International Monetary Fund
Perhaps we should think in terms of raising interest rates ______ them, in consideration of the new reports about inflation reported last June.
亏损企业
______ I like economics, I like sociology much better.
联合国大会
The Chairman was evidently ______ by Jim's words and glared at him for a few seconds.
Although he suffered from discrimination, Martin Luther King is a man who believed in reconciliation and only rarely ______ a grudge during his Civil Rights movement.
I'm afraid the result of the coming election is a ______ conclusion.
I had never seen so many people with so many disabilities. I returned home, silently ______. thinking how fortunate we really were.
裸婚
One model is a high-fashion show wore a hat so ______ that it had to be supported with four poles carried by four attendants.
Children and old people do not like having their daily ______ upset.
自动飞行系统
Thousands of people turned out into the streets to ______ against the local authorities' decision to build a highway across the field.
As he took his foot off the clutch the ear ______ forward and the passenger was almost thrown through the windscreen.
过去的一年，在各国政府和人民的热情关心和大力支持下，中外双方齐心协力，开拓创新，全球孔子学院取得可喜成绩：
一是稳步发展，势头良好。今年新增孔子学院40所、中小学孔子课堂97个。目前已在96个国家和地区建立了322所孔子学院和369个孔子课堂。注册学员比去年增加了56%，达到36万人。网络孔子学院开通9个语种，注册用户达10万人。这些努力为所在国民众学习汉语拓宽了渠道。
二是教师素质不断提升。专兼职教师净增1000人，达到4000人，其中中外双方各占一半。有3000人参加了总部实施的培训计划，总部还为各国孔子学院提供2000个奖学金名额，培养本土教师，促进了中外院长和教师业务素质的提升。
三是教材创编实现新进展。编写出版了45个语种的9套汉语教材和工具书，向各国孔子学院赠送图书40多万册，目前104所孔子学院编写出版了77种本土汉语教材，缓解了教材匮乏问题。2500名外国中小学教师来华接受教材培训，推动了所在地区的汉语教学。
四是品牌活动形成新声势。今年，300名校长、2000多名院长和教师应邀参观上海世博会，亲身感受了世界多元文化的交相辉映。部分亚洲国家孔子学院的大学校长还参观了广州亚运会。
Swan song
It is not uncommon for there ______ problems of communication between the old and the young.
毒品贩运
When Adolph Ochs became the publisher of The New York Times, he endowed the paper with a uniquely ______ tone, avoiding the ______ editorials that characterized other major papers of the time.