[填空题]Many stories about famous people are not based on facts. They are like some of the stories which people tell about their friends, which are passed from a friend to a friend’s friend. A story which is passed from {{U}} (11) {{/U}} in this way may be better in the end than it was in the beginning, but probably it will {{U}} (12) {{/U}} as a very different story. Each story-teller adds something or {{U}} (13) {{/U}} or changes something, so by the time the story is written in a book it is a long way from any {{U}} (14) {{/U}} in fact. A man who tells a story does not always try to be {{U}} (15) {{/U}}. He may not believe that facts are necessary in a story. He may want to make people laugh or make them cry; he may even want to make them think.

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[填空题]Many people worry about some electronic creations made by human can surpass human creators.

[填空题]So many people complained about the heavy traffic____________(以致市政府最终采取了措施)

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Many people are concerned about the economic condition of developing countries — countries whose average per capita GNP is a fraction of that in more industrialized countries. However, for the developing countries, there exist many obstacles to their economic development.
One major obstacle to economic development is population growth. (46) The populations of most developing countries grow at a rate much faster than those of industrialized countries, and the population of some of them is so large that there is barely enough fertile land and other resources to support it. Many less developed countries depend extensively on agriculture, adding to the problem. In these countries, an incentive to have many children exists. (47) Most farms are worked by families, and children can work in the fields at an early age because most farmers believe that more children means more workers. In addition, having many children ensures the parents that someone will look

[单项选择]Many people are worried about what television has done to the generation of American children who have grown up watching it. For one thing, recent studies show that TV weakens the ability to imagine. Some teachers feel that television has taken away the child’s ability to form mental pictures in his own mind, resulting in children who cannot understand a simple story without pictures. Secondly, too much TV too early usually causes children to be removed from real-life experiences. Thus, they grow up to be passive watchers who can only respond to action, but not start doing something actively. The third area for such a worrying situation is the serious dissatisfaction frequently expressed by school teachers that children show a low patience for the pains in learning. Because they have been used to seeing results of all problems in 30 or 60 minutes on TV, they are quickly discouraged by any activity that promises less than immediate satisfaction. But perhaps the most serious result is th
A. Children suffer from mental pains.
B. Children spend little time learning unknown things.
C. Children become uninterested in class activities.
D. Children are weak at facing difficulties.