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职称英语理工类A类-补全短文
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[填空题]Leslie’s 10-year-old sister Aubyn asked how many foster children there were in the area and found out that there were 300. Most of those children had to carry their things from place to place in plastic or paper bags. Leslie’s concern and the thought of those 300 children inspired young Aubyn to take action. Aubyn decided to ask people to donate their old suitcases to these foster children. ______ But after a few weeks, she had not received any donations.
- A. Charles and Isaac Meadows, ages 14 and 11, and Well and Burnside, Aubyn’s 8-year-old brother, got involved with the project in its early stages.
- B. She began making and hanging posters, speaking at churches, and asking other children for help.
- C. Aubyn inspired other kids to help with the cause too.
- D. Eventually, Aubyn’s humanitarian efforts were noticed by the media.
- E. By its sixth year, the little organization reached international status, having chapters in more than ten countries.
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[填空题]In his great Victorian novel A Tale of Two Cites, Charles Dickens begins his story with these well-known lines:
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..., it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going the other way.
______ In fact he was just stating some facts about the way people view time and events differently.- A. The English language is loaded with phrases that express the value of time.
- B. It is a good idea to take a close look at the fascinating concept of time, and examine how it is treated differently in America by various cultures and in different situations.
- C. Regions, groups, organizations, and individuals all have their own concepts of how to view time.
- D. No matter how we want to look a
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[填空题]Representatives of Callahan Media Associates (CMA) announced today that the news agency would attempt to buy the National Broadcasting System (NBS), the second largest television and radio network in the United States. Ronald Callahan, son of Jessica Callahan, who started CMA, told reporters that he expects his company’s offering price to be high enough to win out over other offers. ______
- A. Her success in raising the news reporting standards as well as making the Herald into a profitable business gained Callahan the attention and respect of the British news establishment.
- B. Philip agreed that Callahan and CMA had done a lot to help American newspapers become more financially secttre, but he expressed fears that the new management was going to make news coverage on NBS irresponsible.
- C. He indicated that NBS executives had already discussed reorganization plans that might result from a CMA takeover.
- D. Callahan had never visited the United States before
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[填空题]There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credit(信任)-not all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is the home. ______ Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
- A. We are beginning, however, to analyze men’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it.
- B. The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
- C. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences.
- D. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family.
- E. The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family.
- F. In such a home, the growing b
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[填空题]It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of a college romance playing out online-for better or for worse-would have been deemed weird, nerdy, or just plain pathetic. ______ But then MySpace came along, and Facebook took over-and today, courtship has become a flurry of status messages, e-mail flirtation, and, not so uneommonly; breakups that play out publicly for all 400 of your not-so-closest friends. And while a Facebook split is clearly not the ideal, Katie Vojtko has been on the other side of it, too: she ended a recent romance through an e-mail-to which she never heard back. "It’s not something I’m proud of," says the 22-year-old, who graduated in April. "But technology just makes dating so much easier."
- A. It’s easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.
- B. "And you don’t even have to be on the computer to engage in it."
- C. They can see where tha
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[填空题]Dreams are a product of the sleeper’s mind. They include events and feelings that he has experienced. Most dreams are related to events of the day before the dream and strong wishes of the dreamer. Many minor incidents of the hours before sleep appear in dreams. Few events more than two days old turn up. ______ Events in the sleeper’s surrounding-a loud noise, for example, may become part of a dream, but they do not cause dreams.
- A. Psychiatrists (精神病医生) often use material from a patient’s dreams to help the person understand himself better.
- B. Deep wishes or fears-especially those held since childhood-often appear in dreams, and many dreams fulfill such wishes.
- C. Most dreams occur in color but persons who have been blind since birth do not see at all in dreams.
- D. Dreaming may help maintain good learning ability, memory, and emotional adjustment.
- E. In most dreams, the dreamer cannot control what happens to him.
- F. Dream events are imagi
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[填空题]These countries aim to exploit two contradictory facts: information can now be stored anywhere, but energy is most efficiently consumed close to the source. ______ Internet Villages International has joined up with Atlantis Resources, an engineer of ocean turbines, to develop technology that could power local data centers with energy from Scotland’s rugged seas. Another company, Lockerbie Data Centres, is planning a green home and business community centered on a clean-energy data facility that runs on wind farms and a biomass plant.
- A. Thus several Scottish IT developers arc now planning nearly $3 billion in green data centers that tap into Scotland’s clean-electricity grid, 20 percent of which comes from renewables like wind.
- B. Google disputes this number, but there’s little doubt the IT industry is becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
- C. Iceland, struggling to recover from the financial crisis, may be even better poised to become a gree
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[填空题]That can be a good thing, with the Web serving as a kind of buffer zone (缓冲地带) for uncomfortable interaction. It’s easier to face rejection, there aren’t lulls in conversation or geographic boundaries-and social networking is like a window into the lives of potential mates. Say two people meet on Facebook, though a mutual friend, Immediately, they know whether the other person is single-without having to ask. ______ It’s all the details a person might encounter on a first or second date, without ever having to go on one. As David Yams, a recent graduate of Babson College, outside Boston, trots it: "Facebook has taken the potentially awkward first stages of flirting and getting to know someone into the comfort of your own home."
- A. it’s easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there.
- B. "And you don’t even have to be on the computer to engage in it."
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[填空题]Hurricane clouds move in a circle around a point called the eye, which is the center of the storm. To be called a hurricane, a storm must have wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour. When a hurricane comes ashore, there are heavy rains, large waves and strong winds that cause damage to buildings, cars and trees. ______ Storm surges are the main reason people are told to leave beach towns and move inland when a hurricane approaches. Hurricanes move very slowly though, so people have a chance to get out of the way.
- A. Hurricanes gather heat and energy from the warm ocean water.
- B. The first hurricane name starts with the letter A, like Ashley, and the names move through the alphabet as more hurricanes form.
- C. Meteorologists, scientists who study the weather, watch these storms very carefully.
- D. During the official hurricane season, these large storms sometimes hit coastal areas of the United States.
- E. This year, the United States has been hit
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[填空题]Today, Extreme Free Diving sinks to depths approaching 400 feet, sing weights to help them descend vertically into the big blue depths of cold and darkness that surround the earth. ______ Extreme Free Diving is truly a breathtaking sport. One day adding the word" Deeper" to the Olympic motto of" Swifter, Higher, Stronger" looks like a sure bet. The legendary Yorgos Haggi Statti would wipe water from his eyes, smile, and nod in approval.
- A. Free divers like Italian Umberto Pelizzari and Cuban Pipin Ferreras frequently break world records by diving without the use of wet suits, fins, or oxygen tanks.
- B. Extreme Free Diving has become very competitive and is exploding in popularity with "extreme" divers wherever athletes live near a sea.
- C. If accepted into the Olympics, EFD could make the Olympics’ organizers think about adding a new Latin term into the motto that we could translate as "Deeper,"
- D. Most of us think of deep water diving as the use of snorkel
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[填空题]By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting more of the Sun’s radiation back into space. ______ Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other animals.
- A. All human movement ceased.
- B. More than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.
- C. A mysterious "black cloud" approaches the earth-our planet’s weather is severely affected.
- D. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred.
- E. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.
- F. But conditions could not be said to have improve
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[填空题]To most, common sense means the ability to present sound, practical judgments on everyday affairs. To do this, one has to sweep aside extra ideas and get right to the core of what matters. ______ In conduction of meeting and dealing with industry reducing a complex problem to the simplest term is highly important.
- A. And 61 percent say that common sense was very important in contributing to their success.
- B. Besides common sense, there are many other factors that influence success: knowing your field, self-reliance, intelligence, the ability to get things done, leadership, creativity, relationships with others, and of course, luck.
- C. At the Gallop Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes of 1,500 prominent people selected at random from who’s who in America.
- D. A Texas oil and gas businessman puts it this way: " The key ability for success is simplifying. "
- E. If you develop these qualities, you’ll succeed.