1 在人口稠密的城市，说一个人必须认识他的近邻这个观念早已湮灭，但在小城镇和乡村里却依旧存在。 在天地之间活相同的时间，走的路却可能完全不同。有人走得很远

Green means healthy outside of hospitals, too

She was ______ by the lack of appreciation shown of her hard work.

Operations which left patients ______ and in need of long periods of discovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable.

It's difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling

Desperation, hunger, thirst

The headlights of the approaching car were so______that the cyclist had to stop riding.

Three weeks after the suicide bombing, the police were still hunting for bombers for they believe more were______.

Malaria is an infectious parasitic disease that can be either acute or chronic and is frequently______.

Americans usually consider themselves a friendly people. Their friendships, however, tend to be shorter and more casual than friendships among people from other cultures. It is not uncommon for Americans to have only one close friend during their lifetime, and consider other "friends" to be just social acquaintances. This attitude probably has something to do with American mobility and the fact that Americans do not like to be dependent on other people. They tend to "compartmentalize (划分) friendships, having "friends at work", "friends on the softball team", "family friends", etc. Because the United States is a highly active society, full of movement and change, people always seem to be on the go. In this highly changed atmosphere, Americans can sometimes seem brusque (无礼的) or impatient. They want to get to know you as quickly as possible and then move on to something else. Sometimes, early on, they will ask you questions that you may feel very personal. No insult is intended; the questions usually grow out of their genuine interest or curiosity, and their impatience to get to the heart of the matter. And the same goes for you. If you do not understand certain American behavior or you want to know more about them, do not hesitate to ask them questions about themselves. Americans are usually eager to explain all about their country or anything "American" in which you may be interested. So much so in fact that you may become tired of listening. It doesn't matter because Americans tend to be uncomfortable with silence during a conversation. They would rather talk about the weather or the latest sports scores, for example, than deal with silence. On the other hand, don't expect Americans to be knowledgeable about international geography or world affairs, unless those subjects directly involve the United States. Because the United States is not surrounded by many other nations, some Americans tend to ignore the rest of the world. The general topic of the passage is ______.

To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf's assertion that social change exists everywhere. Technology, the application of knowledge for practical ends, is a major source of social change. Yet we would do well to remind ourselves that technology is a human creation; it does not exist naturally. A spear or a robot is as much a cultural as a physical object. Until humans use a spear to hunt game or a robot to produce machine parts, neither is much more than a solid mass of matter. For a bird looking for an object on which to rest, a spear or robot serves the purpose equally well. The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russian nuclear accident at Chernobyl make people see how important the human quality of technology is; they provide cases in which well-planned systems suddenly became completely disordered and there was no ready hand to set them right. Since technology is a human creation, we are responsible for what is done with it. Pessimists worry that we will use our technology eventually to blow our world and ourselves to pieces. But they have been saying this for decades, and so far we have managed to survive and even flourish. Whether we will continue to do so in the years ahead remains uncertain. Clearly, the impact of technology on our lives deserves a closer examination. Few technological developments have had a greater impact on our lives than the computer revolution. Scientists and engineers have designed specialized machines that can do the tasks that once only people could do. There are those who assert that the switch to an information-based economy is in the same camp as other great historical milestones, particularly the Industrial Revolution. Yet when we ask why the industrial Revolution was a revolution, we find that it was not the machines. The primary reason why it was revolutionary is that it led to great social change. It gave rise to mass production and, through mass production, to a society in which wealth was not confined to the few. In somewhat similar fashion, computers promise to revolutionize the structure of American life, particularly as they free the human mind and open new possibilities in knowledge and communication. The Industrial Revolution supplemented and replaced the muscles of humans and animals by mechanical methods. The computer extends this development to supplement and replace some aspects of the mind of human beings by electronic methods. It is the capacity of the computer for solving problems and making decisions that represents its greatest potential and that poses the greatest difficulties in predicting the impact on society. A spear or a robot has the quality of technology only when it ______.

Retirement is obviously a very complex ______ period; and the earlier you start planning for it, the better.

The ______ that sport builds character is well accepted by people nowadays.

Despite the fact that the two council members belonged to different political parties, they ______ the issue of how to finance the town debt.

It did not take long for the central bank to ______ their fears.

The largest system serving e-mail messengers is the Internet, a ______ of millions of computers linked worldwide.

We need one hundred more signatures before we take the______to the governor.

In its broadest sense, attribution theory is concerned with how ordinary people make sense of the world and it______more controllable and predictable by making attributions as to the causes of people's behaviors and events.

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The old lady was immediately sent to a nearby hospital when she ______ from heart stroke.