The United States is a country made up of many different races. Usually they are mixed together and can't be told from one another. But many of them still talk about where their ancestors came from. It is something they are proud of. The original Americans, of course were the Indians. The so-called white men who then came were mostly from England. But many came from other countries like Germany and France. One problem the United States has always had is discrimination. As new groups came to the United States they found they were discriminated against. First it was the Irish and Italians. Later it was the blacks. Almost every group has been able to finally escape this discrimination. The only immigrants who have not are the blacks. Surprisingly enough the worst discrimination today is shown towards the Indians. One reason the Indians are discriminated against is that they have tried so hard to keep their identity. Of course they are not the only ones who have done so. The Japanese have their Little Tokyo in Los Angeles and the Chinese a Chinatown in New York. The Dutch settlement in Pennsylvania also stays separate from other people. Their towns are like something from the 19th century. They have a different reason from the other groups for staying separately. They live separately for religious reasons rather than keep together in a racial group. Although some groups have kept themselves separate and others have been discriminated against, all groups have helped make the United States a great county. There is no group that has not helped in some way. And there is no group that can say they have done the most to make it a great country. Many people still come from other countries to help the United States grow. A good example is the American project that let a man walk on the moon. It was a scientist from Germany who was most responsible for doing that. It is certain that in the future the United States will still need the help of people from all racial groups to remain a great country.

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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases【C1】______ the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant【C2】______ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C3】______ and will strictly control the amount of【C4】______ that can be given to a case before a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he【C5】______ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not offer sufficient control. 【C6】______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the 【C7】______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【C8】______ to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【C9】______ the European Convention on Human Rights legally【C10】______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was entitled to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

I'll contact my office in London straight away and________to you.

The coach explained the regulations at length to make sure that none of his players would become violators.

Lighting levels are carefully controlled to fall within an acceptable level for optimal reading convenience.

Complete silence is found only in laboratories called anechoic rooms. The walls and ceilings, made of blocks of special sound-sucking materials, are more than three feet thick, while floor coverings are six-foot layers of feathers or cotton wool. Silence here can be as painful to the ears as the din(continuous loud noise)of a steelworks or a rocket blast-off, yet scientists get used to this and stay in these silent rooms for hours at a time, using microphones and electronic equipment to test the various materials being developed to make the world a less noisy place. Architects have used scientific discoveries to solve noise problems in a number of ways. Walls are hollowed(having empty space inside)and then filled with sound-sucking materials similar to cotton wool. Extra-thick carpets cover the floors, and thick woolen curtains cover the windows. Air conditioning and heating channels are made less noisy by sound-sucking materials. Unfortunately, these techniques and others often work too well in some buildings. Noise-proof rooms become almost anechoic and people living in them are disturbed by the lack of sound. One way of handling this problem is to use what they call " sound perfume" — artificial(similarly produced, made by man)noise is piped to rooms through small loudspeakers.

In order to repair barns, build fences, grow crops, and care for animals, a farmer must indeed be______.

The person he interviewed was______his former schoolmate.

Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U. S. , when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.

The man dived into the river to help, irrespective of his own danger.

One, Two, Three. Cheers! A toast with coffee and a lion dance, a【C1】______of cultures, US coffee giant Starbucks thinks【C2】______will be the right blend for its business in China. "I believe strongly that China is going to be the second largest market in the world for Starbucks. And we are just getting【C3】______" "Hello, welcome to Starbucks. " Starbucks has already been in China for over a decade. But with financial troubles emerging back home, Starbucks chief Howard Schultz has come here, rallying(重新召集, 激励)employees and decorating stores, hoping to【C4】______the steaming Chinese【C5】______"We've got 900 stores in the UK, 800 stores in Japan. China clearly is gonna have thousands of stores. " "But this is a【C6】______drinking culture. " "Well, it is. And 10 years ago, people said when Starbucks【C7】______China, they were not gonna succeed because everyone drank tea. That's not exactly what's taking place. What's happened is we've opened up Starbucks in China. The Chinese【C8】______has embraced(接受, 拥护)Starbucks, is drinking tons of coffee.【C9】______we are also offering tea. " Tea and other【C10】______treats have helped boost sales here.

It is reported that the worst pedestrian jam in this city occurs around this crossroads.

The differences between men and women clarify why they have different expectations about communication in marriage. For women, talk【C1】______ intimacy. Marriage is an orgy (狂欢) of【C2】______ : you can tell your feelings and thoughts, and still be loved. Women's greatest fear is being pushed away. But men live in a hierarchical world, where talk maintains independence and statue. They are on【C3】______ to protect themselves from being put down and pushed around. This【C4】______ the paradox of the talkative man who said of his silent wife, "She's the talker." In public settings, he feels challenged to show his intelligence and display his understanding. But at home, where he has【C5】______ to prove and no one to defend against, he is free to remain Silent. For his wife, being home means she is free from the worry that something she says might【C6】______ someone, or spark disagreement, or appear to be showing off; at home she is【C7】______ to talk. The communication【C8】______ that endanger marriage can't be fixed by mechanical engineering. They require a new conceptual framework about the role of talk in human relationships. Many of the psychological explanations may not be【C9】______ , because they tend to blame either women (for not being assertive enough) or men (for not being in touch with their feelings). A sociolinguistic approach in【C10】______ male-female conversation is seen as cross-cultural communication allows us to understand the problem and forge solutions without blaming either party.

This problem should be discussed first, for it takes________over all the other issues.

A trip to the Antarctic is reasonably safe if you take the necessary precautions.

The problem is that they are unable to communicate effectively in the language ______ public services are offered.

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In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which they would then casually toss overboard when done. That was OK, because the leaves decayed and the fish ate them all. But in the past decade, he said, plastic wrap had rapidly replaced banana leaves, so the beach was edged with a crust of plastic. This is a worldwide problem—we can't point the finger at Thai fishermen. The UK alone produces more than 170m tons of waste every year, much of it food packaging. Now we live in an absurd age where a packet of cookies can have seven layers of wrapping. While it has revolutionized the way we store and consume food, there is now so much of it that landfills(垃圾填埋场)can't cope. Some of it is poisonous, and some of it never degrades. It can take 450 years for some types of plastic bottle to break down. Indeed, as Rachelle Strauss of the UK's ZeroWasteWeek says, we never actually throw anything "away" —it's really just put somewhere else. It's easy to say despair at the scale of handing the plastic wrap, but it isn't beyond humanity to solve it—look at how the world took action on CFCs(含氯氟烃): there are signs that the hole in the ozone layer is now closing. Food packaging ought to be a doddle. Comment 1 While as an individual I can do my best to avoid excessive packaging, it is really only government regulation that can force corporation to change their practices. Comment 2 I never understand why supermarket chains insist on covering products such as bananas and cucumbers in plastic wrap. Why? They have their own packaging—the skin or peel! Comment 3 I love packaging—if it's well designed of course. It helps us be more hygienic and practical. The solution to these packaging necessities is clearly to encourage the use of bio-degradable packaging. Comment 4 Before, everything we threw out was bio-degradable and now it's not. Guess it's hard to change that behavior overnight.