They would rather I ______ tomorrow.

The new factory that has been built next to us has ______ the value of our house.

The guests, having eaten until they were ______

When you meet Tim Winton

The chairman requested that ______.

Steel is not as ______ as cast iron; it does not break as easily.

The members of Parliament were ______ that the government had not consulted them.

Although he has had no formal education

Many Americans think a national committee should be formed to discuss ______ to existing mass transit system.

三权分立制度【请注意：29、30、31三个小题有顺序要求】 国家的 (29) 、 (30) 、 (31) 三种权力分别由三个机关独立行使，并相互 (32) 的制度。三权分立制度是根据近代分权学说建立起来的。近代分权学说由 (33) (34) 约翰.洛克倡导，由 (35) (36) 、法学家孟德斯鸠完成。它建立的根据是 (33) 的君主立宪制， (37) 是与社会契约论相结合的近代自然法学说。三权分立制度为绝大多数的资本主义国家所采用，是资本主义国家的国家机关组织与活动的基本制度，但因各国国情不同而有不同的形式。 美国是实行三权分立制度的典型国家。美国宪法规定， (38) 属于由参、众两院组成的合众国国会， (39) 属于美国总统， (40) 属于最高法院及国会依法随时设立的下级法院。 (A)补充 (B)德国 (C)法国 (D)法理依据 (E)管理 (F)管理权 (G)管辖 (H)管辖权 (I)理论基础 (J)理论依据 (K)立法 (L)立法权 (M)司法 (N)司法权 (O)思想家 (P)文学家 (Q)西班牙 (R)行政 (S)行政权 (T)英国 (U)影响 (V)哲学家 (W)政治家 (X)执法 (Y)执法权 (Z)制衡

To all the world

The manager tried to wave aside these issues as ______ details that would be settled later.

It is safe to say that eventually

The scientist could hardly find sufficient grounds ______ his arguments in favor of the new theory.

They used to quarrel a lot

If only our team ______ one more point!

It is time that the government ______ measures to protect the rare birds and animals.

The modern cult of beauty is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. "Old ladies" are already becoming rare. In a few years, we may well believe, they will be extinct. White hair and wrinkles, a bent back and hollow cheeks will come to be regarded as medievally old fashioned. The crone of the future will be golden, curly and cherry lipped, and slender. This desirable consummation will be due in part to skin foods and injections of paraffin wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, in part to improved health, due in its turn to a more rational mode of life. Ugliness is one of the symptoms of disease, beauty of health. In so far as the campaign for beauty is also a campaign for more health, it is admirable and, up to a point, genuinely successful. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of health is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. The apparatus for mimicking the symptoms of health is now within the reach of every moderately prosperous person; the knowledge of the way in which real health can be achieved is growing, and will in time, no doubt, be universally acted upon. When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful—as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features, with or without surgical and chemical aid, permits? The answer is emphatically: No. For real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self. The beauty of a porcelain jar is a matter of shape, of color, of surface texture. The jar may be empty or tenanted by spiders, full of honey or stinking slime—it makes no difference to its beauty or ugliness. But a woman is alive, and her beauty is therefore not skin deep. The surface of the human vessel is affected by the nature of its spiritual contents. I have seen women who, by the standards of a connoisseur of porcelain, were ravishingly lovely. Their shape, their color, their surface texture were perfect. And yet they were not beautiful. For the lovely vase was either empty or filled with some corruption. Spiritual emptiness or ugliness shows through. And conversely, there is an interior light that can transfigure forms that the pure aesthetician would regard as imperfect or downright ugly. There are numerous forms of psychological ugliness. There is an ugliness of stupidity, for example, of unawareness (distressingly common among pretty women). An ugliness also of greed, of lasciviousness, of avarice. All the deadly sins, indeed, have their own peculiar negation of beauty. On the pretty faces of those especially who are trying to have a continuous "good time", one sees very often a kind of bored sullenness that ruin all their charm. I remember in particular two young American girls I once met in North Africa. From the porcelain specialist point of view, they were extremely beautiful But a sullen boredom was so deeply stamped into their fresh faces, their gait and gestures expressed so weary a listlessness that it was unbearable to look at them. These exquisite creatures were positively repulsive. Because of skin foods, paraffin wax, facial surgery, mud baths and paint, ______.

______ that the pilot couldn't fly through it.

Some believe that in the age of identikit computer games, mass entertainment and conformity on the supermarket shelves, truly inspired thinking has gone out of the window. But, there are others who hold the view that there is still plenty of scope for innovation, lateral thought and creative solutions. Despite the standardization of modern life, there is an unabated appetite for great ideas, visionary thinking and inspired debate. In the first of a series of monthly debates on contemporary issues, we ask two original thinkers to discuss the nature of creativity. Here is the first one. YES. Absolutely. Since I started working as an inventor 10 or 12 years ago, I've seen a big change in attitudes to creativity and invention. Back then, there was hardly any support for inventors, apart from the national organisation the Institute of Patentees and Inventors. Today, there are lots of little inventors' clubs popping up all over the place, my last count was 19 nationally and growing. These nonprofit clubs, run by inventors for inventors, are an indication that people are once again interested in invention. I've been a project leader, a croupier, an IT consultant and I've written a motor manual. I spent my teens under a 1950s two tone Riley RME car, learning to put it together. Back in the Sixties, kids like me were always out doing things, making go-karts, riding bicycles or exploring. We learned to overcome challenges and solve problems. We weren't just sitting at a PlayStation, like many kids do today. But I think, and hope, things are shifting back. There's a lot more interest in design and creativity and such talents are getting a much higher profile in the media. It's evident with TV programmes such as Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge or BBC2's The Apprentice and Dragon's Den, where people are given a task to solve or face the challenge of selling their idea to a panel. And, thankfully, the image of the mad scientist with electrified hair working in the garden shed is long gone—although, there are still a few exceptions! That's not to say there aren't problems. With the decline in manufacturing we are losing the ability to know how to make things. There's a real skills gap developing. In my opinion, the Government does little or nothing to help innovation at the lone-inventor or small or medium enterprise level. I would love to see more money spent on teaching our school kids how to be inventive. But, despite everything, if you have a good idea and real determination, you can still do very well. My own specialist area is packaging closures—almost every product needs it. I got the idea for Squeezeopen after looking at an old tin of boot polish when my mother complained she couldn't get the lid off. If you can do something cheaper, better, and you are 100 per cent committed, there is a chance it will be a success. I see a fantastic amount of innovation and opportunities out there. People don't realise how much is going on. New materials are coming out all the time and the space programme and scientific research are producing a variety of spin-offs. Innovation doesn't have to be high-tech: creativity and inventing is about finding the right solution to a problem, whatever it is. There's a lot of talent out there and, thankfully, some of the more progressive companies are suddenly realising they don't want to miss out—it's an exciting time. What is the debate concerned with?