填空题Most technical professionals want to work on problems that are critical to the success of the firm. They want to know what the firm's ______ are and be given an opportunity to contribute to those goals. (prior)

填空题A pacifist is a person (with) a deeply (hold) belief (in solving) disputes only (via) peaceful means. A. with B. hold C. in solving D. via

填空题Our flight from London to Paris was exactly 5 hours. (take) ______.

填空题The old lady was greatly relieved to find her son coming back from the war safe and sound.(relief) ____________________.

填空题The moat striking feature of such encounters is how rarely they occur. What is ______.

填空题Increasing numbers of people have migrated from the countryside and moved into towns and cities over the (77) . Most are in the Third World, where they are (78) accommodate because facilities are at their most inadequate and meager resources are most stretched. In spite of (79) living conditions, the vast numbers of people moving into cities constitute the biggest (80) ever. While governments can take action to improve the conditions of squatters, the real solution is to (81) the process of urbanization. But to do this governments need to change the ways in which they (82) their development funds on the urban areas. If their priorities (83) , rural productivity could be increased and this would help develop the national economy. In the end, however, the rural population also lacks the (84) that their urban countrymen can exert on governments.A. dreadfulB. hardest toC. elatedD. slow downE. boostF. last two centuriesG. mass migrationH. authorityI. previous centuryJ. marketK. were reversedL. were abandonedM. concentrateN. power

填空题This is the longest flight I have ever taken. By the time we get to Los Angeles, we had flown for 9 hours.A. longestB. have ever takenC. had flownD. for

填空题Business and government leaders also consider the inflation rate to be an important general indicator. Inflation is a period of increased (51) that causes rapid rises in prices. (52) your money buys fewer goods so that you get (53) for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. There is a general rise (54) the price of goods and services. Your money buys less. Sometimes people describe inflation as a (55) when "a dollar is not worth a dollar any- more". Inflation is a problem for all consumers. People who live on a fixed income are hurt the (56) . Retired people, for instance, cannot (57) on an increase in income as prices rise. Elderly people who do not work face serious problems in stretching their incomes to (58) their needs in time of inflation. Retirement income (59) any fixed income usually does not rise as fast as prices. Many retired people must cut their spending to (60) up with rising prices. In many cases they must stop (61) some necessary items, such as food and clothing. Even (62) working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can be a problem. The (63) of living goes up, too. People who work must have even more money to keep up with their standard of living, Just buying the things they need costs more. When incomes do not keep (64) with rising prices, the standard of living goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living as (65) because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes (66) which the rate of change can be determined. A price index measures changes in prices using the price for a (67) year as the base. The base price is set (68) 100, and the other prices are reported as a (69) of the base price. A price index makes (70) possible to compare current prices of typical consumer goods, for example, with prices of the same goods in previous years.

填空题Researchers who refuse to share data with others may (31) others to withhold results from them, (32) a study by health-policy analysts at Harvard Medical School. The study found that young researchers, those who publish (33) , and investigators seeking patents are most likely to be (34) access to biomedical data. It also found that researchers who withhold data gain a (35) for this, and have more difficulty in (36) data from others. The study was (37) by a research team led by sociologist Eric Campbell. The team surveyed 2,366 (38) selected scientists at 117 US medical schools. Overall, 12.5 percent said that they had been denied (39) to other academic investigators' data, (40) article reprints, during the past three years. This (41) with findings by the team and other groups. But by examining the (42) of data withholding, the team identified those experiencing the most (43) . For junior staff (44) , the team found that 13.5 percent were denied access, (45) 5.1 percent of senior re searchers. The (46) between data withholding and researchers' publishing (47) during the (48) three years was (49) : 7.7 percent of those who had published 1-5 articles had had data with held from them, but this rose to 28.9 percent for researchers who had published more than 20. Campbell warns, "Selectively holding back on information from the most (50) researchers could slow down progress in research into the causes and cares of human disease./

填空题The instinctive foundation of the intellectual life is curiosity, which is found among animals in its elementary form. Intelligence demands an alert curiosity, but it must be of a certain kind. The sort that leads village neighbors to try to peer through curtains after dark has not very high value. The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by love of knowledge, but by malice; no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly, most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. (66) You may see this impulse, in a moderately pure form, at work in a cat that has been brought to a strange room and proceeds to smell every corner and every piece of furniture. You will see it also in children, who are passionately interested when a drawer or cupboard, usually closed, is open for their inspection. Animals, machines, thunderstorms, and all forms of manual work arouse the curiosity of children, whose thirst for knowledge puts the most intelligent adult to shame. (67) This is the stage at which people announce that "things are not what they were in my young days." The thing that is not the same as it was in that far-off time is the speaker's curiosity. (68) If curiosity is to be fruitful, it must be associated with a certain technique for the acquisition of knowledge; there must be habits of observation, belief in the possibility of knowledge, patience, and industry. (69) But since our intellectual life is only a part of our activity, and since curiosity is perpetually coming into conflict with other passions, there is need of certain intellectual virtues, such as open-mindedness. We become unreceptive to new truth both from habit and from desire; we find it hard to disbelieve what we have emphatically believed for a number of years and also what ministers to self-esteem or any other fundamental passion. (70) A. And with the death of curiosity, we may reckon that active intelligence, also, has died.B. This impulse grows weaker with advancing years until at last what is unfamiliar inspires only disgust, with no desire for a closer acquaintance.C. Broadly speaking, the higher the order of generality, the greater is the intelligence involved.D. Curiosity properly so-called, on the other hand, is inspired by a genuine love of knowledge.E. Open-mindedness should, therefore, be one of the qualities that education aims at producing.F. These things will develop of themselves, given the original fund of curiosity and the proper intellectual education.