填空题The economic climate could deteriorate in the next few years. It is ______.

填空题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} The London terrorist attacks on July 7 and July 21 changed British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He had long been reluctant to make the fight against Islamo-fascist terror a domestic issue. Last week he outlined security measures to deal with radical clerics who incite violence. Of particular interest is a measure that read in part: "It is now necessary, in order to acquire British citizenship, that people attend a citizenship ceremony (and) swear allegiance to the country." That's not much different from U. S. law. {{U}}(66) {{/U}} This requirement would violate Section 203 of the U. S. Voting Rights Act, which requires that bilingual election materials and assistance be made available when a foreign language reaches critical mass in the general population. For example, California recall ballots in Los Angeles County were printed in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Tagalog. {{U}}(67) {{/U}} U. S. law, in effect, tells new citizens that can be fully engaged in U.S. democracy without understanding the language of its election campaigns. {{U}}(68) {{/U}} Naturalized citizens must demonstrate a fundamental understanding of U. S. history and civics. Isn't it reasonable to expect them also to be able to communicate, at a basic level, in the language of U. S. politics? {{U}}(69) {{/U}}Requiring citizens to understand basic English isn't bias. But supporting a system that encourages American citizens to accept a life without meaningful participation in politics and civic life—that's bias. To end the separatism and disengagement that flourishes in part because significant portions of his country cannot speak English, Blair wants to make basic knowledge of English a requirement for British citizenship. There can be no true national unity when citizens cannot understand each other and participate in the majority culture. {{U}} (70) {{/U}}Let's hope the United States will learn it through observation rather than bitter experience. A. Despite a growing bilingualism in English, for the most part Britain remains a monolingual nation with a long, proud linguistic and cultural tradition. B. But Blair wants to impose an additional requirement: To become a British citizen, one must "have a rudimentary grasp of the English language". C. It further suggests that secondhand knowledge of politics, through translation or others' interpretations, is an adequate substitute for the ability to hear and read about the candidates and the issues. D. A passing knowledge of English shouldn't be too much to ask of those who seek the right to vote that so many American soldiers have died to secure. E. Britain has learned that lesson—the hard way. F. The intent of Section 203 is laudable: A member of a "language minority group" should face no obstacles in exercising the franchise. But its effects are pernicious.

填空题(It can be argued) that the problems, even something (as fundamental as) the (ever-increased) world population, (have been) caused by technological advance. A. It can be argued B. as fundamental as C. ever-increased D. have been caused

填空题He said he felt sorry that he didn't arrive on time. (apologize) ______.

填空题List two ways in which verbal and non-verbal communication differ.

填空题The motivation of rapists is now (acknowledged to) be a more complex matter (than being) formerly believed; it (has come) to be widely accepted that rape is not (necessarily) the result of sexual desire.A. acknowledged toB. than beingC. has comeD. necessarily

填空题The armor, infantry and other military forces were held up by the enemy counter attack, thus caused the delay in the advance.A.other military forcesB.were held upC.the enemy counter attackD.caused

填空题When a policeman appeared at the door I was pretty taken aback. Imagine ______.

填空题Knowledge of microscopic anatomy was greatly expanded during the 20th century as a result of the development of microscopes that provided much greater resolution, arid magnification than had conventional instruments, thus revealing formerly unclear or ______ detail.(visible)

填空题{{U}}It is{{/U}} very hard to believe {{U}}that when{{/U}} Lincoln was born, communications were {{U}}a little{{/U}} faster than {{U}}in the days{{/U}} of Julius Caesar. A. It is B. that when C. a little D. in the days

填空题Because they were (unaware of) his (interests in) the building, they did net understand why he (felt) (so had). A. unaware of B. interests in C. felt D. so had

填空题Retailers (offered) deep (discounts) and extra hours this weekend (in the bid) (to lure) shoppers. A. offered B. discounts C. in the bid D. to lure

填空题Lewis Thomas was born in 1913 in Flushing, New York to a family physician and his nurse wife. He was fascinated by his father's profession, and it became a baseline for his later understanding of the dramatic changes, not always good ones in his opinion, in the practice of medicine in the twentieth century. He entered Princeton at 15 where he was an average student, but he developed an interest in poetry and literary humor, writing much "good bad verse," as he described it, for the Princeton Tiger, which showed primarily his sense of humor about undergraduate life but no particular interest in the natural world. He was admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1933, at the time when medicine was changing dramatically into a clinical science and antibiotics would soon be developed. During his internship at Boston City Hospital he supported himself by donating blood and publishing a dozen poems in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and the Saturday Evening Post. (71) He completed a residency in neurology at the Columbia Presbyterian Medieal Center and married Beryl Dawson, whom he later called his editorial collaborator, in 1941. He began his medical career as research fellow in neurology at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratories. He was called for service in 1942 with the Naval Reserve as a medical researcher assigned to the Pacific. (72) His developing interest in immunological defense mechanisms became the base of his later research; he would later write a long essay on it, "On Disease," in The Medusa and the Snail. In 1948 Thomas went to Tulane University as a researcher in microbiology and immunology. He was noted for his creativity and ability to generate original hypotheses. (73) He became head of the pathology department at New York University Medical School in 1954, where over the next fifteen years he helped transform immunology into a clinical science and built unusually collaborative and interdisciplinary research teams. He would also chair the Department of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital. (74) However, he never abandoned his clinical and research concerns, and moved to Yale in 1969 to continue research in the pathogenesis of mycoplasma diseases. In 1971, while Thomas was chairman of the Department of Pathology at the Yale Medical School, his friend Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the editor Of the New England Journal of Medicine, asked him to write a monthly essay, called "Notes of a Biology Watcher." Each essay would be about 1,000 words, firing a page of the Journal; there would be no pay, but there would also be no editing of his work. (75) A. Lewis Thomas died in 1993 after a life of remarkable accomplishment.B. After the war he went to Johns Hopkins to practice pediatrics and conduct research on rheumatic fever.C. He became Dean of the NYU School of Medicine, beginning an administrative career.D. Most of these lyrical poems were about medical experiences, death, and war.E. In 1950 he joined the University of Minnesota to continue his research on rheumatic fever.F. That was a deal that Thomas said he could not resist.

填空题Few numbers tell a happier story than those that measure life expectancy. An American born in 1900 could expect to live 47 years. Thanks to colossal improvements in sanitation and medicine, that figure is now 75 for men and 80 for women. (71) So it is both alarming and surprising when life expectancy falls, even for a small part of the population. Yet that is what some researchers at Harvard have found. They looked at death rates by county, having corrected for migration and merged sparsely populated ones so that America's 3,141 counties became 2,068 "county units". (72) But between 1983 and 1999, it fell significantly (by about a year) for women in 180 county units, and stagnated in another 783. Men fared less poorly, their life expectancy fell significantly in only 11 county units, and stagnated in another 48. Put differently, life expectancy appears to have either stagnated or fallen slightly for some 4% of American men and 19% of women. The main culprits are diseases linked to smoking or obesity, such as lung cancer and diabetes. (73) Majid Ezzati, one of the study's authors, says it is too soon to say. An optimist would point out that women took up smoking later than men. It was not until after the Second World War that they started puffing at anything like the male rate. The increase of poor women now dying of lung cancer may be a hangover from the end of the taboo on female smoking. (74) A pessimist would reply that the other big killer, obesity, keeps spreading, especially among the poor. "We've been saying for ages that it must have peaked, but it keeps going up," says Dr. Ezzati. Two decades ago, no state had an obesity rate above 15%. Now, 22 have passed the 25% mark. (75) Neither are getting any smaller. A. For most Americans, life expectancy continues merrily to rise. B. And the poorest Americans have gained the most: blacks, for example, live more than twice as long now as they did a century ago. C. Even though smoking takes an average of 14. 5 years off women's lives, almost one in five American women age 18 and older smokes. D. The counties where life expectancy has fallen are nearly all in the South or Appalachia, where huge deep-fried portions are the norm and waistlines are among America's widest. E. But both sexes have quit in droves since the 1970s, so the death toll may fall in the future. F. The crucial question is whether this represents a blip or the start of a trend.

填空题From 1948 to 1961, the proportion of American blacks earning less than $ 3000 a year declined from 78 to 47 percent; at the same time, blacks earning more than $10.000 increased ______ from less than 1 to 17 percent. (Proportion)