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Passage 2For over 200 years, the natural （1）_ _ of America have been（2）_ _ _ us with a rich and wonderful life. And the（3）__ _ beauty of the land itself may be the most（4）_______ of all.But the beauty that was once（5）__ across out land is slowly（6）__ _ . In many parts of our country, the land can no longer be（7）_ for what it once was. That’s why, 22 years ago, the America the Beautiful Fund was founded for the preservation and（8）_______ of the natural wonders of America. （9）_________________________________ ________ ________________________________________________________________.And preserve it, so（10）_ . Support the America the Beautiful Fund, The future of our land may depend on it.（11）, 219 Shoreham Building, Washington, D.C. 20005.Passage 3How hard is it to get beautiful hair?Beautiful hair cannot be taken for granted.（1）______ factors, chemical（2）______ and the mechanical（3）______ done by combs, brushes and blow （4）______ all have a bad effect on the hair in the long run .The hair parts into thin pieces, loses its（5）_______, becomes hard and easily broken and develops（6）_______ ends.Our heated (7)_______, a new (8) _______ to pretty hair,（9）__________________________________________________________________. No hairdresser needs to be told how crucial the quality of a pair of scissors is. But （10）. What’s more, the heating element is located in the interior of the edges, with the best possible heat transference to the cutting edges.（11）____ ________________________________________________. The cut end of the hair is closed up smoothly and neatly.Passage 4The over-population of towns is mainly caused by the drift of large numbers of people form the （1）areas. These people have become（2）with the traditional life of farming, and have come to the towns hoping for better work and pay.One possible（3）to the problem would be to impose（4）on town residents. Only officially registered residents would be allowed to live in the towns and the（5）_______ population would thus be limited. In practice, however, registration would be very difficult to （6）; it would cause a great deal of（7）_ , which would ultimately lead to （8）.The only long-term solution is（9）_ _______________________________________________________.This could be achieved by providing encouragement for people to go and work in the villages.（10）_____ _____________________________________________________________________.Education should include training in improved methods of farming and other rural industries, so as to develop a more positive attitude towards rural life. The improvement of life in the villages is veryimportant,（11）________________________________________________________________________________________________.Passage 5Encouragement of（1）thinking in students is one of the（2）of most colleges and universities. Few professors require students to（3）the professors’own （4）.In general, professors are more（5）that students learn to question and critically examine the（6）of others, including some of their own beliefs or （7）__ . This does not mean that professors insist that you change your beliefs, either. It does mean, however, that professors will usually ask you to support the views you （8）__ in class or in your writing.If your arguments（9）___________. Most professors want you to learn to recognize the premises of your arguments, to examine（10）__ . Put it this way：Professors don’t tell you what to think; they try to teach you how to think.On the other hand, if you intend to（11）_________________________________. Arguing just for the sake of arguing usually does not promote a critical examination of ideas. Many professors interpret it as rudeness.Passage 6To help guide you through the（1）world of publishing this book includes advice on（2）your writing topic,（3）prospective（4）___ and publishers, organizing your（5）_ or book, and getting it into（6）.Also in these pages is（7）collected information on the technical（8）_______ markets（9）____________________.The latter include copyrights, contracts, and taxes. And for inspiration, you’ll read （10）. Indeed, the theme of this book is marketing as my primary aim is to help you market your technical writing to make it more publishable.（11）_ _______________________________________________________.Passage 7It is not true that one picture is（1） a thousand words. It takes only a few words-if they are the right words-to ignite the（2）_ and produce pictures far more（3）_______ than anything within the range of（4）_ communications.Yet the（5）importance and power of（6）is represented not by its（7）_______ images but by its ability to convey（8）ides. No matter how（9）_______________________________________________________________________________ _________ if he is unable to think abstractly.（10）__ ______ ___________________________________________________. This is what is meant by abstract thought. No other medium of communications can equal the speed and accuracy of print in moving an abstraction from one human brain to another. If we are looking for a way to kill philosophy,（11）_________________.Passage 8How is a (1) produced? It is produced by the effect of light on certain (2) .Certain chemical (3) change when light reaches them. Where the light is (4) they get very dark. Where (5) light reaches them they get less dark. For this reason the (6) picture take H by a camera (7) light objects as dark shapes，and dark objects as lighter shapes. It was possible to take photographs only when scientists had discovered something about the effects of light.Scientific discoveries have important effects on society. The discoveries about light made by scientists had (8) effects. (9) _____________________________________________ ________________________________________________. When Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin，(10) _____________________________________________________________________________________________. The effect of penicillin on a human body is to kill some of the dangerous germs which enter the body. Penicillin kills these germs quickly，before they have time to produce very harmful effects on the sick person. Before penicillin was discovered，millions of people died every year of the diseases caused by these germs. The number of deaths was greatly reduced by penicillin. (11) _______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________.Passage 9Banks and (1) money-lenders are unwilling to make funds (2) to a poor farmer who cannot repay his loan. But if no one 1endshlm money he must (3) _______ poor. For this reason some governments now make funds available t0 poor farmers and do not expect payment of (4) or early (5) of the loan.A poor farmer who obtains a loan from a rich money lender cannot improve his (6) ___ of living He only (7) to the money 1enders income and improves the money lender’s standard of living. In fact he becomes the (8) of the money lender and cannot get free. Some poor countries (9) ________________ ____________________________________________：they do not wish to contribute to the income and power of the rich countries. It is probably unwise to take a loan, if this involves losing ones freedom.A rich country should not (10) __________________________________________________________________________________________________. On the other hand a loan wisely given and wisely used can contribute to the improvement of a poor country’s standard of living. Even if a rich country 1ends money to a poor country without expecting interest, this is a kind of investment. When the poor country (11) ____________________________________________________________, both countries will become richer as a result.Passage 10Many stories about famous people are not (1) on facts. They are like some of the (2) _ which people tell about their friends，which are (3) from a friend to a friend’s friend and so on. A story which is passed from mouth to mouth in this(4) may be better in the end than it was in the (5) , but probably it will end (6) as a very different story. Each (7) adds something or leaves something out or changes something，so by thetime the story is written in a book it is a long way from any (8) in fact.An English novelist wrote a new book and (9) __________ _____________________________________________ that evening the novelist had a meal with his publisher and an American friend. They talked about the new book，(10) ____________________ ______________________________________________________________________. Later the publisher asked him why he had not been more accurate. “To an American，”said the novelist，“a thousand is nothing. (11) __________________ _________________ ___________________________________________________.”This novelist was not famous for his accuracy but for his novels；he knew how to tell stones His best novel will probably live for a long time.Passage 11When my father died 15 years ago, my brother and I（1）__ the old Midwestern farmhouse our grandparents had（2）_ __ in the 1930s. I was the one who decided to make a life in this village, population 350, in（3）__ _ Michigan.A job in the English（4）__ of a nearby college quickly followed. I（5）______ into small-town life,（6）_ _ by a community where your neighbors are also your friends and no one worries about locking a door.（7）_ I forgot about the big-city stress of crowds, noise and（8）_ _ .I was（9）__________________ ________________________________________. Shocked and frightened, I called 911, and soon my would-be attacker was arrested, according to police,（10）_ _____________________________________________________________.It was revealed in court evidence that he was a mental patient who had fallen through the cracks of the mental health system.（11）_____________________________ ___.Time and again, colleagues and friends have urged me to get a gun to protect myself.Passage 12Millions of people ⑴_______ out of bed each morning, ⑵______ into some clothes, and make their way to a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper. They need something ⑶______ to ⑷_______ them that the rest of the day will be less difficult than ⑸_______ up. This need may be the reason that many of them ⑹_______ their half-opened eyes to the comics ⑺_______ of the newspaper as they ⑻_______ first cups of coffee of the day.Cartoons reflect the times and the troubles and worries of people. ⑼_________________________________________________________________________. They also make fun of the problems that people make for themselves-like making a problem out of which type on. Cartoons provide scapegoats (替罪羊). They also help people to see the humor in a not-so-funny situation. Cartoons also make people laugh at their own personal worries. Young people who are not always sure of how to act can smile at their awkwardness. ⑽__________________________________ ______________________________________________________. Everyone’s problems are made bigger-than-life in the comics. Perhaps the problems seem funny because there is humor in something that is real being made unreal.⑾_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Their troubles seem less important, and they enjoy life more fully.Passage 13Human feelings are ⑴by color unconsciously. Manufacturers have discovered by ⑵_ and error* that sugar sells badly in green wrappings, that blue foods are considered by consumers as tasteless, and that cosmetics should never be ⑶in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole ⑷of color psychology. Some of our ⑸____ are clearly ⑹. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore ⑺with quiet and calm, Whitish yellow is a ⑻___ color in association with energy.⑼. So it was natural that green, the complementary color to red, should be associated with passive defense. Experiments have shown that colors also have a direct psychological effect. ⑽. Red is exciting. Similar exposure exciting, it was chosen as the signal for danger.⑾. So fire engines and ambulances in some advanced countries are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop traffic dead.Passage 14A resent poll by the National Sleep Foundation found that two-thirds of the U.S. population gets less than the ⑴hours of sleep at night. That means sleeplessness is of epidemic ⑵______ in this country.Whether it’s the result of insomnia (失眠症) or today’s burn-the-midnight-oil lifestyle, not getting enough sleep to poor ⑶, lack of ⑷, impaired memory, even ⑸. It also can make you more ⑹to infections. Researchers have found that ⑺sleep over just six nights impairs metabolic and hormonal functions. Over time, this can ⑻the onset or increase the severity of high blood pressure and Type Ⅱdiabetes (糖尿病).⑼_____ . Wakefulness is often the result of bad sleep habits. Sleeping in for hours on weekends, for example, confuses body’s internal clock and leads to wide-eyed nights and dazed mornings. So will long naps, although shorts ones to pay back sleep lost the night before or in anticipation of a late night are O.K.⑽__________ : stick to a regular bedtime schedule; try to avoid intense mental activities before bedtime; consider getting rid of or hiding your bedside clock; watch what you eat; limit alcohol consumption and avoid tobacco; abd do exercise.If sleep trouble or daytime drowsiness persists, consult a doctor. ⑾_______________________________________________________________________________ _________.Passage 15A few drinks a week may slightly (1) ______ a woman’s chance of developing h igh blood pressure, or hypertension, but (2) _______ more than a drink a day puts her at (3) _______ risk,Harvard researchers report.The researchers looked at alcohol intake and (4) _______ high blood pressure reported by more than 70,000 women. They followed the women for 28 years to see (5) _______ they developed hypertension, taking into (6) _______ other (7) _______ known to be (8) _______ with high blood pressure, such as weight, physical activity, age, and smoking.The researchers found that (9) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________. By contrast, women who drank more than 1.5 drinks a day, or more than 10 drinks weekly, had a 30% increased chance of developing chronic high blood pressure. Dr. Ravi Thadhani is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He noted that (10) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________, while high levels of alcohol may injure those vessels, boosting high blood pressure risk. The investigators also examined whether the type of alcohol consumed made a difference. They found that the higher consumption of beer, wine and hard liquor seemed equally harmful. (11) _____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________.Passage 16On Memorial Day weekend, 1995, my world changed (1) _______. I was competing in a horse-skill event in Virginia when my horse, Buck, decided to put on the (2) ______ just before the third jump. When he stopped suddenly, the force carried me over the (3) _______ of his head. My hands got entangled in the bridle(缰绳), and I couldn’t get an arm (4) _______ to break my fall. All six-feet-four-inches and 215 pounds of me (5) _______ headfirst. Within seconds I was paralyzed from the neck down and fighting for air like a (6) _______ person.I (7) ______ up five days later in the intensive-care unit at the University of Virginia hospital. Dr. John Jane, head of the hospital, said that I was (8) ______ lucky to have survived. (9) ____________________________________________________________________________. Dr. Jane said my skull would have to be reconnected to my spinal column. He wasn’t sure if the operation would be successful, or even if I could survive.(10) ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________. As family and friends visited, I was very excited. I would feel so grateful when someone came a long way to cheer me up. (11) _____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________.Passage 17The French family meal is (1) _______ an important time of togetherness. Problems and ideas are (2) _______ while everyone enjoys the meal. Since this is an important part of the day for each (3) _______ of the family, they each make a point of (4) _______ time for this meal, which may last from two to four hours. During th is time the family may talk together about the day’s events, (5) _______ plans, events in the news, and so on. Most French families have this large (6) _______ at noon. However, in cases when the father or children do not come (7) ______ during the middle of tile day, the family (8) _______ together in the evening. Food is a very important part of the French way of life.(9) _____________________________________________________________________. Thefamily meal is especially important to the mother since she has spent much of her day shopping for and preparing the food with care. (10) ____________________________________________________________________________________. He may then give everyone a slice of bread after making the sign of the cross over the loaf with the knife. Often the mother slices (切片) the bread for the family by holding the bread against herself and (11) _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________.Passage 18Mobility has always been one of the main (1) _______ of the US civilization. Such geographic, sociological and (2) _______ mobility was best (3) _______ in the winning of the west and is still true today: the US citizen, unlike most Europeans, does not (4) _______ to change jobs or cities.The (5) _______ of the automobile made this easier and in the late 1920s, during the Great (6) _______, whole families took to roads, looking for jobs.Today, recent (7) _______ show a trend toward stabilization with the (8) _______of recent immigrants--but the pioneer and frontier spirit is still very much alive, (9) ___________________ _____________________________________________. On the outskirts (郊区) of big cities, (10) _______________________________________________________________________________ ____, but also to satisfy a taste to change and novelty which is a basic characteristic of the US social fabric. This wandering (11) ____________________________________________ and is often pictured as necessary to the fulfillment of an individual’s fate or of a people’s destiny.Passage 19People with bad health customs or habits have a much greater chance of suffering serous diseases and needing costly (1) _______ care, but good habits, such as a program of physical exercise, (2) _______ to protect health.Most of the patients who were in the hospital a long time and who (3) _______ high medical costs were people who were overweight, who smoked (4) _______, or who drank too much alcohol. Persons with such bad habits faced at least a 50 percent greater than (5) _______ chance of needing costly hospital care. The smokers usually had lung or blood vessel diseases. The heavy drinkers had (6) _______ or nerve diseases. And those who were overweight had heart disease, or other diseases.A program of physical exercise (7) _______ the body’s ability to dissolve or melt dangerous blockages in blood vessels. Such a blockage in vessels (8) _______ blood to the heart can cause a heart attack.(9) _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________. The program involved a great deal of physical exercise like walking and running. The scientists found that there was a large increase in each person’s physical cond ition after the ten-week exercise program.(10) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.So the study shows that physical exercise can help protect the p erson’s health. (11) _______ ______________________________________________________________________________.Passage 20A look at the history of the United States (1) _______ that this country has often been called "a (2) _______ pot," where various (3) _______ and ethnic groups have learned to work together to build a (4) _______ nation. Even those "(5) _______" Americans, the Indians, probably walked a land (6) _______ from Asia to North America some thousands of years ago. So, who are the (7) _______ Americans? The answer is that any and all of them are! And you, (8) _______ you come from, could also become an American should you want to.(9) _______________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________. They desire to escape economic hardship and political oppression in their native countries as well as the desire to seek a better education and a more prosperous life in America, "the land of opportunity.” (10) ___________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________.Americans have also learned much from the customs and ideas of the immigrants and are often influenced by them in subtle and interesting ways. (11) _____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________, as well as their ethnic arts, sports, holidays, festivals, and foods. They have greatly enriched American life.。