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Directions：Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.A The giving of gifts has been practised in every civilization ever studied. It is 48. basic human phenomenon that has a place in every culture and religion. Gifts are given to mark occasions throughout life，such 49. birth，marriage and retirement. Sociologists view gifts as a marker of the social relationship 50. givers and recipients. When friends exchange gifts，for example，there is an unwritten expectation 51. the gifts will be of roughly the 52. value，showing that the friends have equality of status. 53. ，in hierarchical (等级的) relationships it is a 54. story. If a worker and a boss were exchanging presents, the boss would be expected to give a larger present. In return for this generosity，the employee would be expected to both work hard 55.____ be respectful..BOne windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored kites of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies 48 beautiful birds dancing. 49 the strong winds blew against the kites, a string kept them incheck(在控制中).Instead of blowing away with the wind, 50 rose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining (限制的) string and 51 heavy tail kept them in check, facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be 52 !” They soared(翱翔) beautifully even as they fought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly53 the wind.”Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. It fell 54 to the ground and landed in a mass of weeds.Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may be annoyed about are actually the steadying force 55 helps us rise and achieve.CIt is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible 48 housework , but with one of following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.If you give your children the impression __49___they can never do anything quite right, they will regard themselves ___50 unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed , they will never become totally independent.My daughter Carla’s fifth-grade teacher made every child in _51 class feel special. When students received 52 than a perfect test score ,she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn 53 they had missed.You can use the same technique when you evaluate your children’s work at home. Don’t always scold them. You should give lots of praise 54 . Talk about what they have done right, not about what they have done wrong. If your children complete a difficult task , promise them a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.Learning is 55 process of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear the failure of making mistakes, they will learn faster andachieve success at last.DThe construction of Shanghai Disneyland project and the international tourist resort is 48. ______ to cost the municipal government more than 100 billion yuan($15.1 billion), 49. ______ than the expense of last year's World Expo. According to thereport, it will cost about 25 billion yuan to build the new theme park's core area, and 50.______ 40 billion yuan to finish affiliated（附属的）facilities. Most of these expenseswill be paid by the Shanghai government.The entire project will cover 51. _____ to 107.1 square kilometers, with 7 square kilometers taking up the core area, 13.6 square kilometers for affiliated facilities 52.______ 86.5 square kilometers for control areas. The government is expected to spendmore than 100 billion yuan on the project.."Affiliated facilities, 53. ______ a commercial hotel, are set to be finished before the park opens in 2015," said Xu Lin, who heads the Pudong New Area district. Majorconstruction work will begin in May, and affiliated facilities are scheduled to be done54. ______ June 2014.In addition, apart from government investments, overseas capital and some domestic companies are eyeing deals for the park's affiliated projects as well. AJapanese company, 55. _______ is in charge of Tokyo Disneyland's operations, iscontacting the Walt Disney Co in the US, trying to obtain an operation deal for the park.EAaron LeMieux loves to hike and often listens to the radio at the same time.While on a 1,500-mile hike 48. _______ the Appalachian Trail, Aaron started thinkingabout energy. Could the energy his body was creating be used to charge an electronicdevice? In 2006 Aaron quit his job 49. ________ turned the basement of his home intoa laboratory. He then put all his time 50. ______ developing the Power PEG.PEG means personal energy generator(发电机). 51. ________ uses the energy you create while moving to charge a hand-held device. Just put your Power PEG inyour bag, 52. ________ fasten it to your leg or bicycle. Then plug your MP3 player, cellphone or digital camera into your Power PEG’s USA port. L eMieux’s company,Tremont Electric, claims 53. ________ Power PEG can charge most hand-heldelectronic devices to 80 percent in one hour.Since it costs US$149, the Power PEG won’t appeal to everyone with its price so 54. ______. But for those 55. ______ spend a lot of time with electronic devices powered by batteries, it might come in handy.FThere was a tradition in Europe that 48 a dove（鸽）flew around a house where someone was dying, then his soul would be at peace．And there are legendswhich say that Satan （撒旦）can turn himself into any bird except for a dove．But itwas Pablo Picasso who made the dove a modern symbol of peace when 49 used iton a poster for the World Peace Congress in 1949．The rainbow is 50 ancient and universal symbol, often representing the connection between human beings and their gods．In Greek mythology it was associated with Iris, the goddess 51 brought messages from the gods on Mount Olympus．In Scandinavian mythology（神话）the rainbow was a bridge 52 the gods and the earth．In 53 Bible a rainbow showed Noah that the Biblical flood was finally over, and that God had forgiven his people．In the Chinese tradition, the rainbow is often taken as a common symbol for marriage．Nowadays the rainbow is 54 used by many popular movements for peace and the environment, representing the possibility of a better world in the future 55 promising sunshine after the rain．GMichael Jackson was born in August 1958, So was I. Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So 48_______ I. When Michael Jackson was six, he became a superstar, and was perhaps the world's most-beloved child. When I was six, my mother died. I never had a mother, but he never had a childhood. And 49._______you never get to have something, you become obsessed by it. There is no doubt that Michael Jackson is one of the greatest talents in the world. When he sang songs at the age of eight he could make you feel that he was 50_______experienced adult squeezing your heart with his words. When he moved he had the elegance of Fred Astaire and packed the punch of Muhammed Ali. 51_______music had an extra layer of inexplicable magic 52. _______ not only made you want to dance 53. _______actually made yon be anything you want to he. Because that is 54. _______ heroes do.He performed in soccer stadium around the world, and sold hundreds of millions of records and dined 55. _______ prime minister and presidents. Girls and boys fell in love with him. and everyone wanted to dance like him. He seemed other-worldly but he was a human being.HOlympic building projects are at risk because skilled Polish workers are going back home and there are not enough skilled British workers to replace __48__ . A quick training plan is being put in place to teach British people basic construction __49__ specifically for Olympic projects. As the Polish builders are beginning to go back home, migrant workers from other parts of Eastern Europe are taking their places; __50__, they don’t seem to be as well trained or have the same work ethics as the Polish workers. The Olympic Delivery Authority, the London Development Agency (LDA) and other partner organizations are going to spend ￡20 million —23 per cent of 51 training budget for London 2012 —in increasing the skills of the British workforce to __52__ the construction needs of the Olympics. They are also training electricians. A total of 1,500 workers nationwide will become fully skilled electricians __53__ attending the program. These workers will then work on building the Olympic Village. Iain MacDonald, head of a training program, told TheTimes, "All the way along we have been holding the view 54 we can’t rely on migrant labour. We have to put in plans for the long term. We can’t rely on migrant labour all the time. Britain has become too dependent on the migrant labour force. It is better to develop the skills of the 55population."A 48.a49. as50. between51. that52. same53. However 54. different55. andB 48. like 49. 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