The coalition parties have asked the government to consider using more funds to help support the ailing market.

A. boys always wear black suit or dark blue suit, and also a white shirtB. I want to buy a set of suit and a tieC. because it indicates powerA: Good morning, Tom, what are you doing here?B: Good morning, Betty. Since I'll have a job interview tomorrow,【D1】______A: Congratulations. And have you chosen them?B: Not yet, I don't know what color I should choose. Can you give me some suggestions?A: Of course. Generally, in formal situation,【D2】______B: I'd prefer the black one. And what kind of tie is suitable?A: It's easy to choose. And what color do you like?B: I like red very much.A: Oh, no. Red color is not fit for interview【D3】______How about a lighter color one?B: Okay, it's up to you. I have no idea about it.A: Well, I'll choose this light blue for you.B: That's perfect. Thank you.A: You are welcome.

Dress warmly, ______you'll catch a cold.

A. Could you tell me what I have to do to joinB. That's our minimum joining ageC. would that doLibrarian: Good morning, North College Library. How can I help you?Man: I was wondering if it was possible to join the library.Librarian: Are you a student at North College?Man: No, I'm not, but someone told me it was possible to join, even if I wasn't.Librarian: That's right, it is. Are you over 18?【D1】______Man: Yes, I am.Librarian: That's no problem then.Man:【D2】______?Librarian: Well, you'll need to come in to the library and fill out some forms. You'll also need to bring two passport photos with you. We also need two documents for ID, so a driving license would be fine.Man: I've got that and what else? A credit card?Librarian: No, it needs to have your address on it.Man: Shall I bring a bank statement,【D3】______?Librarian: That'11 be fine.

Directions: em>You are to write in no less than 150 words about the title "NEETS"

You hear this: "No wonder you are fat. All you ever do is eating. " You feel sad, "I skip my breakfast and supper. I run every morning and evening. What else can I do?" Basically you can do nothing. Your genes, not your life habits, determine your weight and your body constantly tries to maintain it. How can obese people become normal or even thin through dieting? Well, dieting can be effective, but the health costs are tremendous. Jules Hirsch, a research physician at Rockefeller University , did a study of eight fat people. They were given a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day. After more than 10 weeks, the subjects lost 45kg on average. But after leaving the hospital, they all regained. The results were surprising: by metabolic measurement, fat people who lost large amounts of weight seemed like they were starving. They had psychiatric problems. They dreamed of food or breaking their diet. They were anxious and depressed: some were suicidal. They hid food in their rooms. Researchers warn that it is possible that weight reduction doesn't result in normal weight, but in an abnormal state resembling that of starved non-obese people. Thin people, however, suffer from the opposite: They have to make a great effort to gain weight. Ethan Sims, of the University of Vermont, got prisoners to volunteer to gain weight. In four to six months, they ate as much as they could. They succeeded in increasing their weight by 20 to 25 percent. But months after the study ended, they were back to normal weight and stayed there. This did not mean that people are completely without hope in controlling their weight. It means that those who tend to be fat will have to constantly battle their genetic inheritance if they want to significantly lower their weight. The findings also provide evidence for something scientists thought was true—each person has a comfortable weight range. The range might be as much as 9kg. Someone might weigh 60-69kg without too much effort. But going above or below the natural weight range is difficult. The body resists by feeling hungry or full and changing the metabolism to push the weight back to the range it seeks.

Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely to be in vain given the price offered.

At the last moment, the basketball player made a clever maneuver that allowed him to score.

For them, defeating this football team is a mere dream that is neither substantial nor practical.

Failure to provide______explanations for his frequent blunders, this young man was fired.

By far the most common difficultly in study is simple failure to get down to regular concentrated work. This difficulty is much greater for those who do not work to a plan and have no regular routine of study. Many students muddle along, doing a bit of this subject or that, as the mood takes them, or letting their set work pile up until the last possible moment. Few students work to a set timetable. They say that if they did construct a timetable for themselves they would not keep to it, or would have to alter it constantly, since they can never predict from one day to the next what their activities will be. There are many who shy away from the self-regimentation of a weekly timetable, and dislike being tied down to a definite program of work. Many able students claim that they work in cycles. When they become interested in a topic they work on it intensively for three or four days at a time. On other days they avoid work completely. It has to be confessed that we do not fully understand the complexities of the motivation to work. Most people over 25 years of age have been used to a work routine, and the majority of really productive workers set aside regular hours for the more important aspects of their work. The " tough-minded" school of workers is usually very contemptuous of the idea that good work can only be done spontaneously, under the influence of inspiration. Those who believe that they need only work and study as the fit takes them have a mistaken belief either in their own talent or in the value of "freedom". Freedom from discipline leads to un-happiness rather than to "self-expression" or "personality development". Our society insists on regular habits, timekeeping and punctuality, and whether we like it or not, if we mean to make our way in society we have to comply with its demands.

Sometimes the messages are conveyed through deliberate "conscious gestures", and other times, our bodies talk without our even knowing it.

Traffic is a perennial problem in Hong Kong. Over the years many suggestions have been【C1】______to ease transport difficulties. These include from constructing wider roads and an underground railway【C2】______to staggering hours for schools to open and close. One official report pressed【C3】______for working hours to be spaced out to relieve congestion at peak periods. In England and other countries this system is called staggering working hours because many business centers use it. It is【C4】______that greater working efficiency can be achieved, employees are happier because they can arrange convenient personal working hours, buses and trains can be dispatched at suitable intervals, and so on. The idea of【C5】______working days follows on from staggering hour. Land in Hong Kong is extremely expensive, yet by and large, offices are empty at weekends and most evenings, too. This appears to be a waste of valuable assets and seems【C6】______in a place noted for its business sense. Naturally, Saturday and Sunday working is not easy. Church-going and family needs can't be【C7】______, but it should be remembered that many already work at【C8】______hours. Nurses, firemen, doctors, pilots, TV stars,【C9】______have to come to grips with the problems. It seems【C10】______to assume that others could do the same. In fact they might find some advantages in having a day or two off during the week.

A. Why don't we eat out?B. I'm going to fix some pork chops.C. I just bought it the day before yesterday. Wayne: What are we going to eat for dinner?Lilia:【D1】______Wayne: I'm afraid the meat is rotten.Lilia: That's strange!【D2】______Wayne: Well, I forgot to put it in the refrigerator.Lilia: Good for you! Now what should we eat?Wayne:【D3】______Lilia: Again? Weren't you just complaining that it's too expensive to eat out?Wayne: Not when you're hungry.

Before the construction of the road, it was prohibitively expensive to transport any furs or fruits across the mountains.

This summer, for the first time, Emory College let freshmen pick their own roommates in an online roommate-selection system that works on the same principles as computer dating. Students, using screen names to hide their identities, posted profiles of themselves detailing, personality attributes, work habits, music and food preferences, and answers to questions like whether they hoped to "do almost everything" with their roommate or "lead separate but compatible lives". Roommate-matching is a summer ritual that plunges college housing offices into the most intimate realm of sleep patterns, cleaning habits, and noise tolerance. Online matching is on the cutting edge. Housing officials at Emory, in Atlanta, say they expect that letting students pick their own roommates will increase the likelihood of compatibility. And there's little risk of hurt feelings if the e-mail exchanges do not lead to a match, since the initial round of contacts is done under screen names. Several studies have shown that roommates have an impact on the attitudes and social behavior of those they live with. And one recent study found that a roommate's academic performance has a small, but statistically significant, effect on the other roommate's grade-point average. Other studies, however, did not find that effect. The business of assigning roommates varies widely across the country. At Davidson College, the housing staff sort every freshman with careful hand-selection. The Davidson philosophy is that roommates should be as similar as possible, while halls should be as diverse as possible. "We had a match that seemed perfect, until we discovered that one was a cattle rancher's son and the other was a vegan(绝对素食者)," said Ms. Kromm. "They should definitely meet, on the same hall. But we didn't want to put them in the same room. " Occasionally, an incoming student asks to be paired with an Asian, or says she might not be able to get along with a Republican. In such cases, Ms. Kromm will remind them that Davidson does not accept roommate preferences based on race, ethnicity, and religion. Davidson's care in matching pays off. "By Christmas last year, we had only four requests for roommate changes out of 480 students. " No one knows whether computer-matching works as well. But at Emory, so far, student reaction seems to be telling something: the online system is overwhelmed with clicks.

We all carry bitter, discomforting memories of deeds done or undone, and words said or unsaid. And we all bear wounds—some slight, some not-so-slight—that have been inflicted upon us by others. The healing balm of forgiveness can soothe a troubled conscience and bring peace to an injured soul, even years after the fact. Of course, it isn't enough to just say "I'm sorry" and "You're forgiven" , while there is indeed great power in those simple words. It is not available to those who are insincere, or who are only looking for a way to control, manipulate or exploit. But when those words are truly felt and sincerely expressed, they can open the door to miracles of the heart and soul—miracles of forgiveness, even at a baseball game.

In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character, became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international. No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B. C. The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete. The exact sequence of events uncertain, but events included boy's gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, horse racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modem Olympic Games. On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive leaves placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory. Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling. After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years, the Games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A. D. They continued for such a long time because people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympics: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caused wars. It was over 1,500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896. Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing courtiers pay their own athletes' expenses. The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun's rays. It is carried by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it burns throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modem conception: the five interlocking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games. In ancient Greece, the Olympic Games ______.

There are still many problems ahead of us

A recent U. S. study claims that in areas where there are fewer single men, women are more career focused because there are less options for marrying. Increasingly, women have been delaying starting a family in order to nurture their careers. But a recent study asks if this phenomenon might just be on account of a lack of marriageable men. The study, published in the journal of Personality and Social Psychology, looks at the ratios of single men versus single women in various U. S. states and on college campuses. When stores of single men are low, or are perceived to be low, women showed higher levels of motivation to pursue high-paying careers. The researchers conclude that it's not necessarily ambition that drives a woman to single-mind-edly pursue her career—it's merely because there isn't a potential husband in sight.The researchers also note that women who perceive themselves to be less desirable as mates— "those women who are not like Angelina Jolie", as Durante, a professor from the University of Minnesota, puts it, are more likely to immerse themselves in their careers. What do you think? Are careers merely a fall-back option for women who aren't able to marry and have children right away? Comment 1 : For all women, is a career just something to pass the time and fill lonely, otherwise meaningless hours? What about lesbians(女同性恋者)and women who are not particularly interested in marrying or ever having children? Comment 2 : I think this article is offensive, that's what I think. What if I published an article saying women delay getting married because most men are jerks? What do you say? Comment 3: But the issue is not that simple. If less single men are available as husbands, there will be more single women who need to get on with their lives. At the same time not all single women want to put up with husbands and they do not have to do so if they don't want to. Comment 4: Universities and colleges have spent the last 25 years trying to shut men out and make higher education female friendly through affirmative action programs. Well, they got what they wanted and now most universities have 60% to 70% women. Obviously, it will be more difficult for women to find male marriage. Comment 5: What if I told you the truth and said most women are now either lesbians, feminists, complaining, insane, or all around just not worth committing to? Back in my day when I got married it was worth getting married. Nowadays, why get stuck to one woman who isn't worth?