与国际接轨

A ______ is a growth of feathers, fur or skin along the top of the heads of some animals, especially birds.

人类文明的摇篮

A middle-aged woman of tremendous ______ sat down beside the other patients in the waiting room.

Passage Four Self-reliance is a nineteenth-century term, popularized by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay of that time, but it still comes easily to the tongues of many of those to whom we talked. Self-reliance of one sort or another is common to every one of the traditions we have discussed. What, if not self-reliant, were the Puritans, many of whom, like John Winthrop, left wealth and comfort to set out in small ships on a dangerous 'errand into the wilderness'? They felt called by God, but they had to rely on themselves. Thomas Jefferson chose in his draft of The Declaration of Independenceto strike a note of self-reliance-when he said that emigration and settlement here 'were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain,' conveniently forgetting how recently the British had defended the colonists against the French and Indians, but expressing a genuinely American attitude. The note of self-reliance had a clearly collective context in the biblical and republican traditions. It was that as a people we had acted independently and self-reliantly. With utilitarian and expressive individualism, however, the collective note became muted. The focus of the self-made printer or the poet who sang of himself was more exclusively on the individual. Emerson in his 1841 essay 'Self-Reliance' even declared the individual and society to be in opposition. 'Society,' he said, 'is everywhere in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. ' Emerson was speaking to the world of the independent citizen and insisting that the conformity exacted by small-town America was too coercive. His friend Thoreau would push this teaching to an extreme in his classic experiment at Walden Pond. But in his essay, Emerson also expressed a more prosaic sense of self-reliance, one that has been the common coin of moral life for millions of Americans ever since. Emerson says we only deserve the property we work for. Conversely, our primary economic obligation is only to ourselves. 'Then again, do not tell me, as a good man did to day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?' he wrote. We found self-reliance common as a general orientation in many of those to whom we smoke. Therapist Margaret Oldham typically expressed it as 'taking responsibility for oneself.' But economic self-reliance is often seen as the bedrock on which the more general character trait rests. Asked why he worked so hard to support his wife and child after he first got married, corporate executive Brian Palmer said, 'I guess self-reliance is one of the characteristics I have pretty high up in my value system.' As a young husband and father, Brian felt 'confronted with the stark realities of being self-supporting or dropping out of the human race.' Some critics have seen the 'work ethic' in decline in the United States and a 'narcissistic' concern with the self emerging in its place. In our conversations, we have found that an emphasis on hard work and self-support can go hand in hand with an isolating preoccupation with the self, as Toequeville feared would be the case. Indeed, work continues to be critically important in the self-identity of Americans, closely linked to the demand for self-reliance. The problem is not so much the presence or absence of a 'work ethic' as the meaning of work and the ways it links, or fails to link, individuals to one another. Please answer the following questions based on the above passage:

免疫系统紊乱

Paul was lying on the lawn, his hands ______ under his head.

The hidden room is ______ only through a secret back entrance.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: 'A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.' Surely we ought to hold fast to our life. For it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more. We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. Hold last to life—but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this truth dawns upon us. At every stage of life we sustain losses—and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter. We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual waning of our own strength. And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be. [Note]原文作者是美国犹太人联合会主席John Boynton Priestley，有删节。 [Key words] rabbis：(rabbi的复数)犹太教经师，音译“拉比” parable：譬喻，寓言

A magazine is publishing a series of articles on 'Modern Life'. Readers have been asked to contribute. You write an article about 400 words on clothes and fashions of young people today, and explain how their meanings are determined by social and cultural factors.

Researchers discovered that plants infected with a virus give off a gas that ______ disease resistance in neighboring plants.

As a candidate for the Master's Degree program in translation, what do you think a professional translator should be equipped with in order to bridge languages and cultures in your future career? Write down your thoughts in an essay of about 400 words. Supply a title for your essay. Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.

In Hong Kong's huge Ocean Terminal shopping complex Prudential has opened a shop alongside ______ fashion brands such as Prada and Ralph Lauren.

Certified Public Accountant

At first she accused me of being a political fanatic, but she soon came round to ______ that my ideas were not so ridiculous as she had supposed.

出风头

International Atomic Energy Agency

She waited at the gate, her hands ______ before her.

Are we going to see an end to the Arab-Israeli ______?

stunt man