完形填空 Jesse was a straight-A studenta result of countless hours spent studying during college. She graduated at the top of her class and believed she would have no problem 【A1】 ________ (get) a job. However, after ten interviews and no job offers, she was starting to wonder 【A2】 ________ was wrong. At first I couldn‟t understand it, I mean, I‟m intelligent and diligent, why couldn‟t I get a job? In spite of having academic intelligence, Jesse was missing the intelligence that many 【A3】________ (employ) are now looking for, emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to understand your own emotions and the emotions of people around you. More and more companies use EI assessment tests to recruit(聘用) new staff. They have found that people with high EI form better 【A4】 rela_________ with their colleagues and can manage 【A5】 ________ (they) better. This benefits the company. For example, the French cosmetics company, L‟Oreal started to track the emotional intelligence of its employees in relation 【A6】 ________ their productivity. Their studies showed that employees with high EI scores sold goods worth in total almost $100,000 more than their colleagues with low EI scores. Clearly, employees with high EI are 【A7】 ________ (much) valuable to their companies. Jesse thinks that she spent so much of her college life studying alone that her social skills did not develop well. 【A8】Det________ to get straight As, she had not played any team sports or participated in any school groups, both of 【A9】________ would have helped develop social skills and EI. She did not know how to work with others, a key to success in most businesses. 【A10】 Al________ Jesse might not have high EI now, psychologists believe that she can improve it. She needs to identify people who are nature leaders, who work well with others and are great motivators. She should watch what they say and how they act in different situations, and try it out in her own life.

完形填空Today is the first day of spring

完形填空 He had just 【A1】 gra________ from Harvard University and was living in Manhattan. He loved the city and was beginning to feel at home on its streets. World War Ⅱ was raging in Europe, and like all other good citizens, he followed the headlines daily and did his part for the boys overseas. Hugging his jacket close, he stood shivering at the corner, waiting for the light to change and wondering 【A2】________ his enlisted friends might be staying on that cold winter night. He hoped they were safe. He shivered, only partially from the cold, and looked around him at the bright lights of Times Square. He was never 【A3】 ________ of this glittering scenery. His eye was caught by two men who were dressed in the 【A4】 uni________ of the Royal Air Force from England. They must be on leave, he thought. The men stopped him, glanced quickly at their watches, and then nodded and grinned at him. The taller of the two asked him, in the clipped accent of British, if this was Time Square. He suppressed a smile at such a touristy question and said that it was. The light changed, and the two RAF pilots fell into step with Harvard graduate as he crossed the street. The three men fell into conversation together as they wandered along the 【A5】 ________ (shine) streets. The Brits were thrilled to be in Times Square after all they have suffered in the war. They didn‟t go into detail about their wartime experience, and he didn‟t press them. He just enjoyed their pleasure in the Scene, which was marred only by the frequent checking of their watches. Finally, he asked if they had someplace to be, but they said they were free for the evening. He promptly invited them to have dinner with him at the Harvard Club, and the RAF pilots gladly 【A6】 ac________. The three men repaired immediately to the Harvard Club, where they dined leisurely and chatted late into the evening. The RAF pilots were good company and told many stories, although they glossed over their experiences in the war. They continued to check their watches frequently throughout the night, but he decided it was just a nervous habit they had picked 【A7】 ________ somewhere; possibly in the air force. As midnight approached, the two RAF pilots excused themselves and rose from the table. They thanked the Harvard man for a 【A8】 ________ (memory) evening and started for the door. Then the tall pilot turned back and told their host that they had always wanted to visit Times Square, but never had the opportunity. It was strange, the pilot added, that they had to wait until after they were dead, killed in action when their planes were shot down the night before over Berlin, to fulfill this dream. The Harvard man 【A9】 ________ (stiffen), his eyes widening incredulously and his mouth falling open in shock. He gasped but couldn‟t speak. The phantom RAF pilot smiled sardonically at him, nodded, and joined his friend in the doorway. Then the pilots vanished before the 【A10】as________ man‟s eyes, just at the stroke of twelve midnight.

完形填空A new book dealing with Chinas long history of calligraphy has just hit the market

完形填空 To a chorus of angry shouts and insults

完形填空The difference between a liquid and a gas is obvious 【A1】________ the conditions of temperature and pressure commonly found at the surface of the Earth

完形填空Birds are warm blooded animals

完形填空One of the most prevalent characteristics of nature is that it is so versatile

完形填空There is a story that is retold whenever a plane crash hits the headlines; if only the aircraft were made of the same 【A1】mat________ as the black box, then everybody would survive

完形填空I once asked advertising legend Carl Ally what makes the creative person tick. Ally 【A1】 res________, The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes 【A2】 la________ or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. I agree wholeheartedly. Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are 【A3】 ________ (make). Nonetheless, knowledge alone won‟t make a person creative. I think that we‟ve all known people 【A4】________ knew lots of facts and nothing creative happened. Their knowledge just sat in their crania because they didn‟t think about what they knew in any new ways. The real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge. Creative thinking 【A5】 req________ an attitude that allows you to search for ideas and manipulate your knowledge and experience. With this outlook, you try various approaches, first one, then another, often not getting anywhere. You use crazy, foolish, and impractical ideas as stepping stones to practical new ideas. You break the rules 【A6】 ________ (occasion), and explore for ideas in unusual outside places. In short, by adopting a creative outlook you open yourself up both to new possibilities and to change. A good example of a person who did this is Johann Gutenberg. What Gutenberg did was combine two previously unconnected ideas: the wine press and the coin punch. The purpose of the coin punch was to leave an image on a small area such as a gold coin. The 【A7】 fun________ of the wine press was, and still is, to apply force over a large area to squeeze the juice out of grapes. One day, Gutenberg, perhaps after he drunk a goblet or two of wine, playfully asked himself, What if I took a bunch of these coin punches and put them under the force of the wine press so that they 【A8】 ________ (leave) their image on paper? The resulting combination was the printing press and movable type. Navy Admiral Grace Hopper had the task of explaining the meaning of a nanosecond to some nontechnical computer users. A nanosecond is a billionth of a second, and it‟s the basic 【A9】 ti________ interval of a supercomputers internal clock. She wondered, How can I get them to understand the brevity of a nanosecond? Why not look at it 【A10】 ________ a space problem rather than a time problem? I‟ll just use the distance light travels in one billionth of a second. She pulled out a piece of string 30 centimeters long and told her visitors, Here is one nanosecond.

完形填空We always think it will never happen to me but disasters can strike any time anywhere

完形填空Scottish writer Adam Smith is often considered the most important economist the world has ever known

完形填空The latest issue of the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences reports that Asians and Westerners in fact view the world differently. The study, led by Hannah -Faye Chua, Juilie Boland and Richard Nisbett, tracked the eye ____1____. (move) of students when looking at a picture. The students involved in the study ____2____. in 25 European Americans and 27 native Chinese. The researchers found that Asian students spent more time studying the background of the picture. In ____3____. , the European American students concentrated on the foreground of the picture. It has been observed that Westerners attend more to focal objects, whereas Asians attend more to contextual ____4____. inf . In this study, the researchers examined the differences in cognitive processing styles between Asians and Westerners. They showed the difference between the two races are cultural, which dates ____5____. thousands of years. The key to Chinese culture is ____6____. har . Successful rice farmers in Asia long ago relied on close bonds with other farmers. The farmers often shared water and new techniques. Meanwhile, the West focuses on ways to get things done, while paying little attention to ____7____. Asians live in a more socially complicated world than Westerners do, so they are inclined to pay more attention to others whereas Westerners are ____8____. (individual). Reinforcing the belief that the perceptual differences are cultural, Asians raised in North America viewed the pictures similarly to those of Westerners ____9____. des . In this issue, there are other studies that have shown differences between Asians and European Americans when reading and writing. The studies, though, do not suggest that a particular race is more advanced ____10____. (intellect). Rather, they confirm that people from one culture do better on some tasks while people from other cultures do better on different tasks. Therefore, it would be hard to argue that one culture is generally outperforming the other.

完形填空High in the foothills of central Greece evidence is emerging that may explain one of the worlds longest-lasting myths

完形填空 In 1971

完形填空This year, record numbers of high school students obtained top grades in their final exams, yet employers complain that young people still lack the basic skills to succeed at work

完形填空Modern society excels in cynicism

完形填空 There is no magic recipe for success

完形填空The process by 【A1】________ of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things may be called the symbolic process

完形填空Following the warm reception of the English version of Peoples Literature, a landmark magazine 【A1】________(record) contemporary Chinese literary life, its German version was launched in late November, 2015