder to crack), and swim toward high, dry land. {{B}}Trapped in a Burning Building{{/B}} If you're in an office building and can't get out, don't panic. "In any emergency situation, the difference between survivors and non-survivors is that survivors remain calm and fight through their fear to find out, 'What can I do?'" says Dr. Schneider. So think back to those fire-safety lessons you learned in grade school. Call 911. Close yourself in a smoke-free room and place a wet towel underneath the door to prevent any smoke from entering, says Dan McBride, a firefighter in New York City. Then get low to the ground, where you can breathe and see better, until help arrives. If you're in a house, get as low as you can and crawl outside as fast as possible. Don't stop until you're well away from the fire. Then call for help.

填空题Owing to the climate change, people are easier to be infected.

填空题In democratic countries ______ (任何限制出版自由的企图) are rightly condemned.

填空题Basically they are encouraging people__________(超速驾驶和违反法律).

填空题This kind of chemical liquid should be stored in ______ (儿童够不到的地方)

填空题Asia"s Lonely Hearts Women are rejecting marriage in Asia. The social implications are serious. A. Twenty years ago there was a debate about whether there were specific "Asian values". Most attention focused on the doubtful claims that democracy was not among them. But a more interesting, if less noticed, argument was that traditional family values were stronger in Asia than in America and Europe, and that this partly accounted for Asia"s economic success. In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged "scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment (推迟) of present enjoyment for future gain". B. On the face of it his claim appears persuasive still. In most of Asia, marriage is widespread and illegitimacy (私生) almost unknown. In contrast, half of marriages in some Western countries end in divorce, and half of all children are born outside wedlock (已婚状况). The recent riots across Britain, whose origins many believe lie in an absence of either parental guidance or filial (子女的) respect, seem to underline a profound difference between East and West. C. Yet marriage is changing fast in East, South-East and South Asia, even though each region has different traditions. The changes are different from those that took place in the West in the second half of the 20th century. Divorce, though rising in some countries, remains comparatively rare. What"s happening in Asia is a flight from marriage. D. Marriage rates are falling partly because people are postponing getting married. Marriage ages have risen all over the world, but the increase is particularly marked in Asia. People there now marry even later than they do in the West. The mean age of marriage in the richest places—Japan, Taiwan China, South Korea and Hong Kong China—has risen sharply in the past few decades, to reach 29-30 for women and 31-33 for men. E. A lot of Asians are not marrying later. They are not marrying at all. Almost a third of Japanese women in their early 30s are unmarried; probably half of those will always be. Over one-fifth of Taiwanese women in their late 30s are single; most will never marry. In some places, rates of non-marriage are especially striking: in Bangkok, 20% of 40-44-year old women are not married; in Tokyo, 21%; among university graduates of that age in Singapore, 27%. F. So far, the trend has not affected Asia"s two giants, China and India. But it is likely to, as the economic factors that have driven it elsewhere in Asia sweep through those two countries as well; and its consequences will be exacerbated (加剧) by the sex-selective abortion practised for a generation there. By 2050, there will be 60m more men of marriageable age than women in China and India. G. Women are retreating from marriage as they go into the workplace. That"s partly because, for a woman, being both employed and married is tough in Asia. Women there are the primary caregivers for husbands, children and, often, for ageing parents; and even when in full-time employment, they are expected to continue to play this role. This is true elsewhere in the world, but the burden that Asian women carry is particularly heavy. Japanese women, who typically work 40 hours a week in the office, then do, on average, another 30 hours of housework. Their husbands, on average, do three hours. And Asian women who give up work to look after children find it hard to return when the children are grown. H. Not surprisingly, Asian women have an unusually pessimistic view of marriage. According to a survey carried out in 2011, many fewer Japanese women felt positive about their marriage than did Japanese men, or American women or men. I. At the same time as employment makes marriage tougher for women, it offers them an alternative. More women are financially independent, so more of them can pursue a single life that may appeal more than the hard and boring traditional marriage. More education has also contributed to the decline of marriage, because Asian women with the most education have always been the most reluctant to wed—and there are now many more highly educated women. J. The flight from marriage in Asia is thus the result of the greater freedom that women enjoy these days, which is to be celebrated. But it is also creating social problems. Compared with the West, Asian countries have invested less in pensions and other forms of social protection, on the assumption that the family will look after ageing or ill relatives. That can no longer be taken for granted. K. The decline of marriage is also contributing to the collapse in the birth rate. Fertility in East Asia has fallen from 5.3 children per woman in the late 1960s to 1.6 now. In countries with the lowest marriage rates, the fertility rate is nearer 1.0. That is beginning to cause huge demographic (人口统计学的) problems, as populations age with startling speed. And there are other, less obvious issues. L. Can marriage be revived in Asia? Maybe, if expectations of those roles of both sexes change; but shifting traditional attitudes is hard. Governments cannot make laws to abolish popular prejudices. They can, though, encourage change. Relaxing divorce laws might boost marriage. Women who now steer clear of wedlock might be more willing to tie the knot if they know it can be untied—not just because they can get out of the marriage if it doesn"t work, but also because their freedom to leave might keep their husbands on their toes. Family law should give divorced women a more generous share of the couple"s assets. Governments should also legislate to get employers to offer both maternal and paternal leave, and provide or subsidise (资助) child care. If taking on such expenses helped promote family life, it might reduce the burden on the state of looking after the old. M. Asian governments have long taken the view that the superiority of their family life was one of their big advantages over the West. That confidence is no longer warranted. They need to wake up to the huge social changes happening in their countries and think about how to cope with the consequences.

填空题As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some (36) to read on the journey, I went to the luggage office to (37) the suitcase I had left there three days before. I rook out my purse to find the receipt for my (38) The receipt did not seem to be where I had left it. I took out all the things in the purse, but no matter how hard I (39) , the receipt was nowhere to be found. When my (40) came, I explained the situation to the assistant. The man looked at me (41) and asked me to (42) the case. The assistant then gave me a form and told me to make a list of the (43) things in the case. (44) I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote them down as they came to me. After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves. I found the case lying in a comer. (45) Again I took out my purse and this time to pay. I pulled out a ten dollar note and the "lost" receipt slipped out with it. (46) . He was nodding his head knowingly, as if to say that he had often seen this happen before too!