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The next time the men were taken up onto the deck, Kunta made a point of looking at the man behind him in line, the one who lay beside him to the left when they were below. He was a Serer tribesman much older than Kunta, and his body, front and back, was creased with whip cuts, some of them so deep and festering that Kunta, felt badly for having wished sometimes that he might strike the man in the darkness for moaning so steadily in his pain. Staring back at Kunta, the Serer's dark eyes were full of fury and defiance. A whip lashed out even as they stood looking at each other—this time at Kunta, spurring him to move ahead. Trying to roll away, Kunta was kicked heavily in his ribs. But somehow he and the gasping Wolof managed to stagger back up among the other men from their shelf who were shambling toward their dousing with bucked of seawater. A moment later, the stinging saltiness of it was burning in Kunta's wounds, and his screams joined those of others over the sound of the drum and the wheezing thing that had again begun marking time for the chained men to jump and dance for the toubob. Kunta and the Wolof were so weak from their new beating that twice they stumbled, but whip blows and kicks sent them hopping clumsily up and down in their chains. So great was his fury that Kunta was barely aware of the women singing "Toubob fa!" And when he had finally been chained back down in his place in the dark hold, his heart throbbed with a lust to murder toubob. Every few days the eight naked toubob would again come into the stinking darkness and scrape their tubs full of the excrement that had accumulated on the shelves where the chained men lay. Kunta would lie still with his eyes staring balefully in hatred, following the bobbing orange lights, listening to the toubob cursing and sometimes slipping and tailing into the slickness underfoot—so plentiful now, because of the increasing looseness of the men's bowels, that the filth had begun to drop off the edges of the shelves down into the aisle way. The last time they were on deck, Kunta had noticed a man limping on a badly infected leg. This time the man was kept up on deck when the rest were taken back below. A few days later, the women told the other prisoners in their singing that the man's leg had been cut off and that one of the women had been brought to tend him, but that the man had died that night and been thrown over the side. Starting then, when the toubob came to clean the shelves, they also dropped red-hot pieces of metal into pails of strong vinegar. The clouds of acrid steam left the hold smelling better, but soon it would again be overwhelmed by the choking stink. It was a smell that Kunta felt would never leave his lungs and skin. The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toubob were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. Words not understood were whispered from mouth to ear along the shelves until someone who knew more than one tongue would send back their meanings. In the process, all of the men along each shelf learned new words in tongues they had not spoken before. Sometimes men jerked upward, bumping their heads, in the double excitement of communicating with each other and the fact that it was being done without the toubob's knowledge. Muttering among themselves for hours, the men developed a deepening sense of intrigue and of brotherhood. Though they were of different villages and tribes, the feeling grew that they were not from different peoples or places. The living conditions for the Blacks in the salve ship were ______.

Over-cultivation and a long period of erosion has reduced the______of much of the country's farmland.

If a practical end must be assigned to a University course

Shall we request that the manager ______ our suggestion again?

While he was not dumber than an ox, he was not any smarter; so most of his classmates were lenient and helped him along.

Please do not be ______ by his offensive remarks since he is merely trying to attract attention.

The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to be transported and how expensive the freight______are.

The problem has ______ simply because you didn't follow my instruction.

New data has______that the damage to the ozone layer is not confined to the southern hemisphere.

Publication of this survey had originally been intended to coincide with the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, scheduled for September 29th—30th in Washington, D. C. Those meetings, and the big anti-globalization protests that had been planned to accompany them, were among the least significant casualties of the terrorist atrocities of September 11th. You might have thought that the anti-capitalist protesters, after contemplating those horrors and their aftermath, would be regretting more than just the loss of a venue for their marches. Many are, no doubt. But judging by the response of some of their leaders and many of the activists (if Internet chat rooms are any guide), grief is not always the prevailing mood. Some anti-globalists have found a kind of consolation even a cause of satisfaction, in these terrible events—that of having been as they see it, proved right. To its fiercest critics, globalization, the march of international capitalism, is a force for oppression, exploitation and injustice. The rage that drove the terrorists to commit their obscene crime was in part, it is argued, a response to that. At the very least, it is suggested, terrorism thrives on poverty and international capitalism, the protesters say, thrives on poverty too. These may be extreme positions, but the minority that holds them is not tiny, by any means. Far more important, the anti-globalists have lately drawn tacit support if nothing else, reluctance to condemn—from a broad range of public opinion. As a result, they have been, and are likely to remain, politically influential. At a time such as this, sorting through issues of political economy may seem very far removed from what matters. In one sense, it is. But when many in the West are contemplating their future with new foreboding, it is important to understand why the skeptics are wrong; why economic integration is a force for good; and why globalization, far from being the greatest cause of poverty, is its only feasible cure. Undeniably, popular support for that view is lacking. In the developed economies, support for further trade liberalization is uncertain; in some countries, voters are downright hostile to it. Starting a new round of global trade talks this year will be struggle, and seeing it through to a useful conclusion will be. The institutions that in most people's eyes represent the global economy—the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization are reviled far more widely than they are admired; the best they can expect from opinion at large is grudging acceptance. Governments, meanwhile, are accused of bowing down to business: globalization leaves them no choice. Private capital moves across the planet unchecked. Wherever it goes, it bleeds democracy of content and puts "profits before people". In your opinion, what may be the main topic of this passage?

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Peter felt very guilty for not being able to reunite with his family on Christmas Eve, so he decided to ______. He wanted to work till midnight.

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The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious【C1】______the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the surface of the Earth. A liquid can be kept in an open container and【C2】______it to the level of a free surface. A gas forms no free surface but【C3】______to diffuse throughout the space available; it must【C4】______be kept in a closed container, as【C5】______a planet's atmosphere. The distinction was a prominent feature of early theories【C6】______the phases of matter. In the nineteenth century, for example, one theory maintained that a liquid could be ""dissolved"" in a vapor without losing its identity, and another theory held that the two phases are【C7】______different kinds of molecules(分子). The theories now prevailing【C8】______a quite different approach by emphasizing what liquids and gases have in common. They are both forms of matter that have no permanent structure, and they both flow easily. They are fluids. The【C9】______similarity of liquids and gases becomes clearly apparent when the temperature and pressure are raised somewhat.【C10】______a closed container partially filled with a liquid is heated. The liquid expands, or【C11】______, becomes less dense; some of it evaporates.【C12】______, the vapor above the liquid surface becomes denser as the evaporated molecules are added to it. The combination of temperature and pressure【C13】______the densities become equal is【C14】______the critical point. Above the critical point the liquid and the gas can no longer be【C15】______; there is a single, undifferentiated fluid phase of uniform density."

The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed______to him, but one day he discovered their difference.

______ happens in the world makes us happy and sad by turns.

Her spirits ______ at the thought of all the work she had to do that morning.

A year has______and there is no sign of the situation getting any better.

He was ______ when he heard the unexpected news