She was ______ from the factory because she was not qualified.

______ the surface of metal，but also weakens it.

His sister left home in1998，and ______ since.

Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops and factories are discovering the greater efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the 'typical' Frenchman produces more, earns more and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness or individuality. Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that 'assembly-line life' will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life—to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local care? Since the late 1950's life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence. In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modem, industrial France is preferable to the old.

—You can ask your brother for help. —He isn't at home. If he ______ ，I ______.

______ from the top of the tower，the south foot of the mountain is a sea of trees.

This CD costs me ______ the one I bought the other day.

Before the hospital treatment, he looked like a ______ but a month later he said he felt like an Olympic champion.

During the famine, many people were ______ to eating grass and leaves.

Come and have dinner with us this evening, ______?

Above the trees are the hills, ______ magnificence the river faithfully reflects on the surface.

They are ______ parents and let their children make their own decisions on different things.

______ a little earlier this morning! I missed the school bus by only a minute and had to wait in the cold for nearly an hour!

The writer ______ life in a refugee camp very vividly.

In recent years, the government has ______ the control over the newspapers, and the newspapers can report more and more true facts of the matters.

That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but ______ the police.

假定你是某中学的学生李华。请用英语给出版社会的编辑写封信，表达你对现在使用的英语材料的看法，内容主要包括： 优点：1. 话题广泛； 2. 图片丰富； 3. 有助于提高 学习兴趣。 建议：适当降低词汇难度。 注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 可以适当增加细节，以使用文连贯； 3. 开头语已您写好，不讲总词数。

I would only lose my clean license if ever I had a car accident in which I was driving ______ the influence of alcohol.

The time is not far away ______ modern communication will become widespread in China's vast countryside.

For those who study the development of intelligence(智力)in the animal world, self-awareness is an important measurement. An animal that is aware(意识)of itself has a high level of intelligence. Awareness can be tested by studying whether the animal recognizes itself in the mirror, that is, its own reflected image(反射出的影像). Many animals fail this exercise bitterly, paying every little attention to the reflected image. Only humans, and some intelligent animals like apes and dolphins, have shown to recognize that the image in the mirror is of themselves. Now another animal has joined the club. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that an Asian elephant has passed the mirror self-reflection test. A．M. de Waal of Emory University. With their large brains, Reiss said, elephants 'seemed like cousins to apes and dolphins.' The researchers tested Happy, Maxine and Patty, three elephants at the Bronx Zoo. They put an 8-foot-square mirror on a wall of the animals' play area (out of the sight of zoo visitors) and recorded what happened with cameras, including one built in the mirror. The elephants used their long noses to find what was behind it, and to examine parts of their bodies. Of the three, Happy then passed the test, in which a clear mark was painted on one side of her face. She could tell the mark was there by looking in the mirror, and she used the mirror to touch the mark with her long nose. Diana Reiss said, 'We knew elephants were intelligent, but now we can talk about their intelligence in a better way.'