填空题I never go past my old school without______________________(想起我的英语老师)。

填空题Thirst Grows for Living Unplugged More people are taking breaks from the connected life amid the stillness and quiet of retreats like the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. A. About a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion de-signer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on "Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow." Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most interested in, he began, was stillness and quiet. B. A few months later, I read an interview with the well-known cutting-edge designer Philippe Starck. What allowed him to remain so consistently ahead of the curve? "I never read any magazines or watch TV," he said, perhaps with a little exaggeration. "Nor do I go to cocktail parties, dinners or anything like that." He lived outside conventional ideas, he implied, because "I live alone mostly, in the middle of nowhere." C. Around the same time, I noticed that those who part with $2285 a night to stay in a cliff-top room at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California, pay partly for the privilege of not having a TV in their rooms; the future of travel, I"m reliably told, lies in "black-hole resorts," which charge high prices precisely because you can"t get online in their rooms. D. Has it really come to this? The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Internet rescue camps in South Korea and China try to save kids addicted to the screen. Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago. Even Intel experimented in 2007 with conferring four uninterrupted hours of quiet time ( no phone or e-mail) every Tuesday morning on 300 engineers and managers. Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send email, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think. E. The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen. Nicholas Carr notes in his book The Shallows. The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. Since luxury is a function of scarcity, the children of tomorrow will long for nothing more than intervals of freedom from all the blinking machines, streaming videos and scrolling headlines that leave them feeling empty and too full all at once. F. The urgency of slowing down—to find the time and space to think—is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries," the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, "and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries." He also famously remarked that all of man"s problems come from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone. G. When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content, Henry David Thoreau reminded us that "the man whose horse trots (奔跑) a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages." Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, "When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself." We have more and more ways to communicate, but less and less to say. Partly because we are so busy communicating. And we are rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines. H. So what to do? More and more people I know seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation (沉思), or tai chi (太极); these aren"t New Age fads (时尚事物) so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age. Two friends of mine observe an "Internet sabbath (安息日)" every week, turning off their online connections from Friday night to Monday morning. Other friends take walks and "forget" their cellphones at home. I. A series of tests in recent years has shown, Mr. Can" points out, that after spending time in quiet rural settings, subjects "exhibit greater attentiveness, stronger memory and generally improved cognition. Their brains become both calmer and sharper. " More than that, empathy (同感，共鸣), as well as deep thought, depends (as neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have found) on neural processes that are "inherently slow". J. I turn to eccentric measures to try to keep my mind sober and ensure that I have time to do nothing at all (which is the only time when I can see what I should be doing the rest of the time). I have yet to use a cellphone and I have never Tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day"s writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot. None of this is a matter of asceticism (苦行主义); it is just pure selfishness. Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music. It is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk (僧侣) David Steindl-Rast describes as "that kind of happiness that doesn"t depend on what happens." K. It is vital, of course, to stay in touch with the world. But it is only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it. For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year—often for no longer than three days—to a Benedictine hermitage (修道院), 40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn. I don"t attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or any-where; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by step-ping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them. The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago, I happened to meet with a youngish-looking man with a 3-year-old boy around his shoulders. L. "You"re Pico, aren"t you?" the man said, and introduced himself as Larry; we had met, I gathered, 19 years before, when he had been living in the hermitage as an assistant to one of the monks. "What are you doing now?" I asked. We smiled. No words were necessary. "I try to bring my kids here as often as I can," he went on. The child of tomorrow, I realized, may actually be ahead of us, in terms of sensing not what is new, but what is essential.

填空题On the evening before All Saints" Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a 1 one wanted to argue. Today a doctoral thesis is both an idea and an 2 of a period of original research. Writing one is the aim of the hundreds of thousands of students who 3 on a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) every year. In most countries a PhD is a basic requirement for a career in academia. It is an introduction to the world of independent research—a kind of 4 masterpiece, created by an apprentice in close collaboration with a supervisor. The requirements to complete one vary 5 between countries, universities and even subjects. Some students will first have to spend two years working on a master"s degree or diploma. Some will receive a stipend (生活津贴) ; others will pay their own way. Some PhDs 6 only research, some require classes and examinations and some require the student to teach undergraduates. A thesis can be dozens of pages in mathematics, or many hundreds in history. As a result, newly minted PhDs can be as young as their early 20s or world-weary forty-somethings. One thing many PhD students have in common is 7 . Some describe their work as "slave labour". Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. Whining PhD students are nothing new, but there seem to be 8 problems with the system that produces research doctorates (the practical "professional doctorates" in fields such as law, business and medicine have a more obvious value). There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders 9 about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics 10 research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes. A. account B. acquisition C. aggressively D. cognitive E. compare F. complain G. contain H. dissatisfaction I. embark J. enormously K. genetic L. genuine M. intellectual N. involve O. position

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填空题According to the passage we can see that Liu Xiang has had______experiences before reaching world - wide fame.

填空题Da Vinci was the first robotic system to be applied and approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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填空题Halloween used to be something quite different from the celebration of sugary greed that goes on today. Earlier in this century, Halloween was a night when boys played tricks on their neighbors. These tricks were (47) , but more closely resembled practical jokes. For example, the boys might lift an outhouse off its foundations and move it to someone else's yard, or they might (48) a door from its hinge and leave it on the owner's roof. Such tricks required skill and planning, and the victims were (49) neighbors or relatives. Usually, the boys do this to knock back what the adults bad done to them which they thought wrong. Thus, Halloween became a night when young people took their " (50) " on adults in a way that was, for the most part, permitted by the community. But as time passed by, Halloween lost most of its original traditions. Today, the only remnant is found in the "trick or treat" greetings of (51) candy collectors. The action associated with the holiday has (52) into destructive behavior, such as tire-cutting and window breaking. These kinds of actions require no skill or intelligence. The small offerings -- an apple or a piece of cake which people gave in exchange for protection from practical jokes, trick or treaters never satisfied them. Instead they demand handfuls of commercial candy bars from people, many of them strangers, on the collecting route. But the most alarming and unpleasant aspect of the new Halloween is that it (53) evil-doing and food in the worst way. More criminal do some (54) things -- put pins into candy bars and razors into apple-pies which caused people to (55) this holiday to some extent. Halloween turns into an occasion of fear and nervousness. It seems that Halloween has been transformed into an event that brings out in us, not harmless fun, but a combination of eating too much, greed, and occasional (56) .[A] assembles[F] vicious [K] costumed[B] combines[G] terror [L] casually[C] usually[H] trick [M] remove[D] destructive[I] resent [N] exclude[E] imaginative[J] revenge [O] degenerated

填空题You should____________(把那颗牙拔了) now that it troubles you a lot.

填空题Internet of Things Era Is Coming A. From meat thermometers monitored with a smart phone to Wi-Fi-equipped dog collars, devices and services in homes and businesses are increasingly being connected to the Internet, a long-awaited trend that is causing a surge of optimism in the tech sector. B. Large and small companies are churning out a number of Internet-connected gadgets, a central theme as the Consumer Electronics Show opens this week in Las Vegas. Devices on the market or the drawing board include smart door locks, toothbrushes, wristwatches, fitness trackers, smoke detectors, surveillance cameras, ovens, toys and robots. C. But the much-ballyhooed Internet of Things still is largely a collection of possibilities. Sales of the new-wave products are threatened by a number of stumbling blocks that could slow investment—from conflicting wireless-communications standards to debates about how much processing power should be built into gadgets. D. Some industry executives say privacy concerns may be even more serious, without a consensus on how to exploit all the data that could be generated by a flood of new sensors and Internet-connected video cameras. "Big data is worth absolutely nothing without big judgment", says Joseph Bradley, director of what Cisco Systems Inc. calls its "Internet of Everything" consulting practice. Nonetheless, heavyweights like General Electric Co., Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. are jockeying for position. "I"ve never seen our industry go as fast as it is, or create as much value," says Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com Inc. "It"s a very magical time." E. Cisco estimates that the number of devices connected to the Internet will swell from about 10 billion today to 50 billion by 2020, as wireless links spread beyond smart phones and PCs to many other kinds of devices. The Silicon Valley giant"s chief executive, John Chambers, is expected to discuss the opportunities Tuesday in a keynote speech at CES. F. Gartner Inc. puts the number of connected devices at fewer than 30 billion, but sees $309 billion in additional revenue for product and service suppliers by 2020 and $1.9 trillion in total economic impact from cost savings, improved productivity and other factors. G. The vision of a world of smart gadgets emerged even before the Web. A.C. "Mike" Markkula, a co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., had a brainstorm in the mid-1980s about combining functions for networking and controlling devices on a single chip. Those "neurons", as they came to be called, were expected to spread widely once their cost fell to around $1. But the company he founded, Echelon Corp., didn"t hit that target and has had a bumpy history. "I keep kicking myself," he says, "I was 20 years too soon." H. Chip makers did steadily push down the cost of adding intelligence to everyday gadgets, often to less than $5. Another driver has been the onslaught of smart phones and tablets, which can serve as handy Web-connected remote controls for devices in the home and workplace. Potential benefits range from fairly prosaic to profound. Consumers, for example, can now use smart phones to remotely check if they locked doors, left the lights on or turned down the thermostat. Retailers can help smart phone users find goods on store shelves, and wirelessly pitch sales promotions. Parking meters can communicate with smart phone users. I. Companies like Silver Spring Networks Inc. sell wireless meters to manage energy usage, while GE exploits data generated by sensors to monitor the health of jet engines and gas turbines. The opportunities have attracted a number of startups, some of which have managed to raise substantial funding from venture capitalists. The best-known is Nest Labs Inc., a maker of Wi-Fi-equipped thermostats and smoke detectors led by former Apple Inc. executive Tony Fadell. Another example is August, which is developing smart door locks and has raised $10 million to date. J. Others are leaning heavily on crowd funding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, as investors worry about the potential costs of hatching hardware startups—and the likelihood that entrenched companies will adapt their existing products to dominate Internet-of-Things opportunities. "The body count is quite high of startups that have made hardware," says Jason Johnson, August"s CEO and founder of the Internet of Things Consortium. K. For those reasons, some startups are developing new services to help manage connected devices, while existing companies are modifying business models to exploit the data likely to flow from them. Insurance companies, for example, can respond to sensors and wireless connections in cars to charge drivers by the mile and speed they drive, instead of by where they live. "The value of the devices will be secondary to the services they enable," says Thomas Lee, a Stanford University professor of electrical engineering and co-founder of Ayla Networks Inc., an online service hoping to help turn ordinary products into cloud-connected devices. L. So far, however, smart-home products seem mainly to be attracting technology enthusiasts. Only 1% to 2% of American consumers surveyed by Forrester Research in mid-2013 were using five widely touted home-automation offerings. Some 28% of respondents said they were interested in controlling appliances with a smartphone, but 53% weren"t. Other hurdles face companies tackling the Internet of Things, including a fragmented assortment of wireless communications technologies. In home automation, for example, device makers face options that include Insteon, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigby, Z-Wave and earlier proprietary technologies. M. "It"s not that things aren"t getting connected—they are getting connected badly," says Rob Chandhok, president of Qualcomm"s interactive platforms unit. Qualcomm is trying to rally hardware makers around a technology called AllJoyn to help devices discover each other and collaborate. Meanwhile, startups trying to sell their own control devices are going through contortions; Revolv Inc., for example, is marketing a hub that can communicate using seven different radio technologies. N. Mike Soucie, Revolv"s co-founder and marketing head, says agreements on key communications technologies may be five to 10 years away. Any standards that do emerge are likely to apply to a single market—like home security or transportation—rather than to many industries, predicts Gilad Meiri, chief executive of Neura Inc., a startup developing technology to help orchestrate connected devices. O. Assuming devices can communicate, manufacturers need conventions for telling them what to do and how to work together. Meanwhile, other basic questions remain—like just how much intelligence should everyday devices have? Companies like Intel and ARM Holdings PLC, which license technology to chip makers, stress the benefits brought by processors that can run sophisticated software and protocols that allow them to connect directly to the Internet. P. But others believe such complex technology can reduce the reliability of home appliances and other devices, while raising the odds of bugs or security holes that could be exploited by attackers. They prefer simpler chips called microcontrollers, which are harder to reprogram to do unintended things. "I want my refrigerator to be a thing; I don"t want it to be a computer," says Shane Dyer, chief executive of Arrayent Inc., a startup marketing a Web-based service to manage microcontroller-powered devices. Q. Moreover, the data generated by connected devices could be used in ways consumers don"t like and create liabilities for companies. Chris Bruce, chief executive of Sproutling—a startup developing a smart phone-connected baby monitor—wonders if services that store data from connected devices might get subpoenas if something bad happens. There are at least as many questions about the fast-growing flood of data from Interact-connected security cameras. R. "It is more than a little creepy," says David Alan Grier, an associate professor of science and technology policy at George Washington University and 2013 president of the IEEE Computer Society. "There is going to have to be some clear thinking and some clear understanding of what is going on."

填空题How do universities and companies understand the nature of business now?

填空题Why are students in this period of life lack frankness and very sensitive but hate to admit it?

填空题The grant and enforcement of intellectual property rights are different in different countries.