填空题____

她在阳光下只晒了一会儿，脸就开始变红了。(exposure)

No matter what measure they took, in no way ______.

Washington was ______ in his belief that only the right kind of education could solve major social problems.

We would greatly ______ any advice you may care to give.

你独自来到这个世界，独自一个人生活在这个世界，你也将独自一个人离开这个世界。（alone）

The TV station probably will be back _____ no earlier than this afternoon because of difficulties in locating a part.

Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to thegeneral public and to sociologists that modern society haschanged people’s natural relations, loosed their responsibilities　　　　　  　1．______to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place　　　　　　　　　　　　　 2．______for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances.　　　　　　　　　　　 3．______However, in recent years a growing body of research hasrevealed that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you area city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of yourneighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community.　　　　　　　　4．______But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant　　　　　　　　　　　　 5．______consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know fewof your neighbors you will know no one else.　　Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties withinsmall, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality ofmeaningful relationships do not differ from more and less　　　　　　　　　　 　6．______urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kinthan do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by　　　　　　　　　 　7．______developing friendships with people who share similar interestsand activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor　　　　　　　8．______are residents of large communities any likely to display　　　　　　　　　　　  9．______psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than areresidents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers doworry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of　　　　　　　　   10．______strangers.

She is an excellent teacher who has taught in four schools. ______ she taught, her principals had a high opinion of her.

Democracy is not a new conception. The ancient Athenians　　　　　　　　　　  1．______had a democratic system. Their democracy was the same asAmerican democracy in many ways. Furthermore, there are　　　　　　　　　　　　　2．______several important differences between their democracy and ours.　　The ancient Athenian citizens voted fortheir representatives, and they also voted for certain issues.　　　　　　　　   3．______Moreover, any qualified citizen could become public official. The　　　　　　　　4．______ancient Athenian democratic government also protected thecitizens’ right private property, encouraging private business and　　　　　　　5．______supported public education.　　A similar system of representative government exists in theUnited States. United States citizens vote for theirrepresentatives, and they can impeach representatives, too.　　　　　　　　　　　6．______American citizens also vote on certain important matters. In theUnited States, like in ancient Athens, any qualified citizen can　　　　　　　　 7．______become a public official. The government of this country alsoprotects private property, encourages private business enterprise.and supports public education.　　The major difference between these two forms ofdemocracy is the definition of citizen. In ancient Athens acitizen was a free man, not a woman and a slave. Women and　　　　　　　　　　　 8．______slaves were largest part of the population; thus, the Athenian　　　　　　　　　 9．______democracy was not broadly representative. In the United States,however, all American men and women, of all races andreligions, are citizens. Slavery is legal in this country.　　　　　　　　　　  10．______　　Therefore, American democracy is more broadly representative.In brief, democracy is an old and varied concept. In thePast it meant different things to many different people.

The growth of two-income families in the United States ______ of people moving to a new social class.

具有讽刺意义的是，诸如化妆品和减肥饮料这些被广告大肆渲染的产品对人体的魅力甚至是有害的。（detrimental to）

I can’t give you that for nothing. What do you take me_____?

Please do not ______ to contact our office in case of any difficulties. We are always ready to help.

We regret to inform you that the materials you ordered are ______.

当两个人设法交流却没能准确地表达出各自的想法，或者错误地以为自己已经领悟了对方的意思时，通常误解就产生了。

Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such (1)____(innovate) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been (2) acco____ by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology, (3)____ translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those (4) p____.　　This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go with it, has been shown for some time. In 1992, John Malone, chief executive of TCI, an American cable giant, welcomed the “500-channel universe.” Digital television was about to deliver everything (5)____ pizzas to people's living rooms. When the entertainment companies (6)____(try) out the technology, it worked fine-but not at a price that people were prepared to pay.　　Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC (7)____ than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in (8)____(expect) ways. Eventually it will change every aspect of it, from the way cartoons are made to the way films are screened to the way people buy music. That much is clear. (9)____ nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business.　　New technologies always contain within them both (10) th____ and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer, and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology.

Ivan: I brought you the new Groove People CD.　　Dale: What good is a CD if I haven’t got a CD player?　　Ivan: I can bring you a CD player.　　Dale: What good is a CD player if I don’t even have electricity?　　Ivan: ________.　　Dale: What good is calling the Electric Company if I haven’t got a house?

We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would　　 1．______say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with schooling,including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant ofscience than people with comparable education in Western Europe.　　　　　　　　　　 ?2．______There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers — how tobuild them, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So　　　 ? ? 3．______if you ask them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into　　 ? ?4．______creating the computer, you don’t have the faintest idea.　　　　　　　　　　　　 ? ? 5．______　　The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of　　 ? ?6．______human creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between　　 ? 7．______science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the　8．______production of new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is theapplication of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or thelike. The two are really very different, and people who have the faculty for onevery seldom have a faculty for the others.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ?9．______Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can providetechnology, it is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast　　 10．______the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.

这些要求有点过头，一系列的争端也由此而起。(too much, ask, quarrel, origin)

Directions:　　You are applying for admission to an English Course. Write a letter to introduce yourself, and you want to gain an application. You should write about 100 words on answer sheet 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need write the address.

It seems oil ______ from this pipe for some time. We’ll have to take the machine apart to put it right.

Directions：　　You are going to graduate from the college and say goodbye to your teacher. Write a letter to your teacher to:　　1. express your gratitude;　　2. summarize all the help and care by your teacher in four years;　　3. promise to repay your teacher's great help.　　You should write about 100 words on answer sheet 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use Li Ming instead. You do not need to write the address.

Mary: Hi, Erica. How did you do in the IELTS test? You took it two weeks ago, didn’t you?　　Erica: Yes, Mary. It was certainly a new experience for me. ______ It was quite a long day and I was very nervous.　　Mary: ______　　Erica: No, nothing special. I just studied the vocabulary by myself in the local library.

The man to whom we handed the forms pointed out that they had not been filled in ______ .