Rosemary is______fatter than she was when I first met her.

Visitors from the US have increased______8 percent since last year.

The view from the top of a mountain______the man and captures his emotion.

Your comments______ my work have proved to be helpful.

Hardly had I turned around the corner and______my dog when he dashed towards me.

I would have told him about the change of time for the class, ______to class last time.

Stress and______are symptoms of life in modern society.

When he entered the room he found a cat_____quietly under the desk.

如果遇难者被及时送往医院的话，他本来会有机会活下来的。

We have beer, coke, and some soft drinks. Please make yourself______.

In China it is relatively usual to ask people their age, but in the West this question is generally regarded as impolite. This is particularly true【C1】______women, and even more so? if the inquirer is a man. However, it is very【C2】______to ask children their age, and some adults may not mind being asked either. In fact, some elderly people are quite happy to【C3】______their age, especially if they feel they look young for their age. Nevertheless, it is not very wise to ask a(n) 【C4】______question like " How old are you". If elderly people want to talk about their age, and perhaps receive a compliment on how young they look, they may easily【C5】______the topic themselves, and ask the other person to guess how old they are. For such a question, it is quite acceptable to discuss age【C6】______They normally expect to be complimented on their youthfulness, though rather than【C7】______that they look very old! 【C8】______Westerners do not usually ask people directly how old they are, this does not mean that they are not interested to know how old other people are. They may ask someone else for the information,【C9】______they may try to approach the topic indirectly. Sometimes discussions about educational background and the number of years of working experience may provide some clues, but this is not always the【C10】______.

They set a goal for their listening, and they generate predictions about what the speaker will say.

I think I will do it myself______asking him for help.

If the Europeans thought a drought—a long period of dry weather—was something that happened only in Africa, they know better now. After four years of below-normal rainfall(in some cases only 10 percent of annual average), vast areas of Europe are dry and barren(贫瘠). Water is so low in the canals of northern France that waterway traffic is forbidden except on weekends. Oyster(牡蛎)grows in Brittany report a 30 percent drop in production because of the loss of fresh water in local rivers necessary for oyster breeding. In southeastern England, the rolling green hills of Kent have turned so brown that officials have been weighing plans to pipe in water from Wales. In Portugal, farmers in the southern Alentejo region have held prayer meeting for rain—so far, in vain. Governments in drought-spread countries are taking severe measures. Authorities in hard-hit areas of France have banned washing cars and watering lawns. In Britain, water will soon be metered, like gas and electricity, "The English have always taken water for granted, " says Graham Warren, a spokesman of Britain's National Rivers Authority. "Now they're putting a price on it. " Even a sudden end to the drought would not end the misery in some areas. It will take several years of unusually rain, the experts say, just to bring existing water reserves up to their normal levels.

We've tested three hundred types of boots, ______completely waterproof.

春天是游览这个城市的最佳季节。

It's impossible for anyone to be______by such an obvious lie.

The idea sounds very good but will it work in______?

Don't smoke in the classroom,____?

Scientist now have some surprising answers about whether brain power______as we get older.