Catherine's mother was ______ ill last summer, but fortunately, she was making a slow but steady recovery after an operation was done on her hung.

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He was so ______ in the TV program that he forgot to turn the oven off.

A fable is a didactic tale focus on a single character trail.

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The very biggest and most murderous wars during the industrial age were intra-industrial wars that ______ Second Wave nations like Germany and Britain against one another.

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One important outcome of the work on the expression of genes in developing embryos is sure to be knowledge that can help preventing birth defects. Just as promising 1. ______ is the possibility of unravel the complicated wiring 2. ______ of the brain. A mechanic gets valuable insight how an 3. ______ automobile works by rebuilding car engines; similarly, neuroscientist can learn how the brain functions from 4. ______ the way it is put together. The next step pursuing the 5. ______ goal is to find out how the blueprint genes, the homeobox genes, control the expression of other genes that create the valves and pistons of the working cerebral engine. The protein encoded by the later genes could change the 6. ______ stickiness of the cell surface, the shape of the cell or its metabolism to create the characteristics peculiar to, say, neurons or neural-crest cells. Surface proteins may be the mechanism, whereby similar programmed cells stick 7. ______ together to form specific structures; they might also sense the local environment to help the cell decide what is to do. 8. ______ Clarifying those mechanisms will engage the best talents in embryology and molecular biology for some times to come. 9. ______ What is perhaps the most intriguing question of all is if the 10. ______ brain is powerful enough to solve the puzzle of its own creation.

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The research committee urged the archaeologist to ______ her claim that the tomb she has discovered was that of Alexander the Great, since her initial report has been based only on ______.

The author took a ______ approach to the topiC. He presented both sides of the issue evenhandedly and did not let his own feelings intrude.

All was confusion around him; ______ he remained calm and unruffled.

Do you know Tim's brother? He is ______ than Tim.

Despite a tendency to be overtly ______, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.

Although specific concerns may determine the intent of a research project, its results are often ______.

You had the ______ situation in which Luxembourg had more listed public bathing beaches than the whole of the United Kingdom.

减员增效

The increase in leisure time, the higher standard of living, the availability of cars to a wider range of the population and, perhaps, a broadening of personal horizons have all contributed to a drastic change in the summer week-end habits of the British public. Now, on most Saturdays in the months loosely called summer, it is possible to see family saloons loaded with picnics and crammed to bursting with several generations of pleasure-bent Smiths'. Like competitors in some grossly disorganized rally, they nose their way through the neat drab streets of council estates, converging on the main roads, then crawl as best they can out into the open country and towards the coast. Congestion and the frustration of wasting precious time at the receiving end of someone else's exhaust fumes gets the pursuit of enjoyment off to bad start; tempersbecome frayed. Children, traditionally the target for fathers'ill-humor, are singled out for special treatment. The past week's misdeeds are unearthed and magnified out of all reasonable proportion; mothers leap to their broods' defense and, before long, vows that never again will this outing be repeated are being hurled back and forth. Of course, by this time, the children have wisely extracted themselves from the argument and are quietly amusing themselves by looking at their irate elders or gaping at the unfamiliar sight of animals in fields, often so much stranger to them than the corresponding naked shapes they are wont to see in butchers' windows. Eventually, tempers partially restored, the sea is in sight. The paraphernalia of enjoyment is set up on teeming beach, sand mysteriously appears in every sandwich, pale industrial legs are exposed in self-conscious nakedness. The children drift away, quite capable of finding enough magic in this exciting, watery world to occupy them fully until they are gathered in again. Fathers and mothers, and quite possibly some members of a previous generation, settle back to receive the sun and dream away the tensions brought to a climax by the journey. Fathers eye with furtive lustfulness and mothers glare with disapproval and envy as the shapely matrons of tomorrow splash and play and race coquettishly around them, spraying water and sand and disturbing any hopes of peace. At length the shadows drop and chill in the air brings an end to the idyll. The lobster skin is painfully covered up and the day's debris half-heartedly collected. The family is rounded up and the brief dreams trodden into the sand along with the wasted paper.

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