Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor contributed most of his vast fortune in a trust as a fund from which annual prizes could be awarded to individuals and organizations who had achieved the greatest benefit to humanity in a particular year. Originally, there were six classifications for outstanding contributions designated in Nobel"s will including chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, and international peace. The prizes are administrated by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm. In 1969, a prize for economics endowed by the Central Bank of Sweden was added. Candidates for the prizes must be nominated in writing by qualified authority in the field of competition. Recipients are selected by their respective institutions. The prizes are usually presented in Stockholm on December 10, with the King of Sweden officiating, an appropriate tribute to Alfred Nobel on the anniversary of his death. Each one includes a gold medal, a diploma, and a cash award of about a million dollars.

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Receiver: Would you like to leave a message? I"ll let Mr. Cohen know as soon as he comes back. Caller: ______.

Guest: Have you a single room for tonight and tomorrow night with a telephone and shower? Clerk: We haven"t any rooms with a shower free just now, but there"s a bathroom available on each floor. Guest: ______.

Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking(搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming dark ness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper. "Thank you dearie—I"m just going to Brockbourne". Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn"t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, some thing odd, something..., dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous? It was absurd. Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs...Thick black hairs? Hairy arms? Andrea"s blood froze. This wasn"t a woman. It was a man. At first, she didn"t know what to do. Then suddenly, an idea came into her racing, terrified brain. Swinging the wheel suddenly, she threw the car into a skid(刹车), and brought it to a halt. "My Cod!" she shouted, "A child! Did you see the child? I think I hit her!" The "old lady" was clearly shaken by the sudden skid, "I didn"t see anything dearie", she said. "I don"t think you hit anything". "I"m sure it was a child!" insisted Andrea. "Could you just get out and have a look? Just see if there"s anything on the road?" She held her breath. Would her plan work? It did. The passenger slowly climbed out to investigate. As soon as she was out of the vehicle, Andrea gunned the engine and accelerated madly away, and soon she had put a good three miles between herself and the awful hitchhiker. It was only then that she thought about the bag lying on the floor in front of her. Maybe the bag would provide some information about the real identity about the man. Pulling into the side of the road, Andrea opened the heavy bag curiously. It contained only one item—a small hand axe, with a razor-sharp blade. The axe and the inside of the bag were covered with the dark red stains of dried blood. Andrea began to scream.

Lily: Do you mind if I read the text aloud here? Jack:______. Lily: Thank you very much.

James: Hi, there, Mike. Fancy meeting you here. It"s... Allen: ______ James: Oh, I"m terribly sorry.

When we conduct foreign trade, the importance of understanding the language of a country cannot be underestimated. The successful marketer must achieve export requires a thorough understanding of the language as well as the ability to speak it. Those who deal with advertising should be concerned less with obvious differences between languages and more with the exact meanings expressed. A dictionary translation is not the same as an idiomatic interpretation, and seldom will the dictionary translation meet the needs. A national producer of soft drinks had the company"s brand name impressed in Chinese characters which were phonetically(按照发音地) accurate. It was discovered later, however, that the translation"s literal meaning was "female horse fattened with wax", hardly the image the company sought to describe. So carelessly translated advertising statements not only lose their intended meaning but can suggest something very different including something offensive or ridiculous. Sometimes, what was translated was not an image the companies had in mind for their products. Many people believe that to fully appreciate the true meaning of a language it is necessary to live with the language for years. Whether or not this is the case, foreign marketers should never take it for granted that they are affectively communicating in another language.

If he had listened to me, he ______ earlier.

He was not as active as I had ______him to be.

All the firemen in the city were ______ to fight against the big fire.

Nurse: Mr. White, how about Friday at 9:30? Patient; Would you have anything in the afternoon? Nurse: Hmm ..., we do have an opening at 4:00. ______

Chocolate manufacturers blend many types of beans to yield ______ and color desired in the final product.

Hotel Guest： Could I order something from the room service menu, please? Clerk： Certainly. ______?Hotel Guest: A club sandwich and a pot of coffee, please. Clerk： Certainly.

It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases【B1】the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be【B2】in our past experiences, which are brought into the present【B3】memory. Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep【B4】available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" thing like arithmetic or historical facts, but also any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is【B5】when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six year old child learns to swing a baseball bat. Memory【B6】not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer【B7】that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100 000 "words" ready for【B8】use. An average American teenager probably recognizes the meanings of about 100 000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total【B9】of information which the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of facts and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem solving intelligence of human beings. A large part of a person"s memory is in terms of words and【B10】of words.

German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren"t as busy as people believe they are. "Bees are not particularly【B1】. Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend【B2】80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest【B3】they rest their wings", said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free University in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to【B4】for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are【B5】learners and able to recognize various smells. Menzel said bees" learning, like【B6】of many animals, was based on a reward system. "If a bee is re warded once for something, it remembers it for a week. But if it is rewarded three times, it will remember it for its【B7】lifetime", said Menzel. He was awarded a【B8】by the German Zoological Society. The memory capacity of bees means they can【B9】among more than 50 different smells to find the one they want. "What is interesting is that what smells good to a bee, is also a【B10】smell for humans", said Menzel.

Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero? Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people. A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a story of adventure to tell and community who will listen. But a hero goes beyond mere fame. Heroes serve powers or principles larger than themselves. Like high-voltage transformers, heroes take the energy of higher powers and step it down so that it can be used by ordinary people. The hero lives a life worthy of imitation. Those who imitate a genuine hero experience life with new depth, enthusiasm, and meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom do they serve? What are they willing to live and die for? If the answer or evidence suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be famous persons but not heroes. Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant? Heroes are catalysts(催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the mountaintop. They have the skill and the charm to move the masses. They create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., we might still have segregated(隔离的) buses, restaurants, and parks: It may be possible for large-scale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless.

Internet shopping is a new way of shopping. Nowadays, you can shop for just about anything from your armchair. All you need is a computer which is linked to the Internet. Shopping on the Internet is becoming increasingly popular. In the United States. people spent over U.S. $2.5 billion on Internet shopping in 1998. This figure is expected to reach USS11 billion by the year 2004. People can shop for a variety of products on the Internet. Physical products include items such as books, CDs, clothes and foods. These types of products are the most common purchases through the Internet. You can also buy information products such as on-line news or magazine stories, or you can download computer software through the Internet. Services such as booking airline tickets, reserving hotels or renting cars are also available on the Internet. You can also go shopping off the Internet for entertainment services and take part in on-line games. Internet shopping offers a number of benefits for the shopper. The most important advantage is convenience. You can shop when you like as the on-line shops are open 24 hours a day and you don"t have to queue with other shoppers at the checkout counters. Secondly, it is easy to find what you are looking for on the Internet. Even out-of-print books may be ordered on line. Finally, it is often cheaper to buy goods through the Internet, and you can tell the shop exactly what you want. The main disadvantage of Internet shopping is that you cannot actually see the products you are buying or check their quality. Also, many people enjoy shopping in the city and miss the opportunity to talk to friends. Some people are worded about paying for goods using credit cards, so Internet companies are now finding ways to make on-line payment safe. Internet shopping is sure to become more and more popular in the years ahead. It promises to change the way we buy all kinds of things—from tonight"s dinner to a new car.

Speaker A: I"m sorry. That brand of camera you want is not available now. Speaker B: ______

I have an infatuation(迷恋) with autumn. The colors of the season, and the smells, have always thrilled me. I have always found joy in this time of year. The last few autumns of my life, however, I recollect in shades of gray rather than cheerful oranges and yellows. When I became a single mother, every aspect of life took on new meaning. Since I was used to carrying out most of the parental duties without much help during my marriage, I truly did not foresee how different parenting would become after the marriage was over. But suddenly I realized I was a statistic. The daily routine was not changed so much; it was the angle at which I had begun to look at life. I believed my ex-husband"s lawyer was tracking every grade the children made, and I was under a microscope in this new town where the Children and I moved our "broken home". I feared having to eventually establish my family with each new teacher and each new term as a single-parent family. I just wanted to be us again, without the stigma(特征) of the label that put on us. During those few gray years, I would reassure myself that soon things would be better, and that I would someday be able to feel whole again. There is no mathematical equation of adults proportioned to children to equal a stable, loving family. Every family has its strengths. In fact, studies show that in families who read together, eat together and communicate openly, children are likely to succeed academically, as well as socially and emotionally. I am sure these habits are just as effective when practiced in single-parent families. I realize now that I am not a statistic. We are an active, vital family in this charming community, where we are not marked by any stigma of any statistics of any focus groups. We are given opportunity, all of us. We are surrounded by beauty and immersed in possibility. There is joy to be found here, in what we see around us and in creating our own rendition of how we want to be seen. There is strength and grace in our own willingness to break free from conformity without falling behind the barriers of self-imposed limitations or preconceived notions of where we should fit in this world according to research.