Although I liked the appearance of the house, what really made me decide to buy it was the beautiful _____ through the window.

The government has tried to forge ______ with environmentalists.

The fire spread through the hotel very quickly but everyone ______ get out in time.

The student said there were a few points in the essay he ______ impossible to comprehend.[2007]

All the following sentences contain an adverbial clause of time EXCEPT

A. actual B. cunning C. impression D. simply E. verbal F. result G. non-verbal H. consequence I. sends off J. namely K. illusion L. fall for M. indicate N. smart O. firmest Even if you are saying and doing the right things at your job, and in your personal life, you could be making a bad【C1】______ on everyone with what you don't say. That is because of body language. Much of our reactions to others are based on【C2】______ cues. And if your body language is communicating a negative message, that is the message you could be sending, regardless of what【C3】______ words come out of your mouth. What are some of the negative messages sent via body language? Things like having arms folded across your chest can show hostility. Lack of eye contact can【C4】______ deceit. Here's the problem, though, with interpreting body language: as life coaching experts say, many of the clues that indicate negativity could also be the【C5】______ of nervousness or other issues. For example, somebody who doesn't make great eye contact could【C6】______be nervous. The same goes with a not-so-warm handshake. Or, the person who doesn't smile could be self-conscious about her teeth. At any rate, the person who【C7】______ bad body language may not even realize that they're doing it. Some people use body language to their advantage. Unfortunately, some people who do recognize what body language communicates are【C8】______ artists. They may have the【C9】______ handshake, the shiniest smile, and make the greatest eye contact to convince others of their sincerity. This is because they know how much this non-verbal communication plays a part in communicating sincerity. Unfortunately, they are not actually sincere. Yet people【C10】______ it, because their body language seems sincere.

The _____ of our trip to London was the visit to Buckingham Palace.

When you have finished with that book, don't forget to put it back on my desk, ______? （2008年考试真题）

In the broadest sense, just as archaeology is an aspect of anthropology, _____.

What makes people shun the relative security of full-time employment and start up a business themselves? The European Union wants to know, because with entrepreneurship come job creation and growth. For the past five years, the Union's head office has financed an annual poll of more than 21, 000 people on both sides of the Atlantic. The most recent of these studies, released this week, shows that despite efforts to make the Union more competitive, the majority of its citizens remain consistently less entrepreneurial and more risk-averse than their American counterparts. That's not necessarily true of all Europeans: The word entrepreneur may be French, but the poll found that people from smaller countries like Portugal, Greece, Ireland and Latvia were much more enthusiastic about working for themselves. But putting regional variations aside, the bottom line for Europe was that fewer European respondents said they would choose self-employment—45 percent said it was their preference—than their American counterparts, at 61 percent. And the most striking part of the survey was the Europeans' explanations of their responses. It has long been assumed here that red tape is holding back Europe's entrepreneurial spirit. With shorter waiting times to register companies and easier procedures for hiring, the argument goes, new European businesses would sprout like tulips in a Dutch greenhouse. The survey told a different story. Europeans essentially said they couldn't be bothered with the effort involved in starting a business:They wanted a regular, fixed income and a stable job. The upshot of this for Europe is that even if governments managed to cut red tape, their citizens might still prefer to have a comfortable job working for someone else. Only 5 percent of Europeans said fear of red tape or reluctance to battle bureaucracies was holding them back. A corollary to this is the fear of failure in Europe. Half of all European respondents agreed with the statement, "One should not start a business if there is a risk it might fail." Only one-third of Americans agreed.There were an estimated 20.5 million people working in start-up companies in the United States in 2003, the latest year for which data were available, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a London-based research organization. This is 23 times the number of those working at startups in France—far greater than the population differences between the two countries. The U. S. number was also 9 times the number of those in Britain and more than 7 times that of Germany. If Europe can successfully diminish the stigma of failure, more people would be willing to start their own businesses. "There is a completely different attitude toward risk, " said Zourek of the European Commission, comparing Europe with the United States. In Europe, "once you try a venture and you don't succeed, you don't get a second chance, but you get a stigma, " he said. The European Union, he said, should make bankruptcy procedures less burdensome and make getting credit easier for risk-takers, even those who have failed before. In this survey, 55 percent of Europeans aged 15 to 24 said that it would be"desirable"for them to become self-employed in the next five years. Among those 55 and older, only 18 percent said the same. Young Europeans could be the motor of entrepreneurship. But with European countries having some of the lowest birth rates in the developed world, who will take their place?

Irresponsible financial ______ in the US has a good claim to being the main cause of the crisis.

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If English is not our first language, you can often be puzzled by ways of expression that the native speakers of English does not even have to _____.

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So sudden ______ that people in the building had no time to escape.

Dating Dating is the【T1】______first step toward marriage. But dating and【T2】______can be hard work. So a lot of people want to go where they can meet people【T3】______.Singles may join【T4】______, or sports teams or maybe even a group for people who like to【T5】______in the woods. Some people use【T6】______ , which help people choose a【T7】______they might like. Many newspapers and magazines【T8】______messages from people who are【T9】______someone to date. There are also telephone dating services, video dating services and【T10】______dating services.

Every year, one student in our high school wins a scholarship that _____ one year of college.

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It's no use ______ me not to worry.