填空题In 2004 and again in 2006, women told pollsters that the concerns that motivated them to decide whether and for whom to vote were centered on nontraditional "Women"s issues". Women are not single-issue voters, either. 1 . In reality, women"s voting patterns indicate quite the opposite. Women are not monolithic in their attitudes about, or votes within, the political system. 2 . In the end, women voters ask themselves two core questions when deciding whom to support for president: "Do I like that person?" and "Is that person like me?" The first question is the classic "living room" test. The second is a more complex inquiry that probes whether women believe a candidate cars about, values, confronts, and feats he same things they do. Party loyalty trumps gender, as indicated by a July 2007 Newsweek survey, which found that 88 percent of men and 85 percent of women say that if their party nominated a woman candidate that they would vote for her if she were qualified for the job. 3 : Only 60 percent of men and 56 percent of women believe that the country is ready for a woman president. With regard to race, voters are less hesitant to vote for a qualified African-American candidate of their party, as 92 percent of whites and 93 percent of nonwhites say that they would endorse such a candidate. 4 : Only 59 percent of white voters and 58 percent of nonwhite voters believe that the country would elect a black president. Whereas the contest for president is the most wide-open in decades, one thing is certain: 5 . A. The media"s focus on the contentious ones makes it seem as if women only care about one issue on Election Day and that it takes special attention to that issue to compel women to vote B. Traditionally, women are thought to gravitate more toward the "SHE" cluster of issues, Social Security, health care, and education, while men are considered more interested in the "WE" issues, war and the economy C. Like gender, fewer voters doubt that the country is ready for an African-American president D. Americans express less enthusiasm, however, about the "female factor", when it comes to how they judge their fellow citizens E. Women, as they have since 1980, will be a majority of the electorate that decides who next occupies the Oval Office F. When it comes to voting, one woman might vote for all Democrats, another might vote straight-ticket Republican, while a third might take the salad-bar approach to decide her vote

填空题In deciding to undertake dangerous pursuits, people usually strive for their maximum personal ability rating, when they are challenged but can be victorious, rather thanmerely surmounting the mediocre.A.usuallyB.whenC.challengedD.surmounting the mediocre

填空题【M1】 Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a recorded fund-raising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in $28 billion —a 9. 4 percent jump from 2005. 【M3】 There were increases across the board, but for usual it was the already wealthy who fared best. 【M4】 Stanford's $ 911 million was the most ever collected by a single university, and rose the possibility of a billion-dollar fund-raising year in the not-too-distant future. 【M5】 "There were a set of ideas and a set of initiatives that the university is undertaking that people wanted to invest," said Martin Shell, Stanford's vice president for development. 【M6】 "This is an unbelievably generous response from unbelievably philanthropic set of alumni, parents, and friends. " 【M7】 Harvard ranked two in fund-raising last year with $ 595 million. 【M8】 National, donations from alumni rose 18. 3 percent from 2005, according to figures released yesterday by the Council for Aid to Education. 【M9】 Alumni donations account about 30 percent of giving to higher education. 【M10】 Giving from other groups, such as corporations and foundations, increased by much small amounts.

填空题 Name of Program ______ for Today 11 Topic Experimenting on Animals Guest Jeff Sachs Percentage of doctors supporting experiments on animals ______ 12 Jeff's idea Whether we experiment on animals or not is a ______ question. 13 We experiment on animals because they are ______ to stop us. It's dangerous to say that we use animals in experiments because they lack our intelligence. Animals have ______. 15

填空题(51)"Humanism" has used to mean too many thing to be a very satisfactory term. (52) Nevertheless, and in the lack of a better word, (53) I shall use it here to explain for the complex of attitudes which this discussion has undertaken to defend. (54) In this sense a humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account of man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry, and animal behavior. (55) He is anyone who believes that will, reason, and purpose are real and significant: that value and justice are aspects of a reality called good and evil and rests upon some foundation other than custom; (56) that consciousness is so far from a mere epiphenomenon that it is the most tremendous of actualities. (57) that the unmeasure, may be significant; or to sum it all up; (58) that those human realities which sometimes seem to exist only in human mind are the perceptions of the mind. (59) He is, in other words, anyone who says that there are more things in heaven and earth than those dreamed of in the positivist philosophy. (60) Originally, to be sure, the term humanist meant simply anyone who thonght the study of ancient literature his chief concern. Obviously it means, as I use it, very much more. (61) But there remains nevertheless a certain connection between the aboriginal meaning and that I am attempting to give it, (62) because those whom I describe as humanists usually recognize that literature and the arts have been pretty consistently "on its side" and (63)because it is often to literature that they turn to renew their faith in the whole class of truths which the modem world has so consistently tended, to dismiss as the mere figments of a wishful thinking imagination. (64) Insofar as this modern world gives less and less attention to its literary past, insofar as it dismisses that past as something outgrow and (65) to be discarded as much as the imperfect technology contemporary with it has been discarded, (66) just to that extent it facilitate the surrender of humanism to technology. (67) The literature is to be found, directly expressed or (68) more often, indirectly implied, the most effective correction to the views now most prevalent among the thinking and unthinking. (69) The great imaginative writers present a picture of human nature and of human life which carries conviction and thus giving the lie to all attempts to reduce man to a mechanism. Novels and poems, and dramas are so persistently concerned with the values which relativism rejects that one might even define literature as the attempt to pass value judgments upon representations of human life, (70) More often than not those of its imaginative persons who fail to achieve power and wealth are more successful than those who do not--by standards which the imaginative writer persuades us to accept as valid.

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填空题 Old people are always saying that the young people are not {{U}}(51) {{/U}} they were. The same comment is {{U}}(52) {{/U}} from generation to generation and it is always {{U}}(53) {{/U}}. It has never been truer than it is today. The young are better educated. They have a lot more money to spend and enjoy {{U}}(54) {{/U}} freedom. They grow up more quickly and are not so {{U}}(55) {{/U}} on their parents. Events which the older generation remember vividly are {{U}}(56) {{/U}} more than past history. This is as it should be. Every new generation is {{U}}(57) {{/U}} from the one that preceded it. Today the difference is very marked indeed. The old always assume that they know best for the simple {{U}}(58) {{/U}} that they have been {{U}}(59) {{/U}} a bit longer. They don't like to feel that their values are being questioned or threatened. And this is precisely what the {{U}}(60) {{/U}} are doing. They are questioning the {{U}}(61) {{/U}} of their elders and disturbing their complacency. They take leave to {{U}}(62) {{/U}} that the older generation has created the best of all possible worlds. What they reject more than {{U}}(63) {{/U}} is conformity. Office hours, for instance, are nothing more than enforced slavery. Wouldn't people work best if they were given complete freedom and {{U}}(64) {{/U}}? And what {{U}}(65) {{/U}} the clothing? Who said that all the men in the world should {{U}}(66) {{/U}} drab grey suits? If we turn our {{U}}(67) {{/U}} to more serious matters, who said that human differences can best be solved through conventional politics or by violent means? Why have the older generation so often used {{U}}(68) {{/U}} to solve their problems? Why are they so unhappy and guilt-ridden in their personal lives, so obsessed with mean ambitions and the desire to amass more and more {{U}}(69) {{/U}} possessions? Can anything be right with the retrace? Haven't the old lost {{U}}(70) {{/U}} with all that is important in life?

填空题Most people who travel long distances complain of jetlag. Jetlag makes business travelers less productive and more prone (51) making mistakes. It is actually caused by (52) of your "body clock"—a small cluster of brain cells that controls the timing of biological (53) .The body clock is designed for a (54) rhythm of daylight and darkness, so that it is thrown out of balance when i (55) daylight and darkness at the "wrong'' times in a new time zone. The (56) of jetlag often persist for days (57) the internal body clock slowly adjusts to the new time zone. Now a new anti-jetlag system is (58) that is based on proven (59) pioneering scientific research. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has (60) a practical strategy to adjust the body clock much sooner to the new time zone (61) controlled exposure to bright light. The time zone shift is easy to accomplish and eliminates (62) of the discomfort of jetlag. A successful time zone shift depends on knowing the exact time to either (63) or avoid bright light. Exposure to light at the wrong time can actually make jetlag worse. The proper schedule (64) light exposure depends a great deal on (65) travel plans. Data on a specific flight itinerary and the individual's sleep (66) are used to produce a Trip Guide with (67) on exactly when to be exposed to bright light. When the Trip Guide calls (68) bright light you should spend time outdoors if possible. If it is dark out-side, or the weather is bad, (69) you are on an aeroplane, you can use a special light device to provide the necessary light (70) for a range of activities such as reading, watching TV or working.

填空题Some rituals of modern domestic living vary little throughout the developed world. One such is the municipal refuse collection, usually once a week, your rubbish bags or the contents of your bin disappear into the bowels of a special lorry and are carted away to the local tip. To economists, this ceremony is peculiar, because in most places it is free. Yes, households pay for the service out of local taxes. (71) Yet the marginal cost of rubbish disposal is not zero at all. The more people throw away, the more rubbish collectors and trucks are needed, and the more the local council has to pay in landfill and tipping fees. (72) But as Don Fullerton and Thomas Kinnaman, two American economists, have found, this seemingly easy application of economic sense to an everyday problem has surprisingly intricate and sometimes disappointing results. In the past few years several American towns and cities have started charging households for generating rubbish. The commonest system is to sell stickers or tags which householders attach to rubbish bags or cans. Only bags with these labels are picked up in the weekly collection. In the paper published last year Fullerton and Kinnaman studied the effects of one such scheme, introduced in July 1992 in Charlottesville, Virginia, a town of about 40,000 people. Residents were charged 80 cents for each sticker. This may sound like the sensible use of market forces. In fact, the authors conclude, the scheme's benefits did not cover the cost of printing stickers, the sticker sellers' commissions, and the wages of the people running the scheme. (73) This is inefficient: compacting is done better by machines at landfill sites than by individuals, however enthusiastically. The weight of rubbish collected in Charlottesville fell by a modest 14%. (74) The one bright spot in all this seems to have been a 15% increase in the weight of materials recycled, suggesting that people chose to recycle free rather than pay to have their refuse carted away. But the fee may have little to do with the growth in recycling, as many citizens were already participating in Charlottesville's voluntary recycling scheme. (75) To discourage dumping, for instance, local councils might have to spend more on catching litterers, or raise fines for littering, or cut the price of legitimate rubbish collection.A. True, the number of bags or cans collected did fall sharply, by 37% between May and September 1992. But rather than buy more tags, people simply crammed more garbage--about 40% more into each container.B. This looks like the most basic of economic misunderstandings: if rubbish disposal is free, people will produce too much rubbish. The obvious economic solution is to make households pay the marginal cost of disposing of their waste. That will give them an incentive to throw out less and recycle more.C. City authorities are now considering a project to teach Government waste collectors the skills, such as what rubbish to collect and how to classify it. If approved, the project will help ease the financial burden of the city's waste treatment.D. It would be foolish to generalize from this one case, but the moral is clear, economic incentives sometimes produce unforeseen responses.E. Less pleasing still, some people resorted to illegal dumping rather than pay to have their rubbish removed. This is hard to measure directly. But the authors, ob-serving that a few households in the sample stopped putting rubbish out, guess that illegal dumping may account for 30%-40% of the reduction in collected rubbish.F. But at the margin the price is zero: the family that fills four bins with rubbish each week pays no more than the elderly couple that fills on