Every time a person eats something he makes a nutritional decision. He accepts or rejects the food available to him at home for meals or snacks. Or he selects food for himself at many places in the community, such as supermarkets, drive-ins, restaurants, and food counters in drugstores. These selections make a difference in how an individual looks, how he feels, and how well he can work and play. When a good assortment of food in appropriate amounts is selected and eaten, the consequences are more likely to be a desirable level of health and enough energy to allow one to be as active as he needs and wants to be. When choices are less than desirable, the consequences are likely to be poor health or limited energy or both. Studies of diets of individuals in the United States show that food selection is a highly individual matter, even among young children. Furthermore, far too many individuals of all ages are making poor choices today and are either now living with the consequences or will be in the future. Nutritionists and workers in allied professions have been concerned about helping people learn to select and enjoy a wide variety of food combination that can add up to a good diet. Most people believe that they are well fed—that the choices they make are good ones. After all, they are not really sick, neither are they hungry. However, their nutrition is usually poor in one respect or another. Milk and milk products, such as cheeses, ice cream or milk, butter milk, and yogurt, are often slighted. Then people may skip many fruits and vegetables, particularly those that are good sources of vitamins A and C. These include dark green, leafy vegetables; deep yellow vegetables; and citrus fruits and vegetables, such as cabbage, tomatoes, and green peppers. Every American has the fight to choose to be uninformed about nutrition as well as to be informed. If a person believes that she is well fed, attitudes, habits, and information cannot be forced upon her. There are life situations, however, that tend to cause an individual to want to know how to make the best choices. For example, a young couple is starting a family and must prepare food for young children. Food preference in America is ______.
When I was still an architecture student
我不同意你的观点，但我会誓死捍卫你发表那些观点的权力。如果我们每个人都能做到这一点，我们这个社会将会是一个和谐的、充满活力的社会。
The conquerors tried to ______ the very name of the peoples national hero from their memories.
Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state: without it, it 1 not be possible to pay the soldiers and policemen who protect us; 2 the workers in government offices who 3 our health, our food, our water, and all the other things that we cannot do for ourselves. 4 taxation, we pay for things that we need just 5 we need somewhere to live and something to eat. But 6 everyone knows that taxation is necessary, different people have different ideas about 7 taxation should be arranged. In most countries, a direct tax on 8 , which is called income tax, 9 . It is arranged in such 10 that the poorest people pay nothing, and the percentage of tax grows 11 as the taxpayer's income grows. In some countries, for example, the tax on the richest people 12 as high as ninety-five per cent! 13 countries with taxation nearly 14 have indirect taxation too. Many things imported into the country have to pay taxes or "duties." Of course, it is the men and women who buy these imported things in the shops 15 really have to pay the duties, in the 16 of higher prices. In some countries, 17 , there is a tax on things sold in the shops. If the most necessary things are taxed, a lot of money is 18 but the poor people suffer most. If unnecessary things 19 jewels and fur coats are taxed, less money is obtained but the tax is 20 , as the rich pay it.
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People throughout the world are doing anything they can to ______ the serious problem of environmental pollution.
She felt offended at my remarks, but it wasn't my______to hurt her.
It's very interesting to note where the debate about diversity (多样化) is taking place. It is taking place primarily in political circles. Here at the College Fund, we have a lot of contact with top corporate (公司的) leaders; none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their companies are to compete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the pool of potential employees. And in looking at where birth rates are growing and at where the population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn't occur in our society, they will not have the engineers, the scientists, the lawyers, or the business managers they will need. Likewise, I don't hear people in the academy saying "Let's go backward. Let's go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格选人才)" (which was never true—we never had a meritocracy, although we've come closer to it in the last 30 years). I recently visited a great little college in New York where the campus has doubled its minority population in the last six years. I talked with an African American who has been a professor there for a long time, and she remembers that when she first joined the community, there were fewer than a handful of minorities on campus. Now, all of us feel the university is better because of the diversity. So where we hear this debate is primarily in political circles and in the media—not in corporate board rooms or on college campuses. The word "imperative" (Para. 1) most probably refers to something ______.
He is______drinker, who has been imbibing for so long that he has figuratively speaking, grown old with the vice.
______ for the timely investment from the general public, our company would not be so thriving as it is.
On a warm sunny day the river seems______and benign, and it's hard to believe it can be dangerous.
Owing to an______lack of lower-income housing, the municipal government is embarrassed by the impressing housing issue.
She decided to keep reticent about the unpleasant past and ______ it to memory.
The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting the civilian public health infrastructure (建筑基础), the US military imposes a continuing economic blockade on Iraq which has directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. The US government is the primary financier and arms supplier for the decade-long Israeli war against the entire Palestinian people. The US armed forces and US-organized and/or US-financed ally or proxy forces have killed millions upon millions of civilians since the end of World War Ⅱ. This is the not-so-hidden meaning of the Stars and Stripes, as the vast majority of people around the world understand it. Now the US government has begun what it bills as an open-ended "War on Terrorism", which conveniently ignores the fact that in the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century it is the United States of America that, by its own definition, is the most prolific terrorist force in the world. At the same time US leaders are choosing to target whichever individuals, organizations, regimes and/or nation-states—among the wide array of opponents of US policies—are deemed most convenient this week, leaving the rest for next week next year or the next decade. This is, of course, a recipe for a perpetual war, which is as well understood by President Bush and the other architects of the "New World Order", as it was by the architects of a similar project of world empire that was proudly proclaimed the Third Reich (希特勒的第三帝国), under a flag with a similarly not-so-hidden meaning. Perpetual war serves a number of purposes for the present administration. It is under wartime conditions that the US will, at least initially, face the least resistance as it finishes the now over two century-long processes of gutting the Bill of Rights and voiding the inconvenient parts of the US Constitution. It is under conditions of war that the campaign to defeat the anti-globalization movement can be fought with increasingly militant and dirty tactics. It is under wartime conditions that all opponents of US policies anywhere in the world, including within the US itself, can be most easily labeled "terrorist", at the same time that the mass media can be most easily mobilized as a total propaganda machine. And it is under conditions of war that the arms production, oil production and military technology corporations that funded President Bush's election by the Supreme Court will be most handsomely rewarded without too many questions ever being asked. And best of all, wartime conditions lend themselves to the easy mobilization of xenophobic, politically reactionary, flag-waving patriotism. According to the passage, the purpose of the US veto against a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law is ______.
The low operating costs of the foreign company will______the high labor costs the business pays in its own country.
Should green plants disappear some day
John Grisham was born on February 2, 1955
Although he was not caught cheating on the exam, the feeling of guilt______ over and over again.