The ______ outcome of the contest varies from moment to moment.

The other day an acquaintance of mine, a gregarious and charming man

President Roosevelt's administration suffered a devastating defeat when, on January 6, 1936, the Agricultural Adjustment Act was declared unconstitutional. New Deal planners quickly pushed through Congress the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1935, one purpose of which was conservation, but which also aimed at controlling surpluses by retiring land from production. The law was intended as a stopgap measure until the administration could formulate a permanent farm program that would satisfy the nation's farmers as well as Supreme Court. Roosevelt's landslide victory over London in 1936 obscured the ambivalent nature of his support in the farm states. Despite extensive government propaganda, many farmers still refused to participate in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's voluntary production control programs, and the burdensome surpluses of 1933 were gone—not the result of the AAA, but a consequence of great droughts. In February of 1937, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace convened a meeting of farm leaders to promote the concept of the ever-normal granary, a policy which would encourage farmers to store crop surpluses (rather than dump them on the market) until years of small harvests. The Commodity Credit Corporation would grant loans to be repaid when the grain was later sold for a reasonable profit. The conference chose a Committee of Eighteen which drafted a bill, but the major farm organizations were divided. Since ten of the Eighteen members were also members of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the measure was quickly labeled a Farm Bureau bill, and there were protests from the small, but highly vocal, Farmer's Holiday Association. When debate on the bill began, Roosevelt himself was vague and elusive and didn't move the proposed legislation into the "desirable" category until midsummer. In addition, there were demands that the New Deal's deficit spending be curtailed, and opponents of the bill charged that the AAA was wasteful and primarily benefited corporations and large-scale farmers. The soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act had failed to limit agricultural production as the administration had hoped. Farm prices were high and so was consumer demand. Many farmers, convinced that the drought had ended the need for crop controls, refused to participate in the AAA's soil conservation program. Without direct crop controls, agricultural production skyrocketed in 1937, and by late summer, there was panic in the farm belt that prices would again be driven down to disastrously low levels. Congressmen began to pressure Roosevelt made such loans contingent upon the willingness of Congress to support the administration's plan for a new system of crop controls. When the price of cotton began to drop, Roosevelt's adroit political maneuver finally forced Congressional representative from the South to agree to support a bill providing for crop controls and the ever-normal granary. The following year Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. The primary purpose of the passage is to ______.

《诗经》是我国最早的诗歌总集，通常说的诗经“六艺”是指：风、雅、颂、赋、________、________。

We will be losing money this year unless that new economic plan of yours ______ miracle.

This is the only thing ______ I can do now.

______, she led a life of complete seclusion.

To help students understand how we see

For the executive producer of a network nightly news programme, the workday often begins at midnight as mine did during seven years with ABC's evening newscast. The first order of business was a call to the assignment desk for a pre-bedtime rundown of latest developments. The assignment desk operates 24 hours a day, staffed by editors who move crews, correspondents and equipment to the scene of events. Assignment-desk editors are logistics experts. They have to know plane schedules, satellite availability, and whom to get in touch with at local stations and overseas broadcasting systems. They are required to assess stories as they break on the wire services—sometimes even before they do—and to decide how much effort to make to cover those stories. When the United States was going to appeal to arms embargo against Iraq, the number of correspondents and crews was constantly evaluated. Based on reports from the field and also upon the skilled judgments of desk editors in New York City, the right number of personnel was kept on the alert. The rest were allowed to continue working throughout the world, in America and Iraq ready to move but not tied down by false alarms. The studio staff of ABC's "World News Tonight" assembles at 9:00 a.m. to prepare for the 6:30 p. m. "air" deadline. Overnight dispatches from outlying bureaus and press services are ready. There are phone conversations with the broadcast's staff producers in domestic bureaus and with the London bureau senior producer, who coordinates overseas coverage. A pattern emerges for the day's news, a pattern outlined in the executive producer's first lineup. The lineup tells the staff what stories are scheduled; what the priorities are for processing film of editing tape; what scripts need to be written; what commercials are scheduled; how long stories should run and in what order. Without a lineup, there would be chaos. Each story's relative value in dollars and cents must be continually assessed by the executive producer. Cutting back satellite booking to save money might mean that an explanation delivered by an anchor person will replace actual photos of an event. A decline in live coverage could send viewers away and drive ratings down, but there is not enough money to do everything. So decisions must be made and be made rapidly because delay can mean a missed connection for shipping tape or access to a satellite blocked by a competitor. The broadcasts themselves require pacing and style. The audience has to be allowed to breathe between periods of intense excitement. A vivid pictorial report followed by less exacting materials allows the viewer to reflect on information that has just flashed by. Frequent switches from one anchor to another or from one film or tape report to another create a sense of forward movement. Ideally, leading and lags to stories are worked out with field correspondents, enabling them to fit their reports into the programme's narrative flow so the audience's attention does not wander and more substance is absorbed. Scripts are constantly rewritten to blend well with incoming pictures. Good copy is crisp, informative. Our rule: the fewer words the better. If a picture can do the work, let it. What does the word "rundown" (the underlined one in Para. 1)possibly mean?

The search for latent prints is done in a systematic and intelligent manner

Despite his wealth and position

We'd better wait till 20 November

The tenant mush be prepared to decorate the house ______ the terms of the contract.

The airplane's aft section arrived early Monday morning

Women are bad drivers, Saddam plotted 9/11, Obama was not born in America

Not only I but also Tom and Mary ______ fond of watching television.

During the early years of this century

This missile is designed so that once ______ nothing can be done to retrieve it.

As with many a grown-up sporting star

Many years had ______ before they returned to their original urban areas.