You'd better ______ from talking too much

When I try to understand ______ that prevents so many Americans from being happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes.

The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U.S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birth rates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples. It is true that Americans do not typically plan their births to set an example for developing nations. We are more affected by women's liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid jobs are careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties, introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage—tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries in the near future. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the 19th century. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the good harvests of 1998 and 1999 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of the developing nations struggling under the weight of twice their present populations by the year 2010. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspiration will exceed resources. All this will lead to a population in the new century that is smaller than was feared a few years ago. For those anxious to see world population brought under control, the news is encouraging. What influences the birth rate most in the United States is ______.

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 one 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 day after day 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 combinations 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, buttermilk, 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 right to choose to be uniformed 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 all individuals 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 ______.

In general

She had a terrible accident

The Japanese take pride in doing a job and getting it done ______ much time is required.

He is quite worn out from years of hard work

After doing odd jobs for a week

Naturally

In the ______ of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Undergraduate students have no ______ to the rare books in the school library.

British food has a good reputation

Whether the eyes are "the window of the soul" is 1 ; that they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a fact. 2 the first two months of a baby's life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a 3 with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, nor will the sight of only one eye when the face is presented in 4 . This attraction to eyes 5 opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby 6 . In one study, when American four-year-olds were asked to draw people, 75% of them drew people with mouths, but 99% of them drew people with eyes. In Japan, however, where babies are 7 their mother's back, infants do not acquire as much 8 to eyes as they do in other cultures. 9 , Japanese adults make little use of the face either to encode or decode meaning. In fact, Argyle reveals that the " proper place to 10 one's gaze during a conversation in Japan is 11 the neck of one's conversation partner". The role of eye 12 in a conversational exchange between two Americans is well defined: speakers make contact with the eyes of their listener for 13 one second, then glance 14 as they talk; in a few moments they re-establish eye contact with the listener or 15 themselves that their audience is still attentive, then shift their gaze away 16 . Listeners, 17 , keep their eyes on the face of the speaker, allowing themselves to glance away only briefly. It is important that they 18 at the speaker at the precise moment when the speaker re-establishes eye contact: if they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are 19 and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will end the conversation. Just how critical this eye maneuvering is to the maintenance of conversational 20 becomes evident when two speakers are wearing dark glasses: there may be a sort of traffic jam of words caused by interruption, false starts, and unpredictable pauses.

Almost since the beginning of mankind

Upon returning to their tent on the riverbank

As is known to all

The works of Paraguayan artist Carlos Colombino are ______: they include sculpture, painting, printmaking, and architecture.

Although customers keep complaining about their poor service, they've made no ______ to make any improvement.

We think it is high time the French government ______ responsibility for their citizens and should pay for this kind of damage.