Only recently______to deal with the environmental problems.

They wanted to find out the reason______adolescent crimes are increasing.

______dinner is ready, I' 11 give you a call.

In the opinion of many people, Australia has the best( )in the world.

I support your decision, but I should also make it clear that I am not going to be ______ to it.

The girl______a large amount of money from her parents.

Frank's lessons were too hard for him, and he soon fell______the rest of the class.

Every single thing you are not satisfied with in your life is a result of a bad habit. If you don't have enough money, it's because bad habits kept you from taking action. If you are not as fit as you would like to be, it's because of bad habits that kept you glued to the couch. Would you like to change that? The only thing that separates successes from failures is successful habits. But developing good habits is easier said than done. We find it hard to build good habits because we spend every day floating down the river of life with no oars (桨). So what should we do? Henry Ford said it best, " Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right." Belief is the root of change. The strongest force in human behavior is the need to act in line with our self-identity or our belief of who we are. To change a habit, you must believe that you can actually do it. Often our habits are so conditioned into our being that we move through those patterns without any thought or consciousness as to what we are doing. Interrupting the old patterns creates a space for new ones. A few ways to interrupt your pattern are to shock yourself or say something funny that makes you laugh or interrupt it through some physical action. One woman put a can of dog food next to her fridge to interrupt her pattern every time she reached out for some junk food. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. The goal is to get you out of a preprogrammed way of being by engaging in a behavior that shocks you, so as to change your state and help you move into another pattern.

Many ancient tombs have been stolen by thieves and the treasures inside were lost. ______this is a matter of regret.

Most women in Ghana—the educated and illiterate, the urban and rural, the young and old—work to earn an income in addition to maintaining their roles as housewives and mothers. Their reputation for economic independence, self-reliance , and hard work is well known and well deserved. Most of Ghana's working women are farmers and traders. Only one woman in five, or even fewer, can be classified as simply housewives. Even these women often earn money by sewing or by baking and cooking things to sell. They also maintain vegetable gardens and chicken farms. Indeed, the woman who depends entirely upon her husband for support is looked upon with disfavor. Traditionally the tasks of motherhood have been shared. Mothers and sisters, grandmothers and nieces all helped to raise the children and to carry out daily tasks. As the family grew, older brothers and sisters also helped to care for the younger ones and helped in the home. Now with more children going to school, with more people moving away from their traditional homes, not only must the mother continue her income-producing activities, but she must take on all the heavy, time-consuming housework. Ghana today is looking for new ways to meet the needs of women and their families, such as providing more day care centers, so women can continue to play their multiple roles in the home and in the economy.

I hope you won't mind______you the truth.

My feet were______with cold when I stood in the snow.

Without heat and sunlight, plants on the earth______well.

Once upon a time a poor farmer taking a sack of wheat to the mill did not know what to do when it slipped from his horse and fell【C1】______the road. The sack was too heavy for him to【C2】______, and his only hope was that presently some one would come riding by and【C3】______a hand. It was not long before a rider appeared, but the farmer's heart sank when he【C4】______him, for it was the great man who lived in a castle nearby. The farmer would have dared to ask【C5】______farmer to help, or any poor man who might have come along the road, but he could not beg a【C6】______of so great a man. However, as soon as the great man came up he got【C7】______his horse, saying "I see you've had bad luck, friend. How good it is that I'm here just at the【C8】______time. "Then he took one end of the sack, the farmer the other, and between them they lifted it on the horse. "Sir, " asked the farmer, "how can I pay you?" " Easily enough, " the great man【C9】______. " Whenever you see anyone else in trouble, 【C10】______the same for him. "

Magnificent views over the countryside have often______people to write poems.

Scientists call Newton' s idea______gravitation reaches throughout the universe the law of universal gravitation.

Television has opened windows in everybody's life. Young men will never again go to war as they did in 1914. Millions of people now have seen the effects of a battle. And the result has been a general dislike of war, and perhaps more interest in helping those who suffer from all the terrible things that have been shown on the screen. Television has also changed politics. The most distant areas can now follow state affairs, see and hear the politicians before an election. Better informed, people are more likely to vote, and so to make their opinion count. Unfortunately, television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young. Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world: that TV advertisements lie to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless. They believe that the violence they see is normal and acceptable. All educators agree that the "television generations" are more violent than their parents and grandparents. Also, the young are less patient. Used to TV shows, where everything is quick and interesting, they do not have the patience to read an article without pictures: to read a book that requires thinking: to listen to a teacher who doesn't do funny things like the people on children's programs. And they expect all problems to be solved happily in ten, fifteen, or thirty minutes. That's the time it takes on the screen.

I have never been to New York, but it's the place( ).

In Shanghai, a growing number of foreign-funded banks are looking for local people to fill executive positions(行政主管的岗位)rather than people from their own countries as they did in the past. U. S. -based Citibank(花旗银行)put a job announcement in a local newspaper last week calling for executive trainees . It was part of Citibank's business plan in China to draw local professionals. Demand for personal banking services has been on the rise since China joined the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001. The move does not only happen to Citibank. Many other foreign-funded banks in the city have made similar decisions. The U. K. 's Standard Chartered last year employed over 30 graduates from Chinese universities and colleges as executive trainees. They are expected to take up managerial positions at the bank's Shanghai branch after a two-year training program overseas. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation(HSBC)has announced it will employ more new graduates in China in the coming year. Local people account for over 92 % of the office workers in its Shanghai operation.

Over ten people died and twenty people were______wounded in the train crash.