It was the other way round. It was my friend who wanted to go swimming—not me. The underlined part means ______.

Read carefully the following excerpt on credit card, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should: -summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then -comment on whether credit card will bring harm to college students. You should support yourself with information from the excerpt. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.Credit Card Debt Can Harm College Students College students are running up an alarmingly large amount of credit card debt these days and it is only increasing with the passage of time. The average undergraduate student carries $2,500 in credit card debt, and when they graduate from college they begin their new lives with debt that they can't pay. Students figure "I'll live like I want to live now and then when I get a job, it will be easy to pay it back." This is often not the case. Lower-than-expected salaries, plus higher-than-expected living expens-es and hefty student loan payments, make handling credit card debt all the more difficult for students and recent graduates. The worst part about college students having so much credit card debt is that it takes so long to pay it off. Even if an individual is able to make the minimum payments, it would take more than 12 years and $1,115 in interest to pay off a $1,000 bill on a card with an 18 percent annual rate. If students fall behind in their payments, they get slammed with high late fees. And it's easy for things to get out of hand. "Of course, there are two sides to this story," Charles Hughes, a Certified Financial Planner said. "Most college students start out with little or no credit. Having a credit card seems like a good idea so they can start building a credit history in anticipation of owning a new, or better, car and some day their own home."

The physicist has made a discovery, ______ of great importance to the progress of science and technology.[1997]

The law on clrinking and driving is ______ stated.

The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and hundreds of jobs are _____.

He ______ round through these figures and told the manager what he thought of them.

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It is believed that the authorities are thinking of _____new taxes to raise extra revenue.

The experiment was ______ we had anticipated.

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In Japan, where career opportunities for women are few, where divorce can mean a life of hardship, and where most female names are still formed using a word for child, a woman's independence has always come at a steep price. Notions of women's liberation have never taken root among Japanese women. But with scant open conflict, the push for separate burials is quietly becoming one of the country's fastest growing social trends. In a recent survey by the TBS television network, 20 percent of the women who responded said they hoped to be buried separately from their husbands. The funerary revolt comes as women here annoy at Japan's slow pace in providing greater equality between the sexes. The law, for example, still makes it almost impossible for a woman to use her maiden name after marriage. Divorce rates are low by western standards, meanwhile, because achieving financial independence, or even obtaining a credit card in one's own name, are insurmountable hurdles for many divorced women. Until recently, society enforced restrictions on women even in death. Under Japan's complex burial customs, divorced or unmarried women were traditionally unwelcome in most graveyards, where plots are still passed down through the husband's family and descendants must provide maintenance for burial sites or lose them. "The woman who wanted to be buried alone couldn't find a graveyard until about 10 years ago, " said Haruyo Inoue, a sociologist of death and burial at Japan University. She said that graveyards that did not require descendants, in order to accommodate women, began appearing around 1990. Today, she said, that there are close to 400 of these cemeteries in Japan. That is just one sign of stirring among Japanese women, who are also pressing for the first time to change the law to be able to use their maiden names after marriage. Although credit goes beyond any individual, many women cite Junko Mastubara, a popular writer on women's issues, with igniting the trend to separate sex burials. Starting three years ago, Ms. Mastubara has built an association of nearly 600 women—some divorced, some unhappily married, and some determinedly single—who plan to share a common plot curbed out of an ordinary cemetery in the western suburb of Chofu.

Many people, including college students of all ages, spend little time in ______ of physical fitness.

A. across B. short C. actual D. tentatively E. altered F. quick G. correctly H. precise I. potential J. small K. substantial L. honest M. detect N. transformed O. poor "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog," read the title of a famous Peter Steiner cartoon, and nowhere is it truer than Internet dating. The experience is by now familiar: the【C1】______ mate who seemed just your type in a profile turns out to be a disappointment in person. There may be ways, however, to spot a lying person before you find yourself【C2】______ from him or her at a table lit by candles. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison compared the【C3】______ heights, weights, and ages of 78 Internet dating participants to their profiles on four dating websites. They noticed several patterns from people who were less than【C4】______. For example, they were less likely to refer to themselves as "I"; used indirect expressions, like "not boring" instead of "exciting" to describe themselves; and stuck to 【C5】______ descriptions. "People do this because they want to distance themselves from their misleading statements," explained Catalina Toma, an author of the study, in a statement. Using these indications, the researchers【C6】______ identified liars about 65 percent of the time. People lied most frequently about their weight, with women slimming down, on average, by 8.5 pounds, and men by 1.5 pounds. At least half the subjects【C7】______ their height, and nearly 20 percent changed their age. Despite the frequency of lies, volunteers proved【C8】______ at catching them. Fortunately, Toma and the team's research opens up the possibility of a software that could【C9】______ lies for you, though Internet dating participants should be careful what they wish for—nearly everyone in the study lied in some【C10】______way.

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"It seems that she was there at the conference." The sentence means that ______

He is quite worn out from years of hard work. He is not the man ______ he was twenty years ago.

Which of the following clauses explains RESULT?

Hydrogen, which is ______ than oil, is pretty easy to produce and does no harm to the environment.

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