There once was a master who came to India, perhaps from Persia. When he got there, he saw a lot of【C1】______. In India they have plenty of fruit to sell, but much of it is expensive. So he saw a big basket of some very red, long fruit, the cheapest in the shop. He bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started【C2】______it. But after he ate some of it, his eyes and mouth【C3】______and burned, and his face became red. He coughed and choked, jumping up and down. But he still continued to eat the fruit! Some people who were【C4】______him said, " Those are hot peppers! People use them as a flavor, but only a little bit to put into food for【C5】______. You can"t just eat them【C6】______that; they"re not fruit!" But the stupid master said, "No, I can"t stop! I【C7】______money for them, and now I"ll eat them. It"s my money!" And you think that master was stupid, right?【C8】______, we sometimes do a lot of things like that. We invest money, time or effort in a relationship, business or job. Even though bitter experience tells us it won"t work, we still continue just【C9】______we"ve invested money, time, effort and love into it. Just like the man who ate the peppers and【C10】______so much but couldn"t stop because he didn"t want to waste the money he"d paid.

Passer-by: ______? Local resident: Yes, there is one near the end of the street. It"s behind the church.

In computing, passwords are commonly used to limit access to official users. Yet the widespread use of passwords has serious drawbacks. Office workers now have to remember an average of twelve system passwords. In theory they should use different passwords for each site, but in reality these would be impossible to remember, so many people use the same password for all. An additional problem is that the majority use simple words such as "hello, " or names of family members, instead of more secure combinations of numbers and letters, such as 6ANV76Y. This permits computer hackers to download dictionaries and quickly find the word that allows them access. When system users forget their passwords there is extra expense in supplying new ones, while if people are forced to change passwords frequently they often write them down, making systems even less secure. Therefore, it is clear that the idea of passwords, which have been used as security devices for thousands of years, may need rethinking. One possible alternative has been developed by the American firm Real User, and is called "passfaces. " In order to access the system a worker has to select a series of photographs of faces from a randomly(随机地)generated sequence. If the pictures are selected in the correct order, access is granted. This concept depends on the human ability to recognize and remember a huge number of different faces, and the advantage is that such a sequence cannot be told to anyone or written down, so is more secure. It is claimed that the picture sequence, which used photographs of university students, is easier to remember than passwords, and it has now been adopted for the United States Senate.

It is wise to remember that you do not have to buy anything from any salesperson. You ought to buy only those things you really need or want and can 【B1】. Try not to let your personal feelings about the salesperson 【B2】 you to make a purchase. Remember that you are entitled to ask a salesperson any question you wish 【B3】 the product or service, and you are entitled to get a clear, complete 【B4】 . You can tell the salesperson you want to think about the matter for a few days, 【B5】 that you want to talk to other people who have purchased the product or service. You can walk 【B6】 from a salesperson without a polite end to the conversation. If a salesperson telephones you, you do not have to listen to the person’s entire“lecture”or respond to it in a friendly way. You can simply interrupt the person and state that you are not interested in the product or service. You can simply 【B7】 the telephone without saying anything. There are, of course many salespeople who are genuinely interested in assisting you and in 【B8】 you reasonable products and prices. If you are in 【B9】 about the wisdom of a particular purchase, you might want to 【B10】 another person who has had experience with the product or the service that interests you. If you receive unwanted goods in the mail, you are not obligated to pay for it.

Certainly, the most popular method of traveling used by Americans is the privately-owned automobile. The vast majority of Americans have a car, and many families have two.【B1】during your visit to the United States, you may decide to rent a car to travel outside the city or to travel to other parts of the country. Car rental companies are【B2】in the telephone book and are located in most cities and towns.【B3】, there are usually rental cars at airports and train and bus stations. As is true everywhere in the world, you can rent a car【B4】the day, week, or month. Some companies【B5】have special weekend rates that you may find especially interesting if you have only a limited【B6】of time to travel around the area you are visiting. Since each company has its own rules and rates, it is a good idea to【B7】prices among companies to get the best rates to suit your purposes. For example, most car rental costs【B8】how long you plan to keep the car and how far you travel. However, some companies may include gasoline in their rates, but【B9】do not. Some companies require that you【B10】the car to its starting point; others will permit you to leave the car in another city.

Banking and financial systems filled with______and corruption hinder the region"s Success.

Speaker A: Don"t you smoke? Speaker B:______

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Radios today seldom need ______ or the attention of a technician.

A: You are a college student. Tell me what you would like to do? B:______.

American no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift. Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing, the Degradation of language and Music and why we should like, care, John Me Whorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960 scounter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English. But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music. While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page. Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, performative gene is the only form that could claim real liveliness, in both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft. Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable. But it is less clear, to take the question of his subtitle, why we should, like care. As a linguist, he acknowledges that all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressive—there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex ideas. He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight because we do not talk proper. Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers. Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms—he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful. We now take our English "on paper plates instead of china". A shame, perhaps, but probably an inevitable one.

As teachers we should concern ourselves with what is said, not what we think______.

Mary is as vain as peacock and always wants to be the ______ of attention.

Many people complain of the rapid ______ of modern life.

Some companies have introduced ______ working time with less emphasis on pressure and more on efficiency.

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While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states, at least in getting people off welfare. It"s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent—twice the national average. For advocates (代言人) for the poor, that"s an indication much more needs to be done. "More people are getting jobs, but it"s not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. A center analysis of U.S. Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed households were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin (毒素) that was poisoning the family," says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It"s beginning to rebuild the work ethic (道德观), which is much more important." Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked", then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.

Speaker A: Hi. My name is Mark. I"m from Houston, Texas. Speaker B: I"m Bill. Glad to meet you. What year are you? Speaker A: ______.

As people continue to grow and age, our body systems continue to change. At a certain point in your life your body systems will begin to weaken. Your joints may become stiff. It may become more difficult for you to see and bear. The slow change of aging causes our bodies to lose some of their ability to bounce back from disease and injury. In order to live longer, we have always tried to slow or stop this process that leads us toward the end of our lives. Many factors contribute to your health. A well-balanced diet plays an important role. The amount and type of exercise you get is another factor. Your living environment and the amount of stress you are under is yet another. But scientists studying senescence (衰老) want to know: Why do people grow old? They hope that by examining the aging process on a cellular level medical science may be able to extend the length of life.

Patient: I"d like to make an appointment with Dr. Brooks. Nurse: ______