how because of anotherA. has 650 employees in Coventry and【T7】______ 200 at a center in ManchesterB. shows【T8】______ popular our phone banking service is with our customersC.【T9】______ the growth of its phone banking service Barclays Bank is setting up a call center in Sunderland【T10】______ This is a welcome decision for the north-east, which companies eonsidered less attractive than regions such as London and Scotland in their list of the best locations for call centers. Opening early next year, the center is expected to employ 2, 000 people over the next three years. Barclaycall, the phone banking service, was introduced in 1994 and has more than 600,000 customers. The service【T11】______ Barclaycall is attracting 25, 000 new customers every month and the bank expects one million customers over the next two years. One director said: " Opening another call center【T12】______ Barclays will continue to invest to satisfy their needs. "

"Years ago, a friend of mine observed that 80 percent of the people in this country have too much self-esteem and 20 percent have much too little. That struck me as pretty accurate, but psychologists will tell you that self-esteem is not a constant. People's appraisal of their own worth varies... I have the impression that more people have unstable self-esteem than before. I say this because some of the traditional standards people used to measure their own worth have eroded (middle class respectability), whereas more people now seem to measure themselves against celebrities and superstars. It would be interesting to know if anybody has studied changes in the criteria we use to measure self-worth. " Comment 1: You bring up an interesting point because I do believe values and beliefs have changed. It would be very interesting to see the criteria used for self-worth. I find it hard to believe that only 20% of people have low self-esteem. I've been following Brene Brown's thoughts on the subject of self-worth, and low self-worth (on some level) seems much more common. Comment 2: If the quality of one's self-esteem is going to be judged by comparisons with those who are celebrities and superstars, then the entire exercise is really pointless. Comment 3: Self-esteem solution; A happy marriage. Comment 4: Ego (self-worth) is proportionate to wealth. The more wealth, the more self-worth. Comment 5: Benjamin Franklin said it best, and it applies to all facets of life. "Contentment will make a poor man rich just as discontent will make a rich man poor." It does not mean not try to do your best, or be the richest. It simply means once you've done your best be content with yourself, just as if you don't give your best effort discontent is sure to follow. Comment 6: I've "retired" from 30 years of expensive, if interesting, "personal growth" and "self-improvement. " much probably motivated by trying to "fix" myself. Hanging out with friends at a local cafe is way more satisfying. Comment 7: A related concept you may be interested in is the "sociometer theory" of self-esteem, pioneered by Mark Leary (Wake Forest). Basically it states that our self-esteem is determined by the amount of perceived social acceptance/rejection, and that determination is full of cognitive biases and errors. Awesome stuff.

A. Wushu schools have developed quickly.B. It can strengthen physical health.C. Wushu has a very deep base from the masses.A: I've an admiration for Chinese Kung Fu. Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jackie Chan are very popular in movies circle.B: I like the movie Huang Feihong best. Do you enjoy swordsman movie?A: Sure.B: But someone said that the swordsman was a dream of the modern people.A: The value of Wushu itself is very high.【D4】______B: In recent years,【D5】______A: Tell me the reason.B: Because the government calls on the whole people participating in keep-fit exercise and encourages the masses to run schools. In addition,【D6】______

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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (承担的义务), self-improvement. Ask a bachelor (单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three-day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money, buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

A. That is the case with Zhangjiajie where waters and mountains can be seen together everywhereB. What make Zhangjiajie unique and charming are its exotic mountains, waters, and its peopleC. All of these have been arranged by natureD. It is home of a World Natural Heritage site Wulingyuan.A: Good morning, Mr. Black.B: Good morning, Miss Wu. First of all, I'd like to thank you for your kind invitation to visit your beautiful country.A: We've been looking forward to your visit. It is a great pleasure for us to have you as our guest.B: Thank you very much! I have heard a lot about China's first forest park—the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Could you please tell me something about it?A: Ok! Zhangjiajie is located in western Hunan Province.【D7】______ .B: I've heard that senior experts from UNESCO on an inspection tour of Zhangjiajie were amazed at its unique beauty. They exclaimed, "Fantastic!" and concluded that Zhangjiajie was qualified to be a World Natural Heritage site for its unique natural scenery, near perfect biological system, and ingenious combination of nature and humanism.A: Yes. Indeed.【D8】______ .B: What are the mountains and waters like?A: The most attractive scene is the mysterious mountain covered with dense, primeval forests. It is said that 23 species of rare animals and more than 3,000 species of plants are living in the misty world. There are 243 pillar peaks, each over 1,000 meters high that are often shrouded in mist and drizzle. Together, the peaks form several "peak forests" that are rarely found anywhere else. There are also tall stone trees, slim stone bamboo, and stumpy stone mushrooms. Amid stone flowers are stone lions, stone tigers, stone tortoises, and stone rabbits.【D9】______ .B: But how did the exotic landscape come into being?A: It's perhaps the weathering of a quartz sandstone stratum formed a forest peaks.B: There must be waters where there are mountains.A: Naturally.【D10】______ . On high mountains there are lakes and at their foot rivers flow. Waterfall cascade from cliffs and in rock crevices water gathers in pools. Here and there mountain springs can be seen gushing forth.B: Then what is unique about its people?A: Zhangjiajie has a population of 1.54 million. 72% of which are ethnic minorities such as Tujia, Miao and Bai. The original inhabitants are called the Tujia which means locals, and the latecomers are called Hakkas which means guests. Tujia men are short, but very brave. Perhaps it is the environment that makes them so.B: It's really interesting! Thank you for your description of Zhangjiajie.A: You're welcome!

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In the past few decades, remarkable findings have been made in ethology, the study of animal social behavior. Earlier scientists had【C1】______ that nonhuman social life was almost totally instinctive or fixed by genetics. Much more careful observation has shown that【C2】______ variation occurs among the social ties of most species, showing that learning is a part of social life. That is, the statuses are not solely fixed by the genes.【C3】______ , the learning that occurs is often at an early age in a process that is called imprinting. Imprinting is clearly not instinctive, but it is not quite like the learning of humans; it is something in between the two. An illustration best【C4】______ the nature of imprinting. Once, biologists thought that ducklings followed the mother duck because of instincts. Now we know that, shortly after they hatch, ducklings fix【C5】______ any object about the size of a duck and will henceforth follow it. So ducklings may follow a basketball or a briefcase if these are【C6】______ for the mother duck at the time when imprinting occurs. Thus, social ties can be considerably【C7】______ , even ones that have a considerable base【C8】______ by genetics. Even among the social insects something like imprinting must influence social behavior. For example, biologists once thought bees communicated with others purely【C9】______ instinct. But, in examining a "dance" that bees do to indicate the distance and direction of a pollen source, observers found that bees raised in isolation could not communicate effectively. At a higher level, the genetic base seems to be much more for an all-purpose learning rather than the more specific responses of imprinting. Chimpanzees, for instance, generally【C10】______ very good mother but Jane Goodall reports that some chimps carry the infant upside down or otherwise fail to nurture the young.

Excerpt 1 The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike. Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies, however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong. We are fortunate that it is, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations. The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.Excerpt 2 The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "so much important attached to intellectual pursuits". According to many books and articles, New England's leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.Excerpt 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson and other Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children: "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn exemplified American anti-intellectualism. Its hero avoids being civilized—going to school and learning to read—so he can preserve his innate goodness.Excerpt 4 While often praised by foreigners for its emphasis on the basics, Japanese education tends to stress test taking and mechanical learning over creativity and self-expression. "Those things that do not show up in the test scores personality, ability, courage or humanity are completely ignored," says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's education committee. "Frustration against this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild." Last year Japan experienced 2,125 incidents of school violence, including 929 assaults on teachers. Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders are seeking a return to the prewar emphasis on moral education. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was then education minister, raised eyebrows when he argued that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World War Ⅱ had weakened the "Japanese morality of respect for parents. "Excerpt 5 There are some good arguments for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the professions they want to join. It is, however, pre-sumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists, so many business-men, so many accountants. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed, number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.Excerpt 6 What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America-breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine? Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country's excellent elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological. Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics, especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry. Acute foreign observers related American adaptiveness and inventiveness to this educational advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported, "With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline, the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman."

I shall never forget the look of intense anguish on the face of her parents when they heard the news.

Write a composition of at least 150 words about the topic：How to Reduce Traffic Accidents? You should write according to the outline given below： 1．我国交通事故问题已经不容忽视 2．结合实际现状来说明交通事故频繁发生的原因 3．针对这种状况阐明自己的观点并得出结论

Not until actually faced with water scarcity________appreciate the value of water to a region.

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Credit creates the false idea that you can own things without paying for them.

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I'm in a position to think about my future and plan it a little more rather than just waiting for what happens.

On hearing of the case some time later, Conan Doyle was convinced that the man was not guilty, and immediately went to work to ascertain the truth.

None of us expected the chairman to______at the party. We thought he was still in hospital.

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