Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks 21 than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more 22 than we realize. In fact, non-verbal (非言语) communication takes up about 50% of what we really 23 . And body language is particularly 24 when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so 25 , a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings occur as a result of it. 26 , different societies treat the 27 , between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having 28 , contact (接触) even with friends, and certainly not with 29 . People from Latin American countries 30 , touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in 31 . It may look like a Latino is 32 a Norwegian all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving 33 . The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as pushiness, will keep 34 which the Latino will in return regard as 35 . Clearly, a great deal is going on when people 36 . And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when parties are from 37 cultures, there's a strong possibility of 38 . But whatever the situation, the best 39 is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be 40 .

The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming. This 1 comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study 2 how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. It 3 an extra 11 million tons of carbon dioxide. There have been 4 for taxes on junk food in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food 5 to people's cars. 'We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost,' Schmidt said. 'Similarly, leading a lazy lifestyle will end 6 costing taxpayers more.' US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first 7 was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such 8 are getting attention. At the US Obesity Society's annual meeting, one person 9 obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked 10 there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. 'The funny thing was that everyone took it 11 ' Oliver said. In a 1960s study, children were 12 drawings of children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked 13 they would want for a friend. The obese child was picked 14 . Three researchers recently repeated the study 15 college students. Once again, 16 no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person. But, researchers say, getting 17 is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is 18 . Science has shown that they have 19 personal control over their weight. Genes also 20 a part.

It is in recent years ______ people have recognized the scope and complexity of the population problems.

In April，thousands of holidaymakers remained ______ abroad due to the volcanic ash cloud.

Without suitable entertainment, these young people often get bored and take refuge ______ drinking and taking drugs.

Each stage of the process incurs an ______ risk.(add)

One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装). On September 11, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in my lap, saying, 'I promised you a gift, and here it is.' What an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it! One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I head mum and Dad whispering such words as 'hopeless', 'pitiful', and 'dying', which sounded ominous. 'Christmas was coming, don't expect any presents this year' Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. I'd never seen him cry before. The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say, 'What? He's all right?'. He hung up and shouted upstairs. 'The hospital said we can bring Richard home!' 'Thank god!' I heard Mum cry. From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty: they were filled with love!

The general insisted on taking ______ as he did not trust the defeated leaders.

It is well known that knowledge is the ______ condition for the expansion of mind.

Night was falling. All was darkness ______ an occasional glimmer in the distance.

He ______ of the first truly portable computer in 1968.

Small wonder that many voters hold their politicians in ______.

The plan was ______ when it was discovered just how much the scheme would cost.

According to the international regulation, the playing of the national anthem ______ all sports events.

We lost our way in that small village, otherwise we ______ more places of interest yesterday.

There are many different kinds of runners, from casual joggers to 41 race-runners to marathoners. Each runner should have a specific training schedule 42 to the individual's goals and abilities. A good schedule for a beginner is to run 20 minutes at a time, every other day. Occasionally, additional time off is needed because of illness or 43 . Depending on the length of the break, it is often advisable to work back into a regular workout 44 , rather than jumping back into the normal routine immediately. The biggest factors in becoming a better runner are 45 injuries and working to build a solid training base. A base is a runner's collection of workouts over time. The more solid and consistent the runner is in training, the stronger the base. Like the base of a pyramid, only a solid foundation will provide the 46 necessary for a runner to reach his or her peak. In the short term, there are techniques that can help a runner 47 better. Mixing in higher speed workouts is one 48 , but this can lead to injury unless the individual builds up to them gradually. Hill and trail running builds strength, and weightlifting can also help. Many runners will at some point want to 49 a race, to push themselves and to perhaps see how they 50 with other runners at their age and experience level. (A) support (B) regular (C) enter (D) gradually (E) immediately (F) adopted (G) trying (H) perform (I) damage (J) come (K) injury (L) compare (M) strategy (N) action (O) avoiding

The drivers' strike has ______ the region's public transport system.

The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall — producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources(private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.

Look at the terrible situation I am in! If only I ______.

The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like 'Palaeolithic Man', 'Neolithic Man', etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label 'Legless Man'. Histories of the time will go something like this: 'In the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of their extraordinary way of life. In those days, people thought nothing of travelling hundreds of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn't use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks.' 'The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird's-eye view of the world—or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: 'I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea.' The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says 'I've been there.' You mention the remotest, most evocative place—names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say 'I've been there'—meaning, 'I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.' When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. He experiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travelers.