To paraphrase 18th century statesman Edmund Burke, all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing. One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research. Hearing allegations of cruelly to animals in research settings, many are perplexed that anyone would deliberately harm an animal. For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, "Then I would have to say yes". Asked what will happen when epidemics return, she said, "Don"t worry, scientists will find some way of using computers". Such well-meaning people just don"s understand. Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way in human terms, not in the language of molecular biology. We need to make clear the connection between animal research and a grandmother"s hip replacement, a father"s bypass operation a baby"s vaccinations, and even a pet"s shots. To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst. Much can be done. Scientists could "adopt" middle school classes and present their own research. They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor, lest animal rights misinformation go unchallenged and ac quire a deceptive appearance of truth. Research institutions could be opened to tours, to show that laboratory animals receive humane care Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment. If good people do nothing there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

Man: What"s the noise upstairs? Woman: It seems they"re wrestling. Man: ______

Student A: Well it is time for boarding. Student B: _______

Pressed by competition and its own success, the popular search engine Google has created an automated way to search for new employees who are fully appropriate as well as high-achieving. In a project, the 100, 000 people who fill in online job applications for Google each month will be asked to complete a complicated questionnaire(问卷)exploring their attitudes, behaviour, personality and backgrounds going back to their school days. The questions range from whether applicants have ever set a world record, to whether their workspace is messy or tidy or what magazines they read. Answers are studied by Google"s mathematicians to calculate a score meant to predict how well a person will fit into the organization"s diversified and competitive culture. Psychometric tests(心理测试)are already used by more traditional companies to select workers, but they are unheard of in a company like Google, which is built on a belief in individual talent. The online questionnaire is based on the answers to 300 questions sent out last summer to every employee at the head office in California"s Silicon Valley. Some questions were factual: What programming languages are you familiar with? What Internet mailing lists are you on? Other questions, however, tried to establish personality and behavioural characteristics: have you ever tutored another person? "We wanted to cast a very wide net, " said Laszlo Bock, Google"s Vice-President for People Operations. " It is not unusual to walk into our office and bump into dogs. Maybe people who own dogs have some personality feature that is useful. "

A: could you go to the store nearby right away? I need a few things for painting. B: ______

A: I got another D for my coursework. The teacher must hate me. B: Mr. Pierre is really nice. ______.

But let no one think that pleasure is immoral. Pleasure in itself is a great good, all pleasure, but its consequences may be such【B1】the sensible person eschews certain varieties of【B2】. Nor need pleasure be gross and sensual. They are wise in their generation【B3】have discovered that intellectual pleasure is the most satisfying and the most enduring. It is well to【B4】the habit of reading. There are【B5】sports in which you can engage to your own satisfaction after you have passed the prime of life; there are no games except patience, chess problems and crossword puzzles that you can play without someone to play them with you. Reading suffers【B6】no such disadvantages; there is no occupation—except perhaps needle-work, but that leaves the restless spirit【B7】liberty—which you can more easily【B8】up at any moment, for any period, and more easily put【B9】when other calls press upon you; there is no other amusement that can be obtained in these happy days of public liberties and cheap editions at so small a【B10】. To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Man: Excuse me, Miss. Do you know where I can find file holders? Saleswoman: You see the kitchenware there? _____.

I don"t think Mr. Matson will come here again today. Please give the ticket to ______ comes here first.

Receptionist: Front desk. Can I help you? Hotel guest: This is Mr. Burton in 120______? Receptionist: Of course. What time?

The fear of Americanization of the planet is more ideological paranoia(多疑) than reality. There is no doubt that, with globalization, English has become the general language of our time, as was Latin in the Middle Ages. And it will continue its ascent, since it is an indispensable instrument for international transactions and communication. But does this mean that English necessarily develops at the expense of the other great languages? Absolutely not. In fact, the opposite is true. The vanishing of borders and an increasingly interdependent world have created incentives for new generations to learn and assimilate other cultures, not merely as a hobby, but also out of necessity, because the ability to speak several languages and navigate comfortably in different cultures has become crucial for professional success. Consider the case of Spanish. Half a century ago, Spanish speakers were an inward-looking community; we projected ourselves in only very limited ways beyond our traditional linguistic confines. Today, Spanish is dynamic and thriving, gaining beachheads or even vast landholdings on all five continents. That there are between 25 and 30 million Spanish speakers in the United States today explains why the two recent U.S. presidential candidates—the Texas governor George W. Bush and the vice-president Al Gore—campaigned not only in English, but also in Spanish. How many millions of young men and women around the globe have responded to the challenges of globalization by learning Japanese, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian or French? Fortunately, this tendency will only increase in the coming years. That is why the best defence of our own cultures and languages is to promote them vigorously throughout this new world, not to persist in the naive pretense of vaccinating them against the menace of English. Those who propose such remedies speak much about culture, but they tend to be ignorant people who mask their true vocation: nationalism. And if there is anything at odds with the universalist propensities of culture, it is the exclusionary vision that nationalist perspectives try to impose on cultural life. The most admirable lesson that cultures teach us is that they need not be protected by bureaucrats or commissars, or confined behind iron bars, or isolated by customs services, in order to remain alive and exuberant; to the contrary, such efforts would only wither or even trivialize culture. Cultures must live freely, constantly jousting with different cultures. This renovates and renews them, allowing them to evolve and adapt to the continuous flow of life. In antiquity, Latin did not kill Greek; to the contrary, the artistic originality and intellectual depth of Hellenic culture permeated Roman civilization and, through it, the poems of Homer and the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle reached the entire world. Globalization will not make local cultures disappear; in a framework of worldwide openness, all that is valuable and worthy of survival in local cultures will find fertile ground in which to bloom.

Stewardess: Please put your seat up. We"ll be serving dinner shortly. Passenger: I"d like to, but there seems to be something wrong with it. ______

When we arrived at the airport, we were told our flight ______.

The Xinhua bookstore chain, China"s largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for interest among foreign venture capital investors. "We are actively promoting the process of shareholding reform. Every day, we receive lots of offers from domestic and foreign investors interested in getting involved and may pick one or two to do so in the next two to three months," Zhang Yashan, the leading cadre of the head store"s office said. According to a company insider who requested anonymity, several securities firms are overseeing Xinhua bookstore"s reform and the company could list on the domestic stock market once reforms are repotted to the government in May and then completed. The source would not reveal the specific names of the firms involved or details of the reform. "We will stipulate that we must remain the majority shareholder, but we will welcome all kinds of investment, including foreign capital, to establish a shareholding enterprise. We hope the No. 2 shareholder will be a foreign enterprise," the source said. In keeping with its World Trade Organization entry promises, China must allow foreign investment in domestic publication retailers by the end of this year.

With regarding to this model of color TV sets, the home-made ones are by no means those made in Japan.

After criminals were caught, they were accused and put on ______.

______pollution control measures tend to be money consuming, many industries hesitate to adopt them.

Interviewer: Let me see if I understood you. You mean that you can work extra hours if needed, right? Interviewee: ______

My parents" house had an attic, the darkest and strangest part of the building, reachable only by placing a stepladder beneath the trapdoor, and filled with unidentifiable articles too important to be thrown out with the trash but no longer suitable to have at hand. This mysterious space was the memory of the place. After many years all the things deposited in it became, one by one, lost to consciousness. But they were still there, we knew, safely and comfortably stored in the tissues of the house. These days most of us live in smaller, more modem houses or in apartments, and attics have vanished. Even the deep closets in which we used to pile things up for temporary forgetting are rarely designed into new homes. Everything now is out in the open, openly acknowledged and displayed, and whenever we grow tired of a memory, an old chair, a trunkful of old letters, they are cast into the dump for burning. This has seemed a healthier way to live, except maybe for the smoke everything out to be looked at, nothing strange hidden under the roof, nothing forgotten because of no place left in impenetrable darkness to forget. Openness is the new lifestyle, no undisclosed belongings, no private secrets. Candor is the role in architecture. The house is a machine for living, and what kind of machine would hide away its worn-out, deserted parts? But it is in our nature as human beings to clutter, and we long for places set aside, reserved for storage. We tend to accumulate and outgrow possessions at the same time, and it is an endlessly discomforting mental task to keep sorting out the ones to get rid of. We might, we think, remember them later and find a use for then, and if they are gone for good, off to the damp, this is a source of nervousness. I think it may be one of the reasons we drum our fingers so much these days. We might take a lesson here from what has been learned about our brains in this century. We thought we discovered, first off, the attic, although its existence has been mentioned from time to time by all the people we used to call great writers. What we really found was the trapdoor and a stepladder, and off we clambered, shining flashlights into the comers, vacuuming the dust out of bureau drawers, puzzling over the names of objects, tossing them down to the floor below, and finally paying around fifty dollars an hour to have them cast away for burning.

The beat generation mainly referred to the youth who were born and brought up around the Second World War. They showed their disdain(蔑视，轻视) for almost everything traditional, such as government authority, respect for parents, one"s duty, moral standards, and traditional customs. They developed a kind of absolute individualism and liberty. They preferred long hair, mini dresses or close fitting clothes to show off the figure. They advocated freedom of sex and cohabitation(同居). Their influence could be seen from the fact that about one third of the American couples living together were not married by law. And the divorce rate was very high. The endless US wars abroad and sharp class straggle at home caused many American youths to develop a kind of cynicism. They doubted the existing social system, possibility of harmonious(和谐的) human relations, and the long honored standard for correct behavior. They felt society overlooked their needs. Therefore, they refused to do any duty that was required of them by society. They declared "Don"t believe anyone over thirty". All this came from the sick society. It"s wrong to imagine they all fought against capitalism in support of revolutionary things. Some of their ideas were even more decadent(颓废的) and impractical. It was an abnormal phenomenon in an abnormal society.