填空题 {{B}}Text{{/B}} The national delight in gregarious ritual means that hardly a day passes in Italy without some communities of even a few hundred souls celebrating stone village-shaking event, here are some of the most colorful festivals of Italy. Florence's Calcio in costume: It has been played in the city since it was colonized by Roman and it is said to be the ancestor of football. The game was originally Greek and was adopted by the Romans, who, in turn, introduced it in Florence. The ancient game has serious rules and requires long training for the paler. The rules were modified by the 1400', and for two centuries thereafter it was the pastime of nobles elegantly costumed in clothes with silver and gold trimmings. At the beginning of the 18th century the game lost its noble characteristic and became the game of the people. Today this spectacular football game is played annually with much of antique glory revived. Le Saga del cuochi del Sangro: In villa Santa Maria, Aruzze, for three days every year in early October, gifted master chefs who hail from this small town return to their hometown to demonstrate their art in an appetizing festival that honors culinary talents stretching back to Renaissance. Carnival, Virago, Tuscanu: During the three weekends before lent, this summer seaside resort is a whirl of carnival costume, confetti and floats that climaxes during a grand Sunday afternoon parade of leering acumen, pert majorette, and immense floats that demonstrate coastal viareggio's shipbuilding expertise. Vendemmia del Nonno, castagnole Monferrato Piedmont: The second Sunday of October, while the tangy odor of pressed grapes suffuses the streets of small towns all over Italy, this village enacts an authentic old-fashioned grape harvest, a Vendemmia de Nonno, the way grandfather used to do it. Falily groups work together in the vineyards heap carts high with the richly colored fruit, trample it with bare feet, and feast raucously at day's end at a communality supper. Maggio Musicale Fiorentirio, Florence: Programs at this event, Italy's answer to the king of European music festivals at Salzburg, are so diverse that they seem a conscious attempt to avoid musical chauvinism: some of the concerts are held in the magical Boboli gardens — lovely and guint essentially Italian, especially on a June evening. Despite a name that translates "Florentine Musical May", they going on continue right through June.A. It is Italian Salzburg Music FestivalB. It celebrates in memory of ancient great cooks.C. It originated in Greece.D. It's a movable festivalE. It starts in Jane.F. The parade held on Sunday afternoon is the climax of this festival.G. A sacred thanksgiving rite is held.

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填空题Peter: The future will not determine itself; The future is determined by the actions of the present days. The responsibility we have for the future begins when we recognize that we ourselves create the future--that the future is not something imposed upon us by fate or other forces beyond our control. We ourselves build the future both through what we do and what we do not do.Simon: The future will see more unbelievable things. In the future people will be able to predict their performance from the strength of the brain's electrical activity can be measured through the scalp (头皮). Bosses could measure brain activity and tell whether a worker is performing well, working hard, or too tired to do the job properly.Alan: In the new century, things around us will be more fascinating. The chemical gelatin (胶原蛋白) in the brain is said to increase your desire for fat, when it is stimulated. This means that disturbances (失调) of this chemical gelatin can lead to overeating. Doctor Green presented an academic paper suggesting that the appetite for fat-rich food can be controlled through drugs that block the effects of galatin.Nick: In the future our life will change greatly. It is quite certain that computers will play an important role in our life. You will visit your doctor, and find that he uses a computer screen and visual information about your condition, instead of his note books. Computers in your home will enable you to answer interactive questions about your health and show the alternative results which will affect you if you act in a certain way.Julie: In the future, computers will change the way the doctors diagnose (诊断) and treat their patients. Also doctors will change their traditional notion of medicine. Although pulls for tension, heart conditions, being overweight and other life-threatening conditions are prescribed by western doctors, most doctors now require patients to focus on healthy way of living by changing diets and using more exercise as a mean to keep well. Now match each of the people (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements.Statements[A] You build your own future.[B] Healthy lifestyles will be a more popular way.[C] Computer will be an effective tool for doctors.[D] Doctors may not need pills for heart troubles or overweight.[E] Your brain waves may be used to check out your work performance.[F] People will be able to visit doctors more frequently.[G] Our appetite will be well controlled by drugs.

填空题 John Charles: Here, campus life encourages wholeness and empowers students by creating a strong sense of self, of camaraderie, of community. Students, faculty, and staff emphasize the unity of our experience here in this university, whether they're playing sports; rehearsing for a play; meeting a deadline for a campus publication; debating a political issue; or gliding across the Promenade in pursuit of a lazy, floating disk.George Thomas: In every department that they care as much about how I'm developing as a person. Perhaps the biggest advantage of a university of our size is the opportunity to get to know your professors. They will know your name, helping you to achieve your goals and maximizing your experience here. And they would really care about you, and the deployment of your value system.Allan Wilfrid: Southerners just have a way of making everyone feel at home. Our university draws students from all over. Our diverse population is the result of students from 41 states and 52 countries.Next time you are on campus, take a stroll down the International Promenade and notice the flags, each representative of our students' nationalities and heritage.Wells, Ronald: The University offers 45 undergraduate majors and five graduate-degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Although the process of learning here really requires a lot from us, but it is also so rewarding that you will never trade it for anything else.Halley, Edmond: I'm part of something special here, and I'm learning what it means to be a part of something bigger than myself. You have to experience our university life to believe it. Contact our admissions staff and schedule a visit. We mean it when we say it: We can't wait to meet you! Now match each of the students (61 to 65) to the appropriate reason. Note: there are two extra reasons.A. The classes are hard, but I'm learning so much.B. There's a real sense of life here. It's dynamic.C. We have a lot of well-known professors in our university.D. Values matter in my university.E. My university is one of the best in its field.F. It's possible to make friends from different backgrounds.G. I didn't understand the importance of community until I came to my university.

填空题Lee Beaty: Your "Health For Life" articles give excellent advice on simple lifestyle changes to improve health. Whenever possible, I ride my bicycle to work. While I was a student, I also rode to class. We need to educate motorists about sharing the road with cyclists, and create bike lanes to encourage more people to go from point A to point B while getting some exercise, saving fuel and improving the environment. Roberto Anson: You had a fascinating exploration in your "Health For Life" articles. Technology often makes us give up responsibility for our health. The United States has the best medical technology but unequal access to care. The point is that, increasingly, only the healthy and well-off can afford health care. Your advice to skip the heart scan and spend the money on a health club membership shifts the focus from technology to personal responsibility. Fred Leeds: Dr Nancy Rigotti's "Kicking the Habit" is tried, but not necessarily true advice. As a former three-pack- a-day smoker, I tried these approaches many times with no success until I finally accepted a fundamental truth about myself. Only after I got my mind set to the point where my desire to quit smoking was stronger than the desire to continue was I able to put the cigarettes down. Bill Wittig: It is well documented that people with the Type D personality have chemicals in their brains that differ from those of normal people. Many of them never get mental health treatment because they work, have families and by all observable criteria are functioning well. They do not realize their problem. What might prevent the Type D personality from having a heart attack is some psychological treatment as well as fish oil. Kristin Linklater: Your magazine tells me that not only must I exercise to avoid heart attacks, but I must be happy. I must laugh a lot, or my heart will be starved of necessary chemicals. I must have friends and community to support me, or I'll certainly die soon. I tried to take the Type D personality test that will determine whether I'm going to die of negativity, but your column headings, "False, Less false, Neutral, Less true, True" make it impossible to figure out my behavior. Statements[A] You can hardly force yourself to do a thing until you feel like doing it.[B] Mental health treatment may help prevent some physical problems.[C] We'd better count more on regular exercise than medical care.[D] I'm not interested in taking any behavior test proposed in magazines.[E] Cycling is good for health as well as for our surroundings.[F] To save money and improve health, I quit driving to work.[G] I'm still puzzled as to whether your advice and the listed personality details suit me or not.

填空题Depression can make you feel all 1 in the world, especially when you are around people who think depression is all in your head. Well, it"s not. Depression is a real illness with real causes. It can appear suddenly, 2 no apparent reason. Or it can be triggered by stressful life events, like 3 a job or having a chronic illness. When you are clinically depressed, one thing that can happen is that the level of serotonin may 4 . Slowly you may have trouble sleeping. Feel 5 sad or irritable. Find mind hard to concentrate. Lose your appetite. Lack energy. Or 6 trouble feeling pleasure. These are some of the symptoms that can point to depression—especially if they last for more than a couple of weeks and if normal, everyday life feels like too much to handle. To help bring serotonin levels closer 7 normal, the medicine doctors now prescribe most often is Prozac. Prozac has been carefully studied for nearly ten years like other antidepressants, it isn"t habit-forming. But some people 8 experience mild side effects, 9 upset stomach, headache, difficulty in sleeping, drowsiness, anxiety and nervousness. These tend to go away within a few weeks of starting treatment, and usually aren"t serious 10 to make most people stop taking it. A. more B. of C. alone D. with E. that F. losing G. for H. without I. drop J. unusually K. have L. to M. do N. enough O. like

填空题 First, any habit which slows down your silent reading to the speed at which you speak, or read aloud is inefficient. If you point out each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency. One is "saying" each word silently by moving your tongue or throat or vocal cords; another is "hearing" each word as you read. These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning low letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different; it is to understand meaning. It has been estimated that up to 75% of the words in English arc not really necessary for conveying the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to seek out those key words and phrases which carry the thought and so pay less attention to words which exist only for the sake of grammatical completeness. An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. Unconsciously perhaps, he takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at time. If he "says" or "hears" words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.A. how to be an efficient readerB. when they want to emphasize themC. slow your reading speedD. understanding meaningE. seek out key words or phrasesF. how to read fastG. to form words of your own

填空题Tomson: This process of training in universities, by which the intellect, instead of being formed or sacrificed to some particular of accidental purpose, some specific trade of profession, or study or science, is disciplined for its own sake, for the perception of its own proper object, and for its own highest culture, is called Liberal Education; and though there is no one in whom it is carried as far as is conceivable, or whose intellect would be a pattern of what intellects should be made, yet there is scarcely anyone but may gain an idea of what real training is, and at least look towards it, and make its true scope and result, not something else, his standard of excellence; and numbers there are who may submit themselves to it, and secure it to themselves in good measure. Bradly: It is only understandable that parents long to see their sons and daughters with promising futures, as most students today are from single-child families. However, this eagerness can backfire if parents fail to educate their children with scientific approaches and concepts. Cases of failure in this regard survey indicates that due to lack of guidance from sound educational theory, many parents in this country are at a loss over what to do with their children's education. Many put high test scores first in family education, and know little about the need to build all-round character in their children. Fredrick: When our children's school life is weighed down with bulging schoolbags and psychological pressure, how can they take initiative? They can be emancipated only when schools and society alike begin doing something about these pressures on them. Parents should change their ways of thinking. Educating children is a science as well as an art, and is doomed if the natural laws governing children's healthy physical and mental development are violated. That is why parents should know something about education and psychology, as well as the features, standards and trends of modern education. In this regard they need the help of educators. Arusa: Public opinion plays a major role in the process of advancing character education. It provides an appropriate guide for students, parents and the public to reach a consensus on the concepts of education, and helps foster a good environment for securing public concern and support for and involvement in character education. And we hope our writers, artists and education researchers will do their part for carrying forward character education from their respective fields of work, all for the same purpose: to bring forth worthy successors to our cause. To this end the entire society is duty-bound. Jonnason: The efforts to carry out character education call for comprehensive changes in orientation, functions, institution, content and approaches. They call for sweeping changes in our understanding of values, talent and quality of education. It is a restructuring project that is of vital importance and has a far-reaching influence on the overall situation, involving people from all walks of life. Statements A. Social reforms and fundamental changes are called for when character education is to be carried out. B. Some parents are not able to educate their children with proper methods because their own opinions on education are questionable. C. The business of a university is to help all students towards the right standard according to their various capacities. D. Rational reports on newspapers or TV programs can help promote the quality of education. E. Parents need the help from educators. F. Parents are blamed if their children do not perform well at school. G. It's doubtful whether there is a link between liberal education and science education.

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填空题 {{B}}Tom Field:{{/B}} I'll never pass the exams. I'm just not clever enough. Everyone's ashamed of me now. Why do I have to be clever and be miserable all the time? Is passing exam more important than being happy? I like playing ball games, football, basketball, soccer, baseball a lot of them. I think I will be quite good at all of them if I have more time to practice instead of sitting in a miserable classroom, listening to the teachers' miserable classes. I think I will become a sportsman. And I don't see any link to connect my present situation to a good happy sportsman.{{B}}Barbara Field:{{/B}} We're all so disappointed. Those exams were so important for Tommy's career. He should have studied harder, instead of wasting most of his time playing foot-ball and computer games. He'll have to spend another year at school now, and he'll probably never get to university. We spent a lot of time and money on his education, and it's all been wasted, I am afraid. His brother is doing extremely well at school yet Tom performs badly. That's really worries his father and me.{{B}}Ian Clark:{{/B}} I am Tom's doctor. Tommy was due to take his final school examination. Instead he went into hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. He is now recovering in the hospital. This happens every time exams are held. Students play all year round and forget about their studies, and then suddenly there's a last-minute panic as they realize that the exams are looming up. Suddenly they start studying twenty hours a day, they go without sleep, they neglect their food, they don't get any natural fresh air and exercises, and naturally they get overtired and worried and they can't handle the mental strain. It would be better if the schools hold exams once a month instead of once a year. Then the children could achieve a better balance between work and play.{{B}}Nick Sharpe:{{/B}} I am Tom's friend. I'm against the whole system of exams. They test only a little of what kids learn at school. They test the ability to remember information and repeat it, but not their ability to think intelligently about what they've been taught. Biased examiners, who fail students if they don't agree with what the examiners write, regardless of how original and perceptive it may be, grade the examination papers. Many examiners grade papers in such a hurry that they don't possibly compare them in order to give lair marks. On the basis of a system like this, people are categorized for the rest of their lives as "pass" or "fail", yet for many students the exam results may have been influenced by sickness, injury, or family quarrels just before the "big day" of the exams. {{B}}Richard Kennedy:{{/B}} I am the head master of Tom's school. We notice the panic caused by examinations, which depend too much on memory and don't allow the children to develop their own personality. We have been trying to reform the whole examination system by way of basing our school reports on a system of continuous assessment through various ways, not just the final written examination. We hope in this way we can maintain a high academic standard without examinations. Yet I wondered whether this would be accepted by the society. A personnel department manager once said to me that although they base their employment decisions on a number of factors. Manners, personality and appearance are important. So is actual job experience, yet the only way they can judge applicants' intelligence, without knowing them, is by their examination record. {{B}}Now match each of the persons (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements{{/B}}[A] Students usually suffer from a nervous breakdown before the examination takes place.[B] Tom will never get to university.[C] Exams fail to make a fair and correct judgment on the ability of the student.[D] Tom's bad performance at school worries us.[E] We may find better ways than those of examination, yet it is hard to make them accepted by the society at large.[F] It's important for students to be able to keep a good balance between work and play all the time.[G] I can become a happy person without learning anything.

填空题Directions: Read the following article in which five people talk about AIDS. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each place (61 to 65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET 1. Greg Louganis: These were the trials for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Until this dive, I had been ahead. But now, something else was more significant than winning. I might have endangered other divers' lives if I have spilled blood in the pool, for what I knew—that few others knew—was that I was HIV-positive. AIDS forced me to stop diving; I had to quit diving professionally after the Olympics. Margaret Chan: It is reported that almost three million people in developing countries are now receiving drugs for HIV. This is an increase of almost one million people from two thousand and six. Still, the hope was to reach three million by two thousand and five. But antiretroviral therapy, or ART, alone will not solve the problem. For every two persons we manage to provide them with ART, another five persons get infected. So again, we cannot under-estimate the power of prevention. Paula Green. The disease robs the body of its natural defenses against infections. Almost seventy-five percent of people receiving HIV drugs are in Africa. The drugs help patients live longer without developing AIDS. An estimated nine million seven hundred thousand people in low and middle income countries were in need of HIV treatment last year. However, by the end of the year, just over thirty percent of them were getting it. Raymond Chow. Price reductions can be a main method to let more people with HIV, including more pregnant women, receive the drugs. Also, delivery systems should be redesigned to better serve individual countries and smaller health centers. And treatments should be simpler than in the past. William Wang: Huge barriers still remain in dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Getting patients to stay on their therapy is difficult. There are still large numbers of people who do not get tested for HIV. And there are many others who get tested too late and die within months. What's more, there is not enough joint treatment of HIV and the related infections that most often kill AIDS patients. And still another problem is the shortage of health care workers in the developing world. Statements A. There are still many difficulties in dealing with AIDS. B. AID patient's blood may be dangerous to other people's lives. C. People are scared of AIDS. D. Treatment is more urgent than prevention. E. Many people can't get HIV drugs because of poverty. F. The power of prevention should not be underestimated. G. HIV drugs should be cheaper.

填空题Maguel de Icaza: Free software benefits people, countries and companies by giving them complete control of the software on which they depend. This is helping close the digital divide between developed and underdeveloped countries. People who previously might never have had access to this sort of technology are already leading the efforts to bring it to the developing world. Free software is the foundation on which a fairer future and a more efficient economy is being built. Austin Hill: Welcome to the future. Your mobile phone tracks your location, your interactive TV records your viewing habits. Privacy is to the information age what environmentalism was to the industrial age. Businesses will protect themselves, and their customers, by introducing privacy-promoting technologies and building better data controls into every aspect of their operation. A leading class of privacy protectors will emerge in every industry, and both they and their customers will reap the rewards of the ethical privacy brand. Ng Ede Phang: This will be the year that plain old text e-mail sits up and starts talking — and talking a lot. The human voice is a powerful weapon. An e-mail doesn't tell me whether you're happy, sad or excited, whereas Internet voice services provide all these key emotional characteristics. The human voice adds a very powerful element to business relationship that e-mail just cannot match. Murray Goldman: For those of us who live on airplanes, a key decision is which electronic device to carry on a trip. The future is in the appropriate combination of communications and computing devices. Many business travelers will require the full computing power of a personal computer, with a screen large enough to do intensive work. As a result, lightweight notebooks have been introduced to the market with innovative options such as built-in DVDs, cameras and wireless capabilities. Christine Karman: We'll see agents on portals and community websites helping people trade goods and information. Venture capitalists are shifting from dotcom to software and hardware companies. In Europe, that shift is hard to make because we don't have a Silicon Valley from which lots of companies are conquering the world. As a consequence, the slowly emerging Internet and software industry in Europe may not survive. If I were starting a new software company now, I'd go to California or Boston. Statements[A] Business travelers will set the trend of future computer market.[B] Europe will catch up with America in the hi-tech industry.[C] Privacy needs special protection in the information age.[D] Voice e-mail adds a human touch to online communication.[E] Compactness and multi-function will be a trend in the future market.[F] Free software helps bring about digital equality.[G] The digital divide between Europe and the U.S. may widen.

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填空题Paula "I had been on a cruise before I got married and loved it," Paula S. of Brooklyn, N. Y., says. "1 wanted to go again because I knew how exciting it can be, but I could not convince my husband. He thought he would be bored. Imagine! Finally, he agreed when I put together a group of friends to go with us. He had the time of his life and was planning another cruise before we got home. If you are hesitant about taking a cruise, I say, do it. I guarantee you will love it. When you take your first cruise, and the many journeys aboard ship in the years to come, you will have wonderful memories of your own." Mrs. Johnson Two well-traveled couples from different parts of the country, who were friends form school days, decided to celebrate their 50th birthday by taking a cruise together. "We had heard so much from our friends about the service on a cruise ship, it seemed like the right atmosphere for a special occasion like ours," Mrs. Johnson, one of them explained. "It was wonderful, but what we had not anticipated was how pleasant the experience would be." Mary Mary D. and her husband Neil of Santa Monica, Calif., recently took Mary's mother on her first cruise. "1 don't know who was more thrilled. My mother is not easy to please, but she loved every minute of it. It was a joy for me to share the cruise with my husband and children and see my mother enjoying herself so much." Carrie Carrie J. from Dallas, Texas, took her first cruise with her elder sister last summer and says she knew it would be fun. "But it was much better than we ever dreamed. We never had a worry the whole week. Everybody was really friendly and made sure we had a good time. Dinner was a blast with our waiter always doing magic tricks and making us laugh with his jokes. What I liked best was having so many people my age around. My sister, who's going on 19 this year, had a good time, too. She met a guy who is now her boyfriend." Bobbie Bobbie C. and his cousin Peter from Detroit, Mich., recently took their first cruise and are "still floating." Bobbie says, "After the singles party on the first night, I thought, man, this is for me. We really had a ball. I don't think we ever slept except on deck chairs. We didn't want to miss anything. It's so easy to meet people and enjoy oneself." Now match each people (16 to 20) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements.[A] Being married I love cruise travel very much.[B] We enjoyed our dinner immensely on the cruise[C] I'm sure reluctant cruisers will like cruise travel if they take it,[D] Cruise offers chances of agreeable social interaction for bachelors.[E] I enjoy the experience of floating on the sea.[F] I was happy to share the trip with my family.[G] Our journey turned out to be a pleasant surprise.