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The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm thathas recognized the need for change and done something aboutit. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or riskS1. _________losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support.Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racialS2. _________minorities, the paper has put into place policies andprocedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. TheS3. _________underlying reason for the change is that for information to befair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by theS4. _________same kind of population that reads it.A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, andphotographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’S5. _________content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff aboutdiversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a contentS6. _________audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner ofrepresentation of woman and people of color in photographs.S7. _________Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far tooinfrequently and were pictured with a disproportionatenumber of negative articles. The audit results fromS8. _________improvement in the frequency of majority representation andS9. _________their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with aS10. _________result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper.The diversity training and content audits helped theSeattle Times Company to win the Personal JournalOptimas Award for excellence in managing change.S1. it they S2. percents percent S3. maintain maintaining S4. subjective objective S5. value evaluate S6. an / S7. woman women S8. from inS9. majority minority S10. with asThomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principleof Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then,forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____just around the next corner. The fast-growing population'sdemand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risensteadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years ofgood harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____around the corner. Most experts believe this can continueeven as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _____although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy forpolitics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____point to concrete examples of continued improvementsin yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more thandouble corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8. _____rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _____stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plantbreeders can continue to develop new, higher-yieldingcrop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____for hope.S1. being been S2. their i ts S3. relative relativelyS4. good bad S5. as 去掉S6. politics political S7. by forS8. double doubled S9. few more S10. reason the reasonOne major decision which faces the American student ready tobegin higher education is the choice of attending a largeuniversity or a small college. The large university provides awide range of specialized departments, as well numerous 71. __________ courses within such departments. The small college, therefore, 72. __________ generally provides a limited number of courses andspecializations but offer a better student-faculty ratio, thus 73. __________ permit individualized attention to student. Because of it6s large 74. __________ student body (often exceeding 20,000) consisting in many 75. __________ people from different countries the university exposes itsstudents to many difference culture, social and out-of-class 76. __________ programmes. On the other hand, the smaller, morehomogeneous(同性质的) student body of the big college 77. __________ affords greater opportunities in such activities. Finally, theuniversity closely approximates the real world and which 78. __________ provides a relaxed, impersonal, and sometimes anonymous(隐姓埋名的) existence, on the contrast, the intimate 79. __________ atmosphere of the small college allows the student four years ofstructural living in which to expect and preparing for the real 80. __________ world. In making his choice among educational institutions thestudent must, there fore, consider a great many factors.71. (well) (well) as72. therefore however73. offer offers74. permit permitting75. in of76. culture cultural77. big small78. and / 或and which, this79. contrast contrary80. preparing prepareA great many cities are experiencing difficulties whichare nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not foundnew one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poorS1. __________ immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperityS2. __________which are then often disappointing. There are backward townson the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there wereS3. __________on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. DescriptionsS4. __________ written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of MexicoCity, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,S5. __________ are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—theS6. __________ poor can still be numbered in millions.The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as aS7. __________ promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural povertyS8. __________and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of theS9. __________ country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late,S10. __________ sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.S1. new a new S2. filling filled S3. though if S4. This WhatS5. was were S6. dissimilar similar S7. lies lie S8. that whichS9. it them S10. late laterSporting activities are essentially modified forms ofhunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modernS1. __________footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised huntingpack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless footballand his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and heS2. __________ scores a goal, enjoys the hunter’s triumph of killing his prey.To understand how this transformation has taken place weS3. __________must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over aS4. __________ million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survivalS5. __________ depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressuretheir whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radicailyS6. __________ changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-groupS7. __________ attackers.Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immenselyS8. __________long formative period of hunting for food, they becamefarmers. Their improved intelligence, so vital to their oldhunting life, were put to a new use—that of penning (把S9. __________……关在圈中), controlling and domesticating their prey. Thefood was there on the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks anduncertainties of farming were no longer essential for survival.S10.__________S1. Viewing ? Viewed S2. inaccurate ? accurateS3. (enjoys) ? he (enjoys) S4. up ? backS5. year ? years S6. (even) if ? (even) /S7. co-operate ? co-operated S8. when ? afterS9. were ? was S10.. farming ? huntingMore people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of anyother disease caused by a single agent. This has probablybeen the case in quite a while. During the early stages of71. __________the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh72. __________ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the73. __________ disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the74. __________ global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. Withoccasional breaks for war, the rates of death andinfection in the Europe and America dropped steadily75. __________through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, theintroduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened thetrend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowedto be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers76. __________ declared victory and withdrew.They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of77. __________ infections and deaths started to pick up again around theworld. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in78. __________many places where it had never been away, it grew better.79. __________ The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7billion people (a third of the earth’s population) sufferfrom tuberculosis. Even the infection rate wasfalling, population growth kept the number of clinicalcases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around80. __________3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poorcountries.71. in for 72. seventh seven 73. were was 74. now then75. the / 76. imported exported 77. are were 78. vanished had ~79. better worse 80. constantly constantWhen you start talking about good and bad manners youimmediately start meeting difficulties. Many people just cannotagree what they mean. We asked a lady, who replied that shethought you could tell a well-manned person on the way they71. __________ occupied the space around them—for example, when such aperson walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of72. __________ others. Such people never bump into other people.However, a second person thought that this was more aquestion of civilized behavior as good manners. Instead, this73. __________other person told us a story, it he said was quite well known,74. __________ about an American who had been invited to an Arab meal at75. __________one of the countries of the Middle East. T he American hasn’t76. __________been told very much about the kind of food he might expect. Ifhe had known about American food, he might have behaved77. __________ better.Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread thatlooked, to him, very much as a napkin（餐巾）. Picking it78. __________up, he put it into his collar, so that it falls across his shirt.79. __________His Arab host, who had been watching, said of nothing, but80. __________ immediately copied the action of his guest.And that, said this second person, was a fine example ofgood manners.71. (on the way) (on the way) that 72. unaware aware73. as than 74. it which 75. at in 76. hasn’t hadn’t77. American Arab 78. as like 79. falls fell 80. of /Passage 8Until the very latest moment of his existence, man has beenbound to the planet on which he originated and devel-oped. Now he had the capability to leave that planet and move 71. __________ out into the universe to those worlds which he has knownpreviously only directly. Men have explored parts of the moon.72. __________ put spaceships in orbit around another planet and possibly withinthe decade will land into another planet and explore it. Can we be73. __________ too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other 74. __________ planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated75. __________ such a procedure as a solution to the population problem: ship theexcess people off to the moon. But we must keep in head the76. __________ billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project. Tomaintain the earth’s population at its present level, we would haveto blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of theyear.Why are we spending so little money on space ex-77. __________ploration? Consider the great need for improving many aspects78. __________of the global environment, one is surely justified in hisconcern for the money and resources that they are poured into79. __________ the space exploration efforts. But perhaps we should look atboth sides of the coin before arriving hasty conclusions.80. __________71. had has 72. directly indirectly 73. into on 74. too so75. planet planets / worlds 76. head mind77. little much 78. Consider Considering79. they / 80. (arriving) (arriving) at 或arriving reaching/drawing/making。