When people are struck by lightning

Don't call him just a college professor

Large

Please don't ______ too much on the painful memories. Everything will be all right.

Between 1833 and 1837

Since the negotiation with the management has come to a deadlock

At all ages and at all stages of life

If you are looking for a quality education at a reasonable price, consider State University as the place to ______.

语言学家王力认为西方语言是法治的语言，汉语则是人治的语言；这话用来描述中西语言在句法形式上的差别是非常贴切的。

Manufacturing is China's most important economic activity, ______ over 30 percent of the workforce.

The tenant must be prepared to decorate the house ______ the terms of the contract.

Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one's side, or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World War Ⅱ and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that "Gift" means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm's length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch, which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we make few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those natives—usually the richer—who speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nation's diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For many years, America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and linguistic ignorance. After all, America was the most powerful country of the free world, the distributor of needed funds and goods. But all that is past. American dollars no longer buy all good things, and we are slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing. A 1979 Harris poll reported that 55 percent of Americans want this country to play a more significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important decisions of the next century, even though it may not always be the upper hand. It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Middle Easterners would most probably ______.

He is a very honest official and never ______ any gifts from the people who sought his help.

If you had ______ your test paper carefully before handing it in, you would have made fewer mistakes.

The crowd went ______ as soon as the singer stepped onto the stage.

All the investigations ______ before the deadline, the staff decided to have a party as a celebration.

He plays tennis to the______of all other sports.

Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable us to get along with one another and to determine where we "fit" in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mentally attempt to place people in terms of their statuses. For example, we must judge whether the person in the library is a reader or a librarian, whether the telephone caller is a friend or a salesman, whether the unfamiliar person on our property is thief or a meter reader, and so on. The statuses we assume often vary with the people we encounter, and change throughout life. Most of us can, at very high speed, assume the statuses that various situations require. Much of social interaction consists of identifying and selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing other people to assume their statuses in relation to us. This means that we fit our actions to those of other people based on a constant mental process of appraisal and interpretation. Although some of us find the task more difficult than others, most of us perform it rather effortlessly. A status has been compared to ready-made clothes. Within certain limits, the buyer can choose style and fabric. But em>an American is not free to choose the costume of a Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince./em> We must choose from among the clothing presented by our society. Furthermore, our choice is limited to a size that will fit, as well as by our pocketbook. Having made a choice within these limits we can have certain alterations made, but apart from minor adjustments, we tend to be limited to what the stores have on their racks. Statuses too come ready made, and the range of choice among them is limited. In the first paragraph, the writer tells us that statuses can help us ______.

The government can't expect the taxpayer to ______ this company out indefinitely.

The little girl is ignorant______the basic rules of English grammar.