Is the world really going mad? 1._____day I was sittng in a restaurant 2._____ a quick drink and a talk with a few friends when it suddenly 3._____ me that almost everyone in the restaurant was smoking. It wasn’t long 4._____ the whole room was 5._____ with smoke. I asked with an apology for 6._____ to open a window to stop myself 7._____!
Nowadays air pollution is something that hardly question any more. However, I still can’t walk down the street in any of the big cities without 8._____ that people are 9._____ the air pollution. It is time for the government departments of the world to introduce emission(废气排放) controls on all cars and 10._____ the public transport system(公共交通体系) to encourage people to 11._____ their cars at home. A friend of mine takes flying lesson each morning and it really makes him 12._____ when he climbs above the smog layer(烟雾) and looks down 13._____ it and thinks: “I’m breathing that!” This kind of 14._____ results from the bad management of resources. Waste things can 15._____ should, be treated properly. House building, road 16._____, and industrial development are all earthmoving(or earth-reducing) operations and can change the balances of 17._____ created over millions of years. I would like to 18._____serious studies done on all these main works before they are built. Also, there should be 19._____ national parks set up to keep the most beautiful parts of our countries in their natural 20._____.
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A.The other B.Another C.Every D.Each
A.asking for B.drinking C.having D.buying
A.seemed B.struck C.sank D.showed
A.ago B.after C.before D.now
A.full B.filled C.crowed D.parked
A.promise B.help C.suggestion D.permission
A.standing B.sitting C.talking D.dying
A.thinking B.persuading C.deciding D.learning
A.suffering B.dying C.walking D.standing
A.increase B.reduce C.improve D.raise
A.wash B.repai C.drive D.leave
A.sick B.tired C.foolish D.excited
A.on B.at C.from D.for
A.discussion B.question C.pollution D.operation
A.but B.yet C.still D.and
A.work B.construction C.building D.setting
A.life B.mind C.human being D.plants
A.see B.start C.enjoy D.pay
A.few B.any C.more D.no
A.situation B.states C.soils D.place
The eyes are one of the most expressive of body language.Keith,seventeen,from Montclair, New Jersey,learned the hard way about one the eyes can make.“I had a teacher who heavily on classroom discussion,”Keith says.“He seemed to have a strong to know just when I didn’t have the answer.I couldn’t how he could be so .Then it dawned on(逐渐被人明白)me. I didn’t know the answer,I would looking at him.When I did know what to say,I always stared straight back him.From that moment on,I myself to look him in the eye, I knew the answer or not.That trick has me a lot of trouble.”
Many people, some policemen,believe eye contact is a good of testing honesty.If someone can’t look at you directly in the eye,then he or she is not playing ,they insist.After many experiments, ,a number of exports have found out that good liars can make false eye contact.
Eye contact,though not a sure of dishonesty, is a clear way to show interest in another person.When a person looks at you and continues to do so,you know his attention is on you.When he turns his head away, his mind is probably .But there is .A shy person may have trouble making and keeping eye contact,no matter how interested he is in the other person.And certain nationalities,such as the British and Germans,are much oriented(适应)to eyeball-to-eyeball contact than,say,the French and the Arabs.
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I grew up in a little village in England.My father was a struggling ,but I always knew he was special.
Dad’s always been very .At 15,I started a magazine.It was a great deal of my time,and the headmaster of my school gave me a :stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.I decided to leave,and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, as any good father would.When he realized I had made up my mind,he said,“Richard,when I was 23,my dad me to go into law.And I’ve always regretted it.I wanted to be a biologist, I didn’t pursue my .You know what you want.Go fulfill it.”As turned out, my little publication went to become Student,a national for young people in the U.K.
My wife and I have two children,and I'd like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad me.
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If you are a modern art lover, you should be sure to drop by the Saatchi Gallery during your visit to London.The original gallery was by Charles Saatchi, a British art collector for founding the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency with his brother.It moved from its old in St.John’s Wood to its new home in County Hall near the Thames in the spring of 2003.
Anyone who has heard in the past of the often shocking but always inspiring works on at the Saatchi Gallery will not be when visiting the gallery’s new location.Along with the of new British artists, the gallery still the works of Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers, and Tracy Emin in its permanent .
Of the artworks, one can see in the Saatchi Gallery, Hirst’s works are probably the most .Hirst’s work first made headlines in the early 1990s when he art from dead animals.
Along with Hirst, the Chapman brothers, Dinos and Jake, also a certain amount of their fame to the Saatchi Gallery.It was through Saatchi these two brothers came to public attention.At the gallery, visitors can see the brothers’ vision of Hell, made from 30, 000 plastic toy soldiers.
Another artist featured at the gallery who has grabbed with her art is Tracy Emin.In 1998, Emin gave to argument when she sold her messy, unmade bed to Saatchi as a work of art My Bed at £150, 000.
Are any of these works really art? That is a question you will have to answer for when you visit the Saatchi Gallery.Charles Saatchi himself says, “I don’t have any ground rules for art.Sometimes you look and don’t feel very with it—but that doesn’t tell you very much.It doesn’t reveal much about the quality of the work.”
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A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a , I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it from my hand and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, everywhere. I tried to use a broom, with each swipe they just rolled across the kitchen.
For the next week, every time I was in the , I found a pea---in a corner, or behind a table leg. They kept . Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean behind it, and 12 frozen peas hidden underneath.
At the time I found those few remaining , I was in a new relationship with a wonderful I’d met in a support group. After we married, I was reminded those peas under the refrigerator, and realized that my had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered(破碎). My wife had died; I was in a new city with a busy job, and with a son having trouble his new surroundings and the of his mother. I was a bag of spilled frozen peas; my life had come apart and scattered.
When life gets you , when everything you know comes apart, and when you think you’ll never , remember that it’s just a bag of scattered frozen peas. The peas can be , and life will move on. You’ll find all the peas , including the ones that are hardest to find. And when you’ve got them you’ll start to feel whole again.
The life you know can break apart at any time. But you’ll have to , and how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, will you pick them up one by one and put your life back together?
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A land free from destruction,plus wealth,natural resources,and labor supply--all these were important______in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution.______they were not enough.Something______was needed to start the industrial process.That“something special”was men--______individuals who could invent machines,find new______of power,and establish business organizations to reshape society.
The men who______the machines of the Industrial Revolution______from many backgrounds and many occupations.Many of them were______inventors than scientists.A man who is a______scientist is primarily interested in doing his research______.He is not necessarily working______that his findings can be used.
An inventor or one interested in applied science is______trying to make something that has a concrete use.He may try to solve a problem by______the theories ______science or by experimenting through trial and error.______of his method,he is working to obtain a______result:the construction of a harvesting machine,the burning of a light bulb,or one of many other objectives.
Most of the people who______the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors,not trained scientists.A few were both scientists and inventors.Even those who had_____or no training in science might not have made their inventions_____a groundwork had not been laid by scientists years_____.
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