Bob: Yes. Here you are, 20 dollars. Cashier: Thanks. _________. Next one, please.

A: I ordered a book from you last Saturday. It hasn"t arrived yet. B: Please tell me the serial number on your order sheet. ______.

Every manager needs a secretary that he can______to take care of something that may occur in his absence.

Secretary: Good morning. Fame and Fortune Talent Agency. Can I help you? Caller: Yes, Mr. Andrews, please. Secretary: I"m afraid he"s not in. Mr. Andrews is out to lunch right now. ______

Although no one is certain why migration occurs, there are several theories. One theory claims that prehistoric birds of the Northern Hemisphere were forced south during the Ice Age. As the glaciers melted, the birds came back to their homelands, spent the summer, and then went south again as the ice advanced in winter. In time, the migration became a habit in spite of the disappearance of glaciers. Another theory proposes that the ancestral home of all modern birds was the tropics. When the region became overpopulated, many species were crowded north. During the summer, there was plenty of food, but during the winter, scarcity forced them to return to the tropics. A more recent theory suggests a relationship between increasing daylight and the stimulation of certain glands(腺) in the birds" bodies that may prepare them for migration. One scientist has been able to cause midwinter migrations by exposing birds to artificial periods of daylight. He has concluded that changes occur in the bodies of birds due to seasonal changes in the length of daylight.

Operator: Reservations. May I help you? Customer: ______

Should English classes be ______at the elementary or primary school level in countries where it is not the native language?

By lip reading or watching the movements of the speaker"s lips, a deaf person can actually see ______ the person at the other telephone is saying.

Clerk: I"m sorry for being late this morning. My alarm clock didn"t ting. Manager: ______

Everyone pays the same tax rate, irrespective ______ whether they are married or single.

Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. Early in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in the heart of a town. This street was【B1】on both sides with many various businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries.【B2】, some shops offered【B3】. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe-repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops.【B4】in the 1950s, a change began to【B5】. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street【B6】too few parking places were available to shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces【B7】the city limits. Open space is what their car-driving customers needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls,【B8】as a collection of small new stores away from crowded city centres. Attracted by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from【B9】areas to outlying malls. And the growing popularity of shopping centres led in tam to the building of bigger and better stocked stores.【B10】the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the convenience of one stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.

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In previous times, when fresh meat was in short______, pigeons were kept by many households as a source of food.

James: Phil has decided to quit smoking. Kim: Again? ______.

Nancy: Hello, Ted. What"s wrong with your arm? Ted: I broke it when I was skating on the holiday. Nancy: Oh, no! ______ Ted: Much better, thanks.

______ shall we forget the day when we received the admission into Harvard University.

If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses" convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by SL Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "On, that"s God", came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he"s a doctor". If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it"ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman"s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you musm"t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. ten it"s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow oran unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark. Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don"t succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

David; If things go on like this, I"ll start preparing my resume again. Colleague: ______

Ann: Do you still have a headache, Bill? Bill: Yes. I do. And now I have a fever and cough constantly. Ann: ______