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Passage 1

And with this prize that I have received as a Prize of

Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many

people who have home. Because I believe that love begins (1)_____ at home, but if we can create a home for the poor I think (2)_____ that more and more love will be spread. And we will be (3)______ able through this understanding love to bring peace and

the good news to the poor. The poor in our own family

first, in our country and the world. To be able to do this, (4)______ our sisters, our lives have to be woven with prayer. They

have to be woven with Christ to be able to understanding, (5)_____ to be able to share. Because to be woven with Christ are to (6)__

be able to understand, to be able to share. Because today

there is so much sufferings… When I pick up a person (7)____ from the street, hungry, I gave him a plate of rice ,a piece (8)____ of bread, I have satisfied, I have removed that hunger.

But a person who is shutted out, who feels unwanted, (9)_____ unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out

from society---that poverty is so full with hurt and so (10)____ unbearable… And so let us always meet each other with a

smile, for the smile is the beginning of love , and once we

begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

Passage 2

In the last decades of his career, Mr. Wayne

became something like an American folk figure, hero to(1)_____ some, villain to others, for his outspeaking views. He was(2)____ politically conservative and ,although he scorned politics

as a way of life foe himself, he enthusiastically supported

Richard M. Nixon, Barry Goldwater , Spiro T. Agnew,

Ronald Reagan and others who, he felt, fought for

his concept of Americanism and anti—Communism.

But it was for millions of moviegoers who saw him

only on the big screen where John Wayne really existed. (3)______ He had not created the western with its clear—cut conflict between good and bad, right and wrong ,but it was

possible to mention the word ―western‖ without thinking（4）_____ of ―the Duke,‖ as he was called.

It was rarely a simple matter to find an unanimous (5)______ opinion on Mr. Wayne , whether it had to do with his

acting or his politics . Film critics wee lavish in prize of (6)______ him in some roles and shrugged wearily as they candled his

less notable efforts: one critic, apparently overexposed to westerns, angered him by commenting, ―It never

Waynes ,but it pulls.‖ Mr. Wayne was c o-director and (7)______ star of ―The Green Berets‖, a 1968 film what supported (8)______ the United States action in Vietnam. The movie was

assailed by many major critics on all ground, political and (9)______ aesthetic, but the public apparently did not mind :in only

six months,it had earned $1million over its production (10)______ cost of $7million.

Passage 3

The hunter-gather tribes that today live as our (1)____ prehistoric human ancestors consume primarily a vegetable

diet supplementing with animal foods. An analysis of 58 (2)___ societies of modern hunter-gathers, including the Kung of southern Africa, revealed that one –half emphasize

gathering plant foods, one-third concentrate on fishing,

and only one-six are primarily hunters. Overall, two-

thirds and more of the hunter-gatherer’s calories come (3)_____ from plants. Detailed studies of the Kung by the food

scientists at the University of Longdon, showed that

gathering is a more productive source of food than is

hunting. An hour of hunting yields in average about 100 (4)_____ edible calories, as an hour of gathering produces 240. (5)_____ Plant foods provide for 60 percent to 80 percent of the(6)___ Kung diet , and no one goes hungry when the hunt fails. Interestingly, if they escape fatal infections or accidents,

these contemporary aborigines live to old ages despite of(7)_____ the absence of medical care. They experience no obesity,

and no middle-aged spread, little dental decay, no high

blood pressure, no heart disease, and their blood

cholesterol levels are very low(about half of the (8)_____ average American adult). If no one is suggesting that we(9)_____ return to an aboriginal life style, we certainly could use

their eating habits as a model for healthier diet. (10)_____

Passage 4

His entrance into films was as accidental as any made

by a young fellow who grew up near the Hollywood barren

land. And the Wayne saga actually started much farther(1)____ east, in the small town of Winterset, Iowa, when he was(2)_____ born on May 26,1907,and was named Marion Michael Morrison. His father ,Clyde L. Morrison, had a

drugstore, but when Marion was 6 years old, his father ,

because of ill health, moved the family to South California (3)_____ and became a farm owner with an 80-acre farm. Not long

after, the family settled in Glendale, where Mr. Morrison

again went and opened up a pharmacy. His store was in(4)_____ the same building as a theater, and young Marion,

who raised at 4 A.M. to deliver newspapers and then, (5)_____ after school and football practice, delivered orders from

the store, went to the movies four and five times a week, (6)_____ free.

Even earlier, when he was 7,he had learned about

horses and played cowboy. In Glendale, he saw movies

being made at the Triangle Studios, where they often

shotted outdoor scenes. The link between horses and (7)_____ camera was yet to be forged, but the influences were there

from the beginning .Along the way he had acquired the namesake ―Duke‖. It came from a dog, an Airedale terrier(8)_____ he had had, he used to say as he ridiculously press releases(9)_____ that tried to explain the nickname as some sort of rubbing-(10)_____ off nobility.

Passage 5

The chairman of the Samsung Group, Lee Kun-hee,

has been accused of invading taxes on billions of dollars (1)____ that he hid in stock accounts under the names of his aids, (2)____

a special prosecutor announced on Thursday.

Mr. Lee also faces criminal charges of breach of

trust, that stemmed from something he had denied for (3)____ years: his involvement in arranging Samsung subsidiaries (4)____ to sell stocks to his son ,Jae Yong, at fairly low prices to (5)____ help the son take over management control of the business Empire.

Nine other Samsung executives faced with similar (6)____ charges . None were arrested. But the charges dealt a

further blow to the image of Samsung and Mr. Lee’s

family, which South Koreans both admire for building the corporation into their best-known global brand and hate

for the recurring corruption scandals there.

Mr. Cho accused Mr. Lee and his aides of committing a

―grave crime ― but said that he decided to arrest them, in (7)____

part because they admitted wrong doing and because their

arrest would seriously throw into confusion and disorder

the management of Samsung, which accounts on one-fifth (8)____

of the country’ exports, and would danger the national (9)____

economy.

An executive in the corporation’s strategic planning

office , Lee Soon-dong, said in a statement: ―Samsung

would like to apologize for causing concerns. Taking this

Special prosecution investigation as a new staring point,

Samsung is preparing reform plans, basis on advice form (10)____

various sectors of our society.‖

Passage 6

In recent months, a lot of people have been handed

financial get-out-of-jail-free cards. C.E.O.s who presided 1.

billions in losses have walked away with tens of millions in

compensation. But there’s one group for whose 2.

forgiveness has not been forthcoming: ordinary consumers

struggling with piles of credit-card debt. For them,

escaping the burden of their bad decisions and their bad

luck have become much harder. 3.

That’s because of a law that Congress passed in 2005

which has made more difficult for people to write off their 4.

debts. Filing for bankruptcy has become much less 5.

expensive. More important, as lower-income people can 6. still declare Chapter 7, which takes away your assets but

then discharges your debts, most middle and higher

income people now have to declare Chapter 13. That

means they have to pay their creditors monthly for five

years bef ore they’re free.

Historically, the U.S. has treated debtors leniently.

But the credit-card industry, which was the driven force 7. behind the new law, insisted that tolerance had caused a bankruptcy‖crisis‖. Irresponsible debtors were b uying

plasma TVs and fancy vacations and then declaring

bankruptcy to escape their debts. But they are being 8. supported by the rest of us, who had to pay high interest 9. rates and fees in our credit cards to cover credit-card

company’s billions in annual write-offs. 10.

Passage 7

Retailers are undeniably good in the tricks of their 1. trade. So why has retailing gotten so hard? In pard, it’s

because of imitation: when one store hits on a useful

gimmick, competitions copy it. But it’s the Internet that’s 2. mad the biggest differences, although not in the ways 3. we often think. People once believed that the Net was

going to transform what we shopped—that it was going to 4. make physical stores obsolete. It hasn’t. Even today,

online sales are roughly three per cent of total retail

sales in the U.S. What it has changed is when we shop, 5.

for a simple reason: it has created informed shoppers. In

the past, retailers could make profits from what

economists call ―information asymmetry‖-lack of balance

concerned information: sellers knew much more about 6. prices, quality,and value than consumers do, in large part 7. because good information for consumers was either hard to

obtain or just not available at all. Today, it’s easy to

research and comparison-shop, and most consumers do it

for at least some of their purchases.a recent study by

Accenture found that two-third of those surveyed 8. compared products online; a similar study, by the

Consumer Electronics Association and Yahoo, found that

more than three-quarters of electronics purchases are

researched online but actually occurred in conventional 9. stores. And the amount of time people are spending in 10. their research is for form trivial: fifteen hours for

televisions, twelve for digital cameras, and so on.

Passage 8

For decades, The Times has not only been a 1. newspaper, but a premier research tool, available in

virtually every library around the country through The

Times Index, which dated back to 1851. 2.

Topic pages extend that rich tradition into the

Internet age, offering archive material on more than 14,000 3. subjects. Each topic page collects all the news, reference

and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and

video files published on topics ranges from Madonna to 4. Burma. This treasure trove is available with charge on 5. articles going back to 1981.

On a smaller number of pages, a deeper level of

material has been added: short introduction essays, 6. selections of highlights from the Archives and topic

Navigators to help readers finding their way to the best 7. available online resources. These include documents

selected by The Times's research department, alone with 8. recommended websites and blogs and selected articles

from other publications. A growing number of pages also

include book lists, with links to Times book reviewings. 9.

You can find Topic pages in a number of ways: by

clicking on hyperlinked terms within articles; through the

alphabet index at the top of this page; by using the 10. website search bar, or through special links placed on the

home page or in an inset box on the left of an article page.

Passage 9

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about 1._____ science, but I would say that there are not 5 percent of the

people whose quipped with school, including college, to

understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of

science as people with comparable education in Western 2. Europe. There are a lot of kids who know everything

about computers—how to build them, how to take

them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if 3.

you ask them to explain about the principles of physics 4.

that have gone into creating the computer, you don’t have 5. faintest idea. The failure to understand science leads to

such things like the neglect of human creative power. It 6.

also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between 7.

science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ 8.

between the two. Science is the production of new

knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is

the application of knowledge to the production of some

products, machinery or the like. The two are really

different, and people who have the faculty for one very

seldom have a faculty for the others. Science in itself is 9. harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide

technology, it’s not necessarily harmful. No society has 10.

yet learned to forecast the consequences of new technology,

which can be enormous.

Passage 10

The great whales are among the most fascinating

creatures which have ever lived on the earth, and one of 1. them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient

times thought whales as fearsome monsters of the ocean 2. depths. So to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam

toward shore, he was high adventure. People found the 3. adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat from

one whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole

winter. Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred 4. by the ancients as ―great fish,‖ and any whale beaching

along the coasts of England was designated ―the King’s

fish‖ because it automatically belonged to the Crown.

Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a 5. sense of wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture,

slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached 6. alarming proportions. Even though some species are protected

by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission

and theoretically all whale hunting is regulated, but the earth’s 7. stock of whales is still being depleted. In fact, some

scientists worry that 100 years since now here may be no 8. whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for 9. removing from the earth forever a remarkable and awe-

inspiring creature that always fed man’s imagination and made 10. the world a more exciting place.

Passage 11

About one in 20 children(those under 18)have a

group of symptoms that have come to be known as (1) attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD).About

60% of them carry those symptoms into adult.for what (2)

is,at root,a genetic phenomenon,that is a lot-yet many

studies have shown that ADHD is indeed genetic and not,

as was once suspected,the result of poor parenting.it is

associated with particular varieties of receptor molecules (3)

for neurotransmitters in the brain.A neurotransmitter is a

chemical that carries messages between nerve cells and,in

the case of ADHD,that chemical is often dopamine,which

controls feelings of reward and pleasure.the suggestion is

that people with ADHD are receiving positive neurological feedback for appropriate behavior.the surprise is that the (4) variant receptors are still there Natural selection might

have been expected to purge them from the population if (5)

they have some compensating benefit.

Of course,this analysis turns in the definition of (6)

―inappropriate‖.the main symptom of ADHD is

impulsiveness.sufferers have trouble concentrating on any

task unless they receive constant feedback,stimulation

and award .they thus tend to flit from activity to activity. (7) adults with ADHD tend to perform poor in modern （8）society and are prone to addictive and compulsive

behavior .but might such people do well in different circumstances?one hypothesis is that the behavior

associated with ADHD helps people,such like hunter- （9）gatherers and pastoral nomads,who lead a peripatetic

life .since today’s sedentary city dwellers are recently

descended from such people,natural selection may （10）have hadtime to purge the genes that cause it.

Passage 12

Since the industry revolution 200 years ago,mankind （1）Has depended on fossil fuel .the notion which this (2) Might changeis hard to contemplate .Greens may hector. Consciences may nag.the central heating’s thermostat

May turn out a notch or two.a less thirsty car may sit in (3)

The drive .but actually stop using the stuff ?impossible to

Imagine:surely there isn’t a serious alternative ?

Such failure of imagination has been at the heart of (4)

The debate about climate change .the green message_use

Less energy_is going to solve the problem unless economic (5)

Growth stops at the same time .if it does not (and it

won’t),any efficiency saving will soon be eaten up by

Higher consumption per head .even the hair—shirt option,

Then,will bring only short-term relieve .and when a dire (6)

Prophecy from environmentalism’s jeremiad looks as the

Price of petroleum rises through the roof and the idea that

Oil might run out of is no longer whispered in corners but (7)

Openly discussed ,there is a temptation to believe that the

End of the world is ,indeed ,nigh.

Not everyone ,however,is so pessimistic.for,in the

Imaginations of a coterie of physicists,biologists and

Engineers,a alternative world is taking shape.as the (8)

Special report in this issue describes ,plans for the end of

The fossil-fuel economy is now being laid and they do not (9)

Involve much self-flagellation.instead of bullying and

Scaring people ,the prophets of energy technology are

Attempting to seduce them.they promise a world which, (10) At one level,things will have changed beyond recognition,

But at another will have stayed comfortably the same ,and

May even have got better.

Passage 13

The most popular rappers are brilliant entertainers.

They have also done a lot to make people aware of the

difficulty facing poor urban blacks. But their political （1）views are neither particularly acute or central to their (2) work. Consider the hot album of the moment: ― Tha

Carter Ⅲ‖by Lil Wayne. Its central message is that if you

are a rap star, you will get lain. The song ―Lollipop‖, for (3) example, celebrates a young lady who treats Lil Wayne as

she might a lollipop.

On the last track Lil Wayne does get serious. He

laments that ― one in every nine black Americans are

locked up‖ and that ― the money that we spend on sending

a motherfucker to jail… would be fewer to send his or her (4) young ass to college.‖ Troy Nkrumah, the chairman of

the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, thinks it wonder (5) that Lil Wayne is speaking truth to power. But if Lil

Wayne is to be spoken seriously, it needs to be pointed out

that his ― one in nine‖ figure is accurate—it is true only of (6) black men aged 20-34, not black Americans in general.

And his analysis is s implistic: the government’s spending

priorities are not the sole determination of whether you (7) break rocks or read books. Earnest hip-hop fans often

argue that ―commercial‖ rappers such as Lil Wayne is (8) beside the point. Hip-pop’s revolutionary potential is

most expressed by conscious rappers who focus on (9) important issues rather than babes, bling and booze. The

Roots, a group from Philadelphia, are often cited as

example. Their message? ―If I can’t work to make it, I’ll （10）rod and take it. Either that or me and my children are

starving naked

Pssage14

Americans may disagree with nearly everything, but (1)

Few contest against the idea that owning your home is a (2) good thing. Song of praise to homeownership are a

commonplace for American politicians, and, since

the nineteen-thirties, public policy has been designed

to making home buying cheaper and easier. (3) Homeownership has tremendous social benefits,

stabilizing neighborhoods and making people more willing

to invest with their communities. And it has economic benefits, (4) too, serving as a forced-saving program that allow people (5)

to leverage their incomes and build wealth.

Homeownership provides financial security for families and

generates economical strength that fuels the entire nation. (6) That never seemed more true than in the years from

1994 to 2005, when the percent of Americans who own (7) homes rose at almost ten per cent, and the amount of (8) wealth tied up in property soared. But our profound

respect of homeowning has blinded us to the fact that,

along with the benefits, it has some very real costs—costs

that only get bigger as the ranks of homeowners swell.

The housing boom undoubtedly helped the economy’s

Growing rate and made lots of first-time home buyers (9) happy. Fortunately, it may also end up prolonging and (10) deepening the current downturn.

Passage15

Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built

the steel industry in the Unite States, and, in the

process, become one of the wealthiest man in American. (1) His success resulted in part in his ability to sell the product (2)

and in part from hid policy of expanding during periods of

economic decline, where most of his competitors were (3) reducing their investments.

Carnegie believed that individuals should progress

through hard work, and he also felt strongly that the (4) wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of

society. He opposed charity, preferred instead to provide (5) educational opportunities that would allow others to help

themselves. ―He who dies rich, dies disgraced,‖ he often

said.

Among his more noteworthy contributions to society

are those that bears his name, including the Carnegie (6) Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of

fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also

found a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie- (7) Mellon University. Other philanthropic gifts are the

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote

Understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of

Washington to found scientific research, and Carnegie Hall

to provide a center for arts. Few Americans have been

left touched by Andrew Carnegie’s generosity. His (8) contributions of more than five million dollars established

2,500 libraries in small communities through the country (9) and formed the nucleus of the public library system what (10) we all enjoy today.