[填空题]Now that I have lost the notes, we’ll have to _____ without them.

[填空题]Now that I have lost the notes, we’ll have to _____ without them.

[简答题]

Reporter: And now we’ll switch to highlights of last night’s debate between the city’s two candidates for mayor, Bella Porter and sDan Shmankie. The debate lasted more than an hour and was at times rather loud and contentious. The crowd interrupted the speakers several times showing their strong disagreement.
Here’s what the candidates had to say on some of the issues. The first point that was hotly debated was in response to a question regarding die current homelessness problem in our city. Bella Porter, who has been active in city politics for over a decade and is currently serving as president of the city council, answered the question first.
B. Porter: I feel that Mr. Shmankie’s solution to the homeless problem is to sweep it under the rug. Mr. Shmankie believes that putting the homeless in jail will solve the problem. If we don’t see homeless people sleeping on our streets the problem doesn’t exist, right Wrong!

[单项选择]If we _____ now to protect the environment, we’ll live to regret it.
A. hadn’t acted
B. haven’t acted
C. don’t act
D. won’t act

[单项选择]"If we fail to act now," said Tom," We’ll find ourselves ______ in action later on.
A. paid back
B. paid for
C. paid up
D. paid off

[填空题]Now we travel to the north central part of the United States. We are in the state of South Dakota. The land is big and mostly fiat with many (36) of corn, wheat and soybeans. But as we travel west, the cropland gives way to wild grasses. A strong dry wind blows (37) from the west.
Suddenly, the land becomes (38) and rocky, dry and dusty--no longer green and gold. It is now a light red-brown color. All around are broken (39) forms. There are hills and valleys of all sizes and strange shapes.
These are the Badlands. Hundreds of thousands of years ago the area was (40) , but, then, forces of nature (41) the grass. Water and ice cut into the surface of the earth. They heat at the rocks, (42) them away. The result is one of the world’s (43) sights.
(44)
The area is a study in extremes. Temperatures in the summer have been as high as forty-six degrees Celsius. (45)