Walking is the best exercise for physical health. The impact of weight on your limbs and joints will strengthen them against bone disease, and although this happens more with older people, it's never too late to build up bone density. It increases circulation and makes your metabolism work faster. This means you'll burn more calories, and the nutrients from food will be absorbed by your body in a more efficient way. This will also encourage you to drink more water, which will improve digestion and clean your system. Among many benefits is the glow of good health. Walking is also good for protection against heart disease and can lower cholesterol.

The meeting was ______ over by the mayor to discuss the tax raise in the city.

Doctor says there is little prospect of any ______ in his condition.(improve)

This work costs us nothing; it's all done by ______.

Clothes play a critical part in the conclusions we reach by providing clues to who people are, who they are not, and who they would like to be. They tell us a good deal about the wearer's background, personality, status, mood, and social outlook. Since clothes are such an important source of social information, we can use them to manipulate people's impression of us. Our appearance assumes particular significance in the initial phases of interaction that is likely to occur. An elderly middle-class man or woman may be alienated by a young adult who is dressed in an unconventional manner, regardless of the person's education, background, or interests. People tend to agree on what certain types of clothes mean. Adolescent girls can easily agree on the lifestyles of girls who wear certain outfits(套装), including the number of boyfriends they likely have had and whether they smoke or drink. Newscasters, or the announcers who read the news on TV, are considered to be more convincing, honest, and competent when they are dressed conservatively. And college students who view themselves as taking an active role in their interpersonal relationships say they are concerned about the costumes they must wear to play these roles successfully. Moreover, many of us can relate instances in which the clothing we wore changed the way we felt about ourselves and how we acted. Perhaps you have used clothing to gain confidence when you anticipated a stressful situation, such as a job interview or a court appearance. In the workplace, men have long had well-defined precedents and role models for achieving success. It has been otherwise for women. A good many women in the business world are uncertain about the appropriate mixture of 'masculine' and 'feminine' attributes they should convey by their professional clothing. The variety of clothing alternatives to women has also been greater than that available for men. Male administrators tend to judge women more favorably for managerial positions when the women display less 'feminine' grooming(打扮)—shorter hair, moderate use of makeup, and plain tailored clothing. As one male administrator confessed, 'An attractive woman is definitely going to get a longer interview, but she won't get a job.'

I ought first to have asked your ______.

We have no right to interfere ______ the internal affairs of other countries.

A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after day my men and I struggled to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability. Accountability isn't hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences. Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on—accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law--and, ultimately, no society. My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Fortunately, there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and their parents hold up standards that proclaim: 'In this family certain things are not tolerated they simply are not done!' Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restrains are loosening. Your typical robber has gone. He considers your property his property: he takes what he wants, including your life if you engage him. The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it's the criminal who is considered victimized, by his underprivileged upbringing by the school that didn't teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a stable home. I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.

Heredity and environment: which is stronger? The potentials which a person is born with determine in some way what he will do in life. Therefore heredity is fate, a kind of predestination. However, genes do not work in a vacuum; as soon as we begin considering the role that they play in the development of the individual, we see that there can be no development without the interacting environment. No characteristic is caused exclusively by either environment or genes. The relative effects of heredity and environment are most clearly observable in identical twins. Most identical twins are raised together and are remarkably alike in both appearance and behavior. These cases demonstrate that individuals with the same genes, when raised in the same environment, will respond to it in much the same way. They do not indicate what would happen if these identical individuals were raised separately.

According to psychologists, an emotion is aroused when a man or animal views something as either bad or good. When a person feels like running away from something he thinks will hurt him, we call this emotion fear. If the person wants to remove the danger by attacking it, we call the emotion anger. The emotions of joy and love are aroused when we think something can help us. An emotion does not have to be created by something in the outside world. It can be created by a person's thoughts. Everyone has emotions. Many psychologists believe that infants are born without emotions. They believe children learn emotions just as they learn to read and write. A growing child not only learns his emotions but learns how to act in certain situations because of an emotion. Psychologists think that there are two types of emotions: positive and negative. Positive emotions include love, liking, joy, delight, and hope. They are aroused by something that appeals to a person. Negative emotions make a person unhappy or dissatisfied. They include anger, fear, despair, sadness, and disgust. In growing up, a person learns to cope with the negative emotions in order to be happy. And if a person has the ability to tackle negative emotions so that he is not affected terribly by the unhappiness and dissatisfaction, he will live a better life. Emotions may be weak or strong. Some strong emotions are so unpleasant that a person will try any means to escape from them in order to feel happy. The person may choose unusual ways to avoid the emotion. They may choose drinking alcohol or even taking drugs to make them forget the sadness. However, sometimes, the excessive ways of escaping only result in tragedy. Strong emotions can make it hard to think and to solve problems. They may prevent a person from learning or paying attention to what he is doing. For example, a student taking an examination may be so worried about failing that he cannot think properly. The worry drains valuable mental energy he needs for the examination.

They feel other children's pain and ______ even before they fully realize that they exist as individuals.(comfort)

It was reported that there ______ more than two thousand deaths in the mud—rock flow in Zhouqu.

阅读理解Passage 3 The scientific name is the Holocene Age, but climatologists like to call our current climatic phase the Long Summer

阅读理解Passage One If the new art is not accessible to everyone, which certainly seems to be the case, this implies that its impulses are not of a generically human kind

阅读理解They couldnt borrow money from anywhere because their neighbors were all on bad terms with them

阅读理解Passage Two Science and Technology Optimism and empowerment

阅读理解Passage Three If animals do have intelligence, how do scientists measure it? Before defining animals intelligence, scientists defined what is not intelligence

阅读理解All their teachers looked for were mistakes, and there are so many kinds of mistakes in writing that their students despair of ever learning to avoid them

阅读理解Passage 4 EDUCATING PSYCHE Educating Psyche by Beraie Neville is a book which looks at radical new approaches to learning, describing the effects of emotion, imagination and the unconscious on learning