填空题According to a European Commission study, housing should be fully-occupied to avoid ______.

填空题At first, my dad was not in favor of me marrying Will because Will is black. I guess my dad was a bit of a racist. Unfortunately, no arguments could counter dad"s beliefs. Despite his 1 , though, Will and I decided to 2 our wedding. On a marvelous June day we were married in the park. The wedding went off without any hostile words or embarrassing 3 It was actually quite beautiful. There was just one problem. Many of our friends and relatives didn"t 4 our wedding. I had to conclude that my dad was not the only prejudiced person we knew. (30) my father, no one had come out to speak against my relationship with Will. It did not seem 5 for them to show their resistance to our marriage in this way. My dad had strong 6 about my marriage to Will, but at least he was there. Will and I decided to 7 this burden by showing everyone how wrong they were. We wanted not only to love one another, but also to defy racial hatred by loving one another. We probably weren"t being all that 8 but we did succeed with one person. My dad and Will have developed an 9 friendship. My dad says he has forgotten why he ever had any doubts about our marriage.

填空题Your work______(远远不尽人意), so you should not complain about your treatment.

填空题S4. Why do people in Kuzistan drink natural rainwater on rainy days?

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填空题Students at community colleges live at home rather than in dormitories, so they have less opportunity to attend ______.

填空题Gulf Wracked By Katrina's Latest Legacy--Disease, Poisons, Mold A month after Hurricane Katrina tore through the U.S. Gulf Coast, medical experts are now struggling with the latest crisis in the region: contamination( 污染 ). Katrina left New Orleans and other communities tainted with oil, sewage, and possibly poisons leached from federal toxic waste sites, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says. The pollution, combined with the lack of regular medical services in the region, has raised serious questions about the safety of New Orleans and other coastal towns as people longing for home begin to go back. "I don't think New Orleans is safe for people to return to, from a public health and environmental health standpoint, "said Miriam Aschkenasy, an environmental health expert working with Oxfam America in the region. Much of the contamination rests in the brown, filmy sediment( 沉淀物 ) left behind by Katrina's polluted floodwaters. Recent EPA tests of the sediment confirmed high levels of E. coli bacteria, oil and gas chemicals, and lead, as well as varying quantities of arsenic. The health risks posed by the sediment are immediate, experts say, because the sludge (淤泥) is nearly impossible for returning residents to avoid. In New Orleans, it covers every surface that was flooded, from cars and now-dead lawns to the entire contents of flooded homes, stores, hospitals, and schools. "When people come back, they are exposed to the sediment," said Wilma Subra, a chemist from New Iberia, Louisiana, who is analyzing the sediment. "It's in their yards and houses."Old Pollution Resurfacing Plaquemines Parish, a rural county on the peninsula south of New Orleans, is now covered with even more toxic sediment than it was two weeks ago, thanks to Hurricane Rita. "Six inches up to one foot ( 15 to 30 centimeters ) of sludge," Subra reported. Much of the sludge in Plaquemines is the product of nearby bayous and bay bottoms, where, sediment was lifted up by Katrina's and Rita's storm surges. The sediment has been polluted over the years with industrial chemicals and heavy metals, said Suhra, who tested the sediment for the Southern Mutual Help Association, a nonprofit organization in New Iberia, Louisiana. "These water bodies have received industrial wastes for decades," she said. "This material has toxic chemicals, metals, and organic petrochemicals ( 石化产品 )." Matters have only been made worse by multiple oil spills caused by Katrina and Rita. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, 11 oil spills have occurred in southern Louisiana, totaling 7.4 million gallons (28 million liters) of oil, most of which has been contained. Bacteria levels arc also especially high in the Plaquemines sludge, said Rodney Mallett, spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. "The sewage treatment plants were underwater," he explained. "Between the animal waste and the human waste, you've got a lot of bacteria."Protection Kits Health and environmental agencies are advising people to avoid contact with the sludge. They recommend that people wear gloves, goggles, and dust masks, and that they wash promptly if exposure occurs. EPA officials are directing people to its Web site (www.epa.gov) to inform themselves of the contamination risks. But most people returning to the area don't have computers to get that information, said Erik Olson, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. "If you [do] read the Web site," he added, "you practically have to have a degree in chemistry to understand it." To better inform people of health risks, the Southern Mutual Help Association and Oxfam America are developing a program to give every returning resident a protective kit. Each kit would contain waterproof suits, goggles (风镜), shoe covers, and masks, along with information about potential hazards. Volunteers would give out the kits at the security checkpoints that now stand at the major entrances to affected cities. The groups have made a hundred demonstration kits, which cost about ＄100 (U.S.) each to produce, and have shown them to state leaders in Louisiana. "The governor is really in favor of this," Subra said. "We just have to determine how we're going to fund them."Toxic Mold Blooms In addition to the toxic sediment, sprawling blooms of mold have now taken hold in many flooded homes. "The mold is growing everywhere--homes are just coated with it," Subra said. The problem has become so widespread that federal health officials warned Wednesday of allergic reactions and toxic responses to the mold. Professionals should be hired to clean mold that covers more than ten square feet (one square meter), they urged. "Those [surfaces] that can't be cleaned need to be removed," said Steven Redd, chief of the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The effects of the mold are already surfacing in Mississippi, where respiratory ( 呼吸的 ) problems are among the illnesses doctors there are reporting. "We're seeing a lot of asthma from inhaling the mold," said Richard Paat, team leader of a temporary East Biloxi clinic. "And month sores from the bad water." Due to contact with unclean water, 33 people in the flood zone have contracted Vibrio infections, according to the CDC. The infections are caused by a family of bacteria that live in contaminated salt water. They can cause serious illness, especially in people with compromised immune systems. To date, six people have died from Vibrio infections. "People had open wounds and walked through floodwater with sewage in it," CDC spokesperson Von Roebuck said. "And these folks were having these wounds infected with Vibrio."Disaster Response Care "This is a highly contaminated area," said Susan- Briggs, the physician overseeing FEMA's disaster-response medical teams in Louisiana and Alabama. Her teams have been inoculating residents for tetanus and Hepatitis A andB. Hepatitis is a danger when people are exposed to sewage, through water or food, Briggs explained. Tetanus can occur when people cut themselves on unclean materials, as may happen when cleaning debris. The rudimentary (根本的) living conditions in many Katrina-struck areas make it more likely that people will get sick and injured, Briggs said. "They have no electricity, no clean water, no air conditioning," she said. "There are collapsed structures and stray animals. There are huge amounts of stray dogs, and people have been bitten." Briggs and other doctors in the area have been treating many cases of diarrhea, rashes, and upper-respiratory illnesses. All of these conditions are to be expected after natural disasters, according to the CDC. But it's too soon to know if these ailments are related to contamination, the CDC's Roebuck said. "We're looking at that question," he said. "We'd like to know the answer."

填空题According to research, man's sense of time is mainly mental.

填空题Legislation that built a national highway system was not signed until the 1950s.

填空题With the company of the puppy, that Christmas _______________ for Stella.

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 written. In 1995, Ryan Schreiber was a 19-year-old Minneapolis record-store clerk who wanted to publish a rock-music fanzine (杂志) but lacked access to a photocopier. Instead, he started a {{U}}{{U}} 1 {{/U}}{{/U}}, called it Pitchfork and began posting his thoughts on bands like Sonic Youth, Fugazi and the Pixies--groups whose songs {{U}}{{U}} 2 {{/U}}{{/U}}appeared on the radio or MTV. It was the first golden age of "indie" artists, back when the word was {{U}}{{U}} 3 {{/U}}{{/U}}for music released on{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}}{{/U}}record labels, {{U}}{{U}} 5 {{/U}}{{/U}}the artistic freedom and cachet that came from operating on the fringes. By 2000, Schreiber had moved the site to Chicago, acquired some freelance writers and codified the Pitchfork review into a signature {{U}}{{U}} 6 {{/U}}{{/U}}--a long, rambling personal opinion of an album, {{U}}{{U}} 7 {{/U}}{{/U}}by a rating on a scale from 0.0 to 10.0. But the site's {{U}}{{U}} 8 {{/U}}{{/U}}was still, to use his word, "negligible". That changed in October of that year, when Pitchfork posted a fawning, grandiloquent (夸张的) 10.0 review of Radio head's experimental rock album Kid A. Critic Brent DiCrescenzo's paean included lines like "butterscotch lamps along the walls of the tight city square bled upward into the cobalt sky" and became an Internet sensation--for all the wrong reasons. {{U}}{{U}} 9 {{/U}}{{/U}}.Schreiber and his writers knew what they were talking about; Kid A., which later debuted at No. 1 on Billboard, really was a10.0 album. {{U}}{{U}} 10 {{/U}}{{/U}}--like xylophone-prone Icelandic band Sigur Rós and harmonizing rockers Modest Mouse--began to act as stepping-stones to mainstream coverage. In the year of 2000, Modest Mouse moved from independent label Up Records to Sony-owned Epic; {{U}}{{U}} 11 {{/U}}{{/U}}. Their songs are now used in car commercials.