填空题It is imperative that the govemment______(为造船产业吸引更多的投资).

填空题Shakespeare moved to London mainly because of economic reasons.

填空题George Washington was the first president of the United States.

填空题_____________________ (这是常识) that you should take an umbrella with you when it's raining.

填空题The problem_________________________________(过支一直没有解决).

填空题A child who often________________________(沉溺于电视) doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy.

填空题Into the Unknown A. Until the early 1900s nobody thought much about the whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a "world assembly on ageing" back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled "Averting the Old Age Crisis", it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable. B. For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly by Americans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Stoma, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare. C. Since then the debate has become less emotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organizations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports. Population ageing is on every agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits. The World Economic Forum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year. The media, including the newspaper, are giving the subject extensive coverage. D. Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another question. Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly. That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades. E. The outline of the changes needed is clear. To avoid fiscal (财政的) meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up. By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time. It may even keep them alive longer. John Rother, the AARP"s head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers. F. Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous. Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to. That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labor force, increasing employers" choice. But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey. G. In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labor force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off). Immigration in the developed world is the highest it has ever been, and it is making a useful difference. In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing Western Europe for about 90%. H. On the face of it, it seems the perfect solution. Many developing countries have lots of young people in the need of jobs, while many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep up economic growth. But over the next few decades labor forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe"s most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones. Japan would need a large multiple of the few immigrants it has at present. Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high. Further big increases would be politically unfeasible. I. To tackle the problem of ageing populations at its root, "old" countries would have to rejuvenate (使年轻) themselves by having more of their own children. A number of them have tried, some more successfully than others. But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care. Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families. Women find it hard to combine family and career. They often compromise by having just one child. J. And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up? It will not be the end of the world, at least not for quite a while yet, but the world will become a different place. Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones. By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater numbers than younger ones. Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so. K. Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s. After all, older people themselves mostly have families. In a recent study of parents and grown-up children in 11 European countries, Karsten Hank of Mannheim University found that 85% of them lived within 25kin of each other and the majority of them were in touch at least once a week. L. Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too. Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of America"s CSIS, in a thoughtful book called The Graying of the Great Powers, argue that, among other things, the ageing of the developed countries will have a number of serious security implications. M. For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service. In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world"s defense effort. Because America"s population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking, America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically (地缘政治上). N. There is little that can be done to stop population ageing, so the world will have to live with it. But some of the consequences can be alleviated. Many experts now believe that given the right policies, the effects, though grave, need not be catastrophic. Most countries have recognized the need to do something and beginning to act. O. But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work. What is happening now is historically unprecedented. Ronald Lee, director of the centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly, "We don"t really know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done it yet."

填空题Tennis champion Chris Evert visualized her opponent's style for imitation.

填空题The study from St. Michael"s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Science found that women tend to seek out mental health services months earlier than men. Researchers looked at people diagnosed with at least one of four illnesses: diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma (哮喘) or chronic obstructive lung disease. Of people diagnosed with these 1 , women were not only more likely than men to seek mental health services, but they also used medical services for mental health 2 six months earlier than men in any three-year period. For the purposes of the study, "mental health services" were 3 as one visit to a physician or specialist for mental health reasons, such as depression, anxiety, smoking addiction or marital difficulties. "Our results don"t 4 mean that more 5 should be paid to women, however," study author Flora Matheson said. "We still need more research to understand why this gender 6 exists." The findings could suggest 7 conclusions about the way that different sexes use mental health services. It may mean that women feel more comfortable seeking mental health support than men or that men delay seeking support. The study could also 8 that symptoms are worse among women, which would 9 more women to seek help and to do so sooner. "Chronic physical illness can lead to 10 ," Matheson said. "We want to better understand who will seek mental health services when diagnosed with a chronic physical illness so we can best help those who need care." A. comparisons I. interior B. conditions J. necessarily C. defined K. offer D. depression L. refined E. divide M. successively F. encourage N. treatment G. focus O. various H. imply

填空题Back in the day, a good report card earned you a parental pat on the back, but now it could be money in your pocket. Experiments with cash incentives (激励) for students have been catching on in public-school districts across the country, and so has the debate over whether they are a (47) tool for hard-to-motivate students. According to a study (48) today by the social-policy research group MDRC, a non-profit organization, cash incentives combined with counseling offered "real hope" to low-income and nontraditional students at two Louisiana community colleges. The program (49) by the Louisiana Department of Social Services and the Louisiana Workforce Commission was simple: enroll in college at least half-time, (50) at least a C average and earn 1,000 a semester for up to two terms. Participants, who were randomly (51) , were 30% more likely to register for a second semester than were students who were not offered the supplemental financial (52) . And the participants who were first offered cash incentives in spring 2004--and thus whose progress was tracked for longer than that of subsequent groups before Hurricane Katrina (53) forced researchers to suspend the survey for several months in August 2005--were also more likely than their peers to be enrolled in college a year after they had finished the two-term program. Students offered cash incentives in the Louisiana program earned more (54) and were more likely to attain a C average than were nonparticipants. And they showed psychological (55) too, reporting more positive feelings about themselves and their abilities to (56) their goals for the future.A) maintainB) brilliantC) cooperativeD) claimE) aidF) selectedG) retainH) abruptlyI) creditsJ) fulfilled K) benefits L) accomplish M) released N) naturally O) funded

填空题Eisenhower once believed that a national highway system would ensure military success in national defense.

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填空题The society has assisted older workers to retire and use leisure time to retain and recruit them.

填空题The individual's age, size, ______and environmental temper will influence the amount offluid one person needs each day.

填空题Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the greatest (36) who ever lived. He thought that people could be free when they wrote music. Before his time, music was composed for a special (37) . Often it was church music. Or, music was written to (38) at parties and concerts. Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770. He was a very musical child. The boy learned to play the (39) and piano, but he was not happy at home. His mother died when he was in his teens. After that, his father was often drunk and (40) . Beethoven became a (41) in a rich family. His student's mother was very kind to the young teacher. She helped him meet many famous (42) . One of them was Mozart. He said, "That boy will give the world something worth listening to." When Beethoven was in his twenties, he began to go deaf. The deafness changed his behaviors. He became (43) and moody. (44) . Beethoven died when he was 57 years old. (45) . (46)