It was two years ago today that the hunting ban came into force, supposedly ending centuries of tradition. However, the law has been an unmitigated failure—not that either side is shouting about it. It was a nightmare vision that struck fear and loathing into the hearts of millions. When the hunting ban became law, it was said, 16,000 people would lose their jobs, thousands of hounds would be put down, rotting carcasses would litter the countryside, hedgerows would disappear, riders would face on-the-spot fines, law-abiding people from doctors to barristers would be dragged from their horses and carted off to prison, while dog owners would be prosecuted if their mutt caught a rabbit. These were just some of the claims as desperate countryside campaigners battled to save their sport in the lead—up to the hunting ban, which Labour rammed into law using the Parliament Act on November 18, 2004. For many, the fears were real. Others exaggerated as they fought an increasingly aggressive anti-hunting lobby which had rejected acres of independent evidence affirming that hunting is the most humane way of killing foxes. In the battle to "fight prejudice, fight the ban", every emotive argument was deployed. For its part, the anti-hunting brigade extravagantly claimed that the ban would put an end to the rich parading in red jackets. A senior Labour MP, Peter Bradley, admitted in this newspaper that it was, as many suspected, about "class war". He lost his seat shortly afterwards. But people in red coats did not disappear. In fact, none of the forecasts came true. What did happen was something nobody had predicted: the spectacular revival and growth of hunting with hounds. In short, the hunting ban has been a failure. Today, on the second anniversary of the ban's coming into force on February 18, 2005, new figures show that participation in the sport has never been higher. It is so cheerful that two new packs have been formed, something that has not happened for centuries. They include the seductively named Private Pack, set up by the financier Roddy Fleming in Gloucestershire. It operates on an invitation-only basis, a sort of hunting private members' club. This can only mean one thing: like it or not, hunting is cool. Young people are taking it up, enticed by the element of rebellion and the mystique of what actually happens as hunts attempt to keep within the law.

Shopping malls have some advantage in suffering from shorter periods of________business.

There is a closer relationship between morals and architecture and interior decoration【C1】______ we suspect. Huxley has pointed out that Western ladies did not take frequent baths【C2】______ they were afraid to see their own naked bodies, and this moral concept delayed the【C3】______ of the modern white-enameled bathtub for centuries. One can understand Why in the design of old Chinese furniture there was so little consideration for human【C4】______ only when we realize the Confucian atmosphere in which people moved about. Chinese redwood furniture was designed for people to sit upright in, because that was the only posture approved by society. Even Chinese emperors had to sit on a(n)【C5】______ on which I would not think of remaining for more than five minutes, and for that matter the English kings were just as badly off. Cleopatra went about【C6】______ on a couch carried by servants, because apparently she had never heard of Confucius. If Confucius should have seen her doing that, he would certainly have struck her shins with a stick, as he did【C7】______ one of his old disciples, Yuan Jiang, when the latter was found sitting in an incorrect posture. In the Confucian society in which we lived, gentlemen and ladies had to【C8】______ themselves perfectly erect, at least on formal【C9】______ , and any sign of putting one's leg up would be at once considered a sign of vulgarity and lack of【C10】______ .

Many people feel their chances of finding the job and salary they want are bleak .

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Color is very important to most animals for it helps them to get along in the world. Color【C1】______ to make an animal difficult for its enemies to【C2】______ Many animals match their surroundings so well that as long as they do not move no one is【C3】______ to see them. You probably have often "jumped" a rabbit. If you【C4】______ , you know how the rabbit sits perfectly still until you are just a few feet away. You【C5】______ see the rabbit till it runs for its【C6】______ matches very closely the place where it is sitting. Many times you may have walked past a rabbit【C7】______ didn't run and you never knew it was there at all. One of the most usual color schemes that helps animals to keep from being seen, is a dark back and light underpants, if an animal is the same color all 【C8】______ , there is always a dark shadow along the animal's belly (腹部).【C9】______ an enemy couldn't see the animal he could see this dark shadow. The shadow makes the animal stand out to view. But if the belly is【C10】______ than the rest of the animal, the shadow will not be noticed.

Sometimes the messages are conveyed through deliberate "conscious gestures" , and other times, our bodies talk without our even knowing it.

A. They're not expensive.B. What are these dolls made ofC. Can you show me some othersCustomer:【D1】______ ?Salesclerk: They are made of argil. Customer: They are so lovely. Salesclerk: Yes, you are right.Customer:【D2】______ ?Salesclerk: Yes, please come this way. How about these? Customer: They are lovely, too. I don't know which to buy now.Salesclerk: You can take them all.【D3】______ .Customer: Are you sure? Salesclerk: Yes, of course.

One of the Children's Welfare Institute has spent 390, 000 yuan($ 61, 464)to buy a luxury Mercedes. Major officials at the Hefei bureau of civil affairs told media that the purchase of the car was approved by authorities and confirms to procedures and regulations. The comments attracted widespread criticism from the public. Comment 1 It's the government's responsibility to financially support non-profit social welfare institutions such as children's welfare institutes, and the public will have no objection to money being spent on children. Comment 2 But it's inappropriate for these institutions to purchase a luxury car, which has little to do with children's welfare. It's a waste of public finances even if it does satisfy a so-called legal procedure. Comment 3 In many areas of the country there are still many things that need improvement in children's welfare. Many children in need can barely get daily necessities due to financial difficulties in local areas. The luxury car scandal has exposed imbalance in children's welfare, and much more supervision is needed in this field. Comment 4 They are not mixable. Affordable housing and food should be the focus. Comment 5 Since authority has approved their action, it's none of our business. It doesn't matter how much they spent their money on cars, because I never donate any of my penny for them. I would rather give money to the children in needed directly. Comment 6 The charity institute should be closed. You never know where the money you donate has gone.

A. byB. say C.toPhrases:A. but 【T1】______doing small things in a great wayB. It is due【T2】______his focus on small thingsC. That is to 【T3】______ Throughout the ages, there is no one but wishes to get somewhere. However, only a few can climb to the top and be admired by the world. What may surprise us is that most of the successful people do not make successes by doing great things,【T4】______. Just as the saying goes, "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. 【T5】______, one does not necessarily become a great man, but he can still be successful and win respect from others by doing common jobs in a perfect way. Actually, history abounds with examples to prove this saying. The late CEO of the Apple Corporation, Steve Jobs, was a case of point. He was so addicted to details that he could not stop pushing his staff to pursue perfection in design and production. 【T6】______that Apple makes great success in the mobile field, producing products that are not only innovative, but also superior.

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Arriving anywhere with these possessions, he might just as easily put up for a month or a year as for a single day.

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Courageous people think quickly and act without hesitation .

Our bodies are wonderfully skillful at maintaining balance. When the temperature jumps, we sweat to cool down. When our blood pressure falls, our hearts pound to compensate. As it turns out, though, our natural state is not a steady one. Researchers are finding that everything from blood pressure to brain function varies rhythmically with the cycles of sun, moon and seasons. And their insights are yielding new strategies for keeping away such common killers as heart disease and cancer. Only one doctor in 20 has a good knowledge of the growing field of "chronotherapeutics"(历史治疗术), the strategic use of time(chronos)in medicine. But according to a new American Medical Association poll, three out of four are eager to change that. "The field is exploding," says Michael Smolensky, "Doctors used to look at us like ' What spaceship did you guys get off?' Now they're thirsty to know more. " In medical school, most doctors learn that people with chronic conditions should take their medicine at steady rates. "It's a terrible way to treat disease," says Dr. Richard Martin. For example, asthmatics(气喘患者)are most likely to suffer during the night. Yet most patients strive to keep a constant level of medicine in their blood day and night, whether by breathing in on an inhaler(吸入器)four times a day or taking a pill each morning and evening. In recent studies, researchers have found that a large mid-afternoon dose of a bronchodilator(支气管扩张剂)can be as safe as several small doses, and better for preventing nighttime attacks. If the night belongs to asthma, the dawn belongs to high blood pressure and heart disease. Heart attacks are twice as common at 9 a. m. as at 11 p. m. Part of the reason is that our blood pressure falls predictably at night, then peaks as we start to work for the day. "Doctors know that", says Dr. Henry Black of Chicago's Medical Center, "but until now, we haven't been able to do anything about it. " Most blood-pressure drugs provide 18 to 20 hours of relief. But because they're taken in the morning, they're least effective when most needed. "You take your pill at 7 and it's working by 9," says Dr. William White of the University of Connecticut Health Center, "but by that time you've gone through the worst four hours of the day with no protection. " Bedtime dosing would prevent that lapse, but it would also push blood pressure to dangerously low levels during the night.

On the morning of September 11th, I boarded the train from Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan just as usual and went to the Body Positive office in the South Street Seaport of Lower Manhattan. While I was leaving the subway at 8:53 am, a man ran down the street screaming, "Someone just bombed the World Trade Center." Those around me screamed and shouted "No!" in disbelief. However, being an amateur photographer, and thinking that I might be able to help out, I ran directly toward the WTC. I stopped just short of the WTC at a corner and looked up. There before me stood the gaping hole and fire that had taken over the first building. I stood there in shock taking pictures, wanting to run even closer to help out, but I could not move. Soon I saw what looked like little angels floating down from the top of the building. I began to cry when I realized that these "angels" —in fact, desperate office workers—were coming down, some one by one, some even holding hands with another. Could I actually be seeing this disaster unfold with hundreds of people around me crying, screaming and running for safety? As I watched in horror, another white airliner came from the south and took aim at the South Tower. As the plane entered the building, there was an explosion and fire and soon debris (碎片) began to fall around me. It was then that I realized that we were being attacked and that this was just not a terrible accident. Yet, I still could not move, until I was pushed down by the crowd on the street, many now in a panic running toward the water, as far from the WTC as they could possibly get. All around me were the visual reminders of hundreds of people running in panic. There were shoes, hats, briefcases, pocketbooks, newspapers, and other personal items dropped as hundreds of people ran for safety. Much has been written about the disaster already. We have learned so much in such a small amount of time about appreciating life. In some way we must move forward, bury the dead, build a memorial for those lost, and begin the coping and healing process for the survivors. But healing takes time. Some have been able to head right back to work, others seek counseling, while others remain walking through the streets with expressionless faces. However, we are all united in our grief.

Do you know that all human beings have a "comfortable zone" regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk? This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures. Greeks, others of the Eastern Mediterranean, and many of those from South America normally stand close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. North Americans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that they tend to feel most comfortable at about 21 inches apart. In much of Asia and Africa, there is even more space between two speakers in conversation. This greater space subtly lends an air of dignity and respect. This matter of space is nearly always unconscious, but it is interesting to observe. This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent which they lean over one another in conversation, how they move as they argue, or make an emphatic point. In the United States, for example, people try to keep their bodies apart even in a crowded elevator; in Paris they take it as it comes! Although North Americans have a relatively wide "comfortable zone" for talking, they communicate , a great deal with their hands—not only with gestures but also with touch. They put a sympathetic hand on a person's shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around him in sympathy; they nudge a man in the ribs to emphasize a funny story; they pat an arm in reassurance or stroke a child's head in affection, they readily take someone's arm to help him across a street or direct him along an unfamiliar route. To many people—especially those from Asia or the Muslim countries—such bodily contact is unwelcome, especially if inadvertently done with the left-hand. (The left hand carries no special significance in the U. S. Many Americans are simply left-handed and use that hand more.)

BWritingDirections: In this part, you are to write within 30 minutes a composition of no less than 150 words on the following topic. You could follow the clues suggested by the picture given below. Remember to write the composition clearly on the ANSWER SHEET./B