填空题David found the book enlightening，it ______ (有很多关于这个学科的知识).

填空题New York is the most populous (人口多的) city in the United States, in a metropolitan area that ranks among the world"s most-populous urban areas. It is a leading global city, 1 a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, and entertainment. The city is also an important center for international 2 , hosting the United Nations headquarters. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, the city 3 five distinct areas. New York is largely unique among American cities for its high use of mass 4 , and the overall density and diversity of its population. The city is sometimes 5 "The City That Never Sleeps" due to its extensive 24-hour subway system and constant traffic and people. Founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1624, it 6 the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the nation"s largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty 7 millions of immigrants as they came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wall Street has been a 8 global financial center since World War II. Today, the city has many renowned (著名的) landmarks and 9 that are world famous. The city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the twin towers of the former World Trade Center. New York is the 10 of many cultural movements in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism in painting, and hip-pop, disco music, etc.

填空题___________________________, they have done a good job.(考虑到他们缺乏经验)

填空题The wood was so rotten that ____________ (我们一拉，它就碎成了小块).

填空题What is the consequence of the combination of man's organization capability and his blind rage?

填空题Oprah Winfrey is the undisputed master of interviewing and no one could argue that this great communicator was born into circumstances that would 11 her success. Rather, her 12 rise to stardom (明星的地位) came about as a result of a number of personal factors that would be a good sign for anyone seeking employment to 13 . So, as you prepare for your next interview, remember the experts" advice. The following are three characteristics that set this media queen apart. These same factors will help you to 14 yourself in a job interview and set you up as the candidate of choice. Do your due diligence: Oprah 15 herself on thorough preparation and doing her homework down to the last detail. As you ready yourself for your job interview, make certain you know well about the job 16 and are prepared to target your response to the interviewer"s initial background probe. Personality is a major plus: Oprah shows an aura of professionalism 17 personal warmth. Her body language 18 her energy and engagement in the conversation. She smiles often and easily. Ask the right questions: Here"s where you can really use Oprah"s style to 19 . Your job interview is your opportunity to sell yourself to the emplyer"s needs. But it can be difficult to thoroughly understand the specifics of what the hiring manager is looking for. The job description will provide you with a general idea, however you"ll want to ask the right questions to 20 a bit deeper and uncover the details.

填空题Many scientists believed that they could produce an anti-AIDS vaccine that could be given to people to ______the disease.

填空题Over a third of the population was estimated ______ (没有机会享受医疗保健服务).

填空题______(要不是有这个周密的计划)，the project could never be completed in time.

填空题The suggestion has been made_________________________ (推迟篮球比赛).

填空题More than 100000 international students will spend this summer working and traveling in the United States. They 1 the Summer Work Travel program through the State Department. The program has 2 for years. This year there are some changes. The State Department recently amended the employment rules. These changes follow a 3 last summer by foreign students working at a distribution center for Hershey"s chocolates. The State Department said the students were put to work for long hours in jobs that provided little or no 4 with the outside world. The students complained about having to lift heavy boxes and to work overnight. They and other workers 5 conditions at the plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania. The students also complained about being underpaid as a result of deductions from their 6 Some of their pay had to go to subcontractors 7 the operations. The State Department has now banned the use of Summer Work Travel students in warehouses or packaging plants. More jobs will be banned in the fall. These include most 8 , manufacturing and food processing jobs. Summer Work Travel students will also not be allowed to work in most mining and agricultural jobs. Daniel Costa at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington welcomed the new limits on jobs that the students can fill. He also praised a requirement that employers only fill 9 or seasonal jobs with Summer Work Travel students. He noted that some employers have 10 hired new student workers to avoid having to hire regular full-time employees. The State Department"s changes will help return the program to its original purpose as a cultural exchange program.

填空题Reading the World in 196 Books A. Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge—to read a book from every country in the world in one year. She describes the experience and what she learned. B. I used to think of myself as a fairly cosmopolitan sort of person, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and the odd Australian and South African book, my literature collection consisted of British and American titles. C. Worse still, I hardly ever tackled anything in translation. My reading was confined to stories by English-speaking authors. D. So, at the start of 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country (well, all 195 UN-recognised states plus former UN member Taiwan) in a year to find out what I was missing. E. With no idea how to go about this beyond a sneaking suspicion that I was unlikely to find publications from nearly 200 nations on the shelves of my local bookshop, I decided to ask the planet"s readers for help. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English. F. The response was amazing. Before I knew it, people all over the planet were getting in touch with ideas and offers of help. Some posted me books from their home countries. Others did hours of research on my behalf. In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan"s Ak Welsapar and Panama"s Juan David Morgan, sent me unpublished translations of their novels, giving me a rare opportunity to read works otherwise unavailable to the 62% of Brits who only speak English. G. Even with such an extraordinary team of bibliophiles behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task. For a start, with translations making up only around 4.5 per cent of literary works published in the UK and Ireland, getting English versions of stories was tricky. Small states H. This was particularly true for francophone and lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) African countries. There"s precious little on offer for states such as the Comoros, Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique—I had to rely on unpublished manuscripts for several of these. I. And when it came to the tiny island nation of Sao Tome & Principe, I would have been stuck without a team of volunteers in Europe and the US who translated a book of short stories by Santomean writer Olinda Beja just so that I could have something to read. J. Then there were places where stories are rarely written down. If you"re after a good yam in the Marshall Islands, for example, you"re more likely to go and ask the local iroij"s (chief"s) permission to hear one of the local storytellers than you are to pick up a book. K. Similarly, in Niger, legends have traditionally been the preserve of griots (expert narrators-cure-musicians trained in the nation"s lore from around the age of seven). Written versions of their fascinating performances are few and far between—and can only ever capture a small part of the experience of listening for yourself. L. If that wasn"t enough, politics threw me the odd curveball too. The foundation of South Sudan on 9 July 2011—although a joyful event for its citizens, who had lived through decades of civil war to get there—posed something of a challenge. Lacking roads, hospitals, schools or basic infrastructure, the six-month-old country seemed unlikely to have published any books since its creation. If it hadn"t been for a local contact putting me in touch with writer Julia Duany, who penned me a bespoke short story, I might have had to catch a plane to Juba and try to get someone to tell me a tale face to face. M. All in all, tracking down stories like these took as much time as the reading and blogging. It was a tall order to fit it all in around work and many were the nights when I sat bleary-eyed into the small hours to make sure I stuck to my target of reading one book every 1.87 days. Head space N. But the effort was worth it. As I made my way through the planet"s literary landscapes, extraordinary things started to happen. Far from simply armchair travelling, I found I was inhabiting the mental space of the storytellers. In the company of Bhutanese writer Kunzang Choden, I wasn"t simply visiting exotic temples, but seeing them as a local Buddhist would. Transported by the imagination of Galsan Tschinag, I wandered through the preoccupations of a shepherd boy in Mongolia"s Altai Mountains. With Nu Nu Yi as my guide, I experienced a religious festival in Myanmar from a transgender medium"s perspective. O. In the hands of gifted writers, I discovered, bookpacking offered something a physical traveller could hope to experience only rarely: it took me inside the thoughts of individuals living far away and showed me the world through their eyes. More powerful than a thousand news reports, these stories not only opened my mind to the nuts and bolts of life in other places, but opened my heart to the way people there might feel. P. And that in turn changed my thinking. Through reading the stories shared with me by bookish strangers around the globe, I realised I was not an isolated person, but part of a network that stretched all over the planet. Q. One by one, the country names on the list that had begun as an intellectual exercise at the start of the year transformed into vital, vibrant places filled with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. Lands that had once seemed exotic and remote became close and familiar to me—places I could identify with. At its best, I learned, fiction makes the world real.

填空题Observation posts have been set up alongside the most dangerous craters to ______.

填空题What does success mean for Americans?

填空题Harlem Renaisance refers to a period lasting for more than 10 years, during which a group of African and American writers produced a lot of literary works.

填空题Why Can"t American Students Compete? Twice as many students in Singapore are proficient in math as in the United States. A. "We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time," President Obama said in his State of the Union address this year. "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world." Yet despite the economic crisis facing the country, the US educational system remains frozen in place, unable to adapt to contemporary global realities. B. As all schoolchildren know, water freezes to solid, barren, cracked ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (华氏温度). So maybe it is more than a mere coincidence that 32 percent of US public and private-school students in the class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD.. The United States ranks between Portugal and Italy and far behind South Korea, Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands. C. We became aware of the seriousness of the problem after we equated, with the help of colleagues, the test scores of the class of 2011 on the latest international test when this class was in 10th grade, with its prior eighth-grade scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an official US test that both assesses performance of US students and sets the standard for "proficiency". D. Linking these tests also allowed us to compare the performance of students in each state with that of students in other countries. The results are scary. Even in Massachusetts, with its famous collection of public and private schools, students reach only the level attained by students in the entire nations of Canada, Japan, and Switzerland. Massachusetts, the only US state with a majority of students (51 percent) above the proficiency mark, trails well behind students in South Korea and Finland. E. The percentage proficient in the state of New York (30 percent) is equivalent to that achieved by students in debt-ridden Portugal and Spain. California, the home of highly skilled Silicon Valley, has a math proficiency rate of 24 percent, the same as bankrupt Greece and just a notch (等级) above struggling Russia. F. President Obama, to his credit, has highlighted the problem repeatedly. But too many state education officials have done their best to obfuscate (故意混淆) the low performance of their students. Under the educational accountability rules set down by the federal law No Child Left Behind, each state may set its own proficiency standard, and most have set their standards well below the world-class level. As a result, most state proficiency reports grossly increase the percentage of students who are proficient, if we account for the fact that our students need to compete not just with others from the same state but also with those across the globe. G. When not obfuscating the problem, apologists explain away the results with misleading arguments. Some point to the country"s large immigrant and disadvantaged populations, which, to be sure, do pose difficult educational challenges. Proficiency rates among African-Americans and Hispanics are very low (11 and 15 percent, respectively). But if one compares only the white students in the US with all students in other countries, the US still falls short: only 42 percent are proficient, which would place them at 17th in the world compared with all of the students in other nations. The only positive sign is the majority of Asian students in the United States (52 percent) who score at or above the proficiency level. H. When our results were first released, one school-board member in Loudoun County, a wealthy suburb of Washington D. C., explained away the results: "In many countries, poor-performing children are filtered out of high school, whereas in the US, we test all our students, both great and not so great. So the comparison is not on a level playing field." That might have been true some decades ago when only a few countries followed the United States" emphasis on universal education and thus left many students out of school and unavailable for testing. But today the US actually graduates fewer students from high school than the average developed country, completely eliminating any claim that the US is testing a broader range of the youth population. I. Some also take false comfort in the belief that it takes only a limited number of high-flying students to fill the jobs at Google, Facebook, IBM, and all the other businesses and professions that need highly skilled talent. The United States is still great at producing the advanced students needed to power economic growth. J. Still others say the low math scores are offset by a better record in reading. Admittedly the proficiency rate in only 10 countries is significantly higher than in the US. If not the world leader, the United States" record is at least better than average. Nonetheless, the set of skills most needed for sustained growth in economic productivity—and the skills in shortest supply today—are those rooted in math competencies. Our future scientists and engineers—the engine of US innovation—come from those with high math skills. While Silicon Valley could possibly be fueled by importing skilled workers from abroad, we should not continue to count on this in today"s globalized world. Even if we could, it is hardly fair to our own young people to count them out of the country"s best jobs. K. According to our best calculations, the US could enjoy a remarkable increase in its annual per capita GDP growth by enhancing the math proficiency of its students. Increasing the percentage of proficient students to the levels attained in Canada and South Korea would increase the annual US growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and 1.3 percentage points, respectively. L. When translated into dollar terms according to the historical patterns, we see very different futures for the United States, depending on whether or not our schools are improved. If one calculates increases in national income from projections over an 80-year period (providing for a 20-year delay before any school reform is completed and newly proficient students begin their working careers), the present value of gains amounts to some $75 trillion for reaching the performance levels of Canada. These additions can be compared with our current GDP of $15 trillion or the $1 trillion spent to stimulate the economy out of recession. M. It is easy for political leaders to put off considerations of effective school reform. The economic benefits from reform would not be felt immediately, as it takes time for an educated generation to become a productive workforce. But just as the continuing debt crisis, if not fixed, will be out of control only over the longer term, so the best available solution to that crisis—a fully unfrozen, high-functioning, constantly improving educational system—could raise the level of human capital to the point where resources would be available to address much of this future debt crisis. In the simplest terms, the approaching financial crises with Social Security and Medicare are most effectively dealt with by enhanced growth of the economy, growth that will not be achieved without a highly skilled workforce.

填空题Right now ￡4 million has been spent targeting Britain's party drinkers. A hard-hitting (36) of adverts warns that excessive drinkers could risk horrifying (37) , and there could be health warnings on bottles of wine, or spirits. This is the government's first national alcohol (38) movement. An actor in a reporter (39) provides the drama, the Hollywood entertainer man then (40) the shock factor. Despite the inevitable thought, the punch line is surprisingly (41) . "Drink, have a good time! But know your limits!" The (42) audiences, consumers arc in the 18 to 24 age range. This is what the young people themselves are saying, this is what would make a difference to the behavior of people when they've had too much to drink. Don't think you're (43) , know your limits. Don't pretend to be brave. What about this then? (44) . But the drinks industry wouldn't accept hard-hitting messages like this. We are more likely to see slogans asking us to behave sensibly. Still, (45) . Using worldwide scientific research, the report gives a score of ZERO with regard to effectiveness. But it goes on to say that these techniques do have a surprising consequence since media approaches are important to gain public support for policy changes. So the researchers say the ads may not convince us to drink less, (46) like stricter drink-driving laws, higher taxes on alcohol, or restrictions on the sale of alcohol.