填空题____

你把钱花在赌博上还不如把钱丢掉。(might just as well)

烧煤的时候，不仅消耗房子里面的氧气，而且还散发出有毒的气体。(not only…but also…)

The French pianist who had been praised very highly _____ to be a great disappointment.

根据我们的调查，西雅图（Seattle）现在是设立企业的最佳地点，取代了亚特兰大（Atlanta）作为最热门地点的地位。(elbow out)

______ so many people been out of work as today.

这位中国电影明星曾经说过，他宁愿被人们当作普通人怀念而不是名人。(would rather…than)

—Where’s Cathy?　　—______ Anything wrong?　　—I asked her to do something, but she wouldn’t.　　—______　　—To wash her hair before supper.

—Nick, what do you do now?　　—I joined the editorial staff of a local newspaper, ______ I have contributed to various monthlies.

nder the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies, among which the rates paid to labor figure prominently. The price which society pays for t he law, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great, but the advantages of this law are also greater than its cost—for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we cannot evade it；or the effect of any new substitutes for it proposed We can not be sure: and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore. as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment；the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few；and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

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即使他们得到提升，薪水仍可能比做同样工作的男人少。(even if, less than)

Simon: I’m a reporter from the Hendon Standard.________　　Celia: Yes, I was standing at the end of Elm Avenue, by the park.　　Simon: What happened?　　Celia: There was a red van traveling west, and several cars and vans behind it.

老师应该像对待自己的孩子一样去对待学生。(supposed, as if)

Doreen: We’ve been waiting for an hour and a half.　　Trevor: Say your aunt is very ill. A doctor ought to see her at once.　　Doreen: There isn’t a doctor available. They’re all busy.　　Trevor: ________　　Doreen: I’ve asked her over and over again. The more I ask, the longer I wait.

To its fans, it is addictive. To the media, it is a promising money-maker. Sudoku, an old puzzle long popular in Japan is fast gaining (1)____(popular) the world over. In Britain, a sudoku book is a bestseller and national newspapers are competing (2)____(feverish) to publish the most, and the most fiendish, puzzles. Meanwhile, the puzzle is being published in newspapers from Australia to Croatia to America. Even the New York Times is considering (3) intr____ sudoku in its Sunday magazine, alongside its venerated crossword.　　The game’s appeal is that its rules are as simple as its solution is complex. On a board of nine-by-nine (4) sq____, most of them empty, players must fill in each one (5)____ a number so that each row (left to right), column (top to bottom) and block (in bold lines) contains 1 to 9. Advanced (6) ver____ use bigger boards or add letters from the alphabet.　　Sudoku—the Japanese word combines “number” and “single”—seems perfectly suited to modern times, a puzzle for an era when people are more (7) nu____ than literate. And like globalism itself, sudoku transcends borders by (8)____(require) no translation.　　The overall business of puzzles is hard to measure (9)____ revenues in America from magazines, syndicated newspaper sales, books, and online and phone services are almost $200m annually. The New York Times earns millions of dollars a year from its crosswords and hundreds of thousands from a special phone service that provides (10)____(hint). Over 30,000 people pay $35 a year for the newspaper’s e-mail version.

各级领导人毫无例外，都不应滥用职权。(without exception)

Mr. White works for a chemicals import and export company, but he has been working for this industrial fair, while he is _______ from that company.

She was very ______ because she made a ______ of ￡10,000 on the sale of her house.

Oil sales volume in local urban and rural areas rose by 24% and 50% ______, over July 2006.

The shipping authorities followed the ______ of the unidentified submarine on their radar screens.

In the early 1950s the researchers who produced the first clad glass optical fibers were not thinking of using them for communications. (1) H____, fiber optics was already a well-established commercial technology when the famous paper by Kao and Hockham, (2)____(claim) the use of low-loss optical fibers for communication, appeared in 1966.　　The first low-loss silica fiber was described in (3)____ which appeared in October of 1970. The date of this publication is sometimes (4)____(cite) as the beginning of the era of fiber communication. Although this development did receive (5)____(consider) attention in the research community at the time, it was far from inevitable that a major industry would evolve.　　The technological barriers appeared formidable because there were serious doubts as to (6) wh_____ these fiber components could ever be produced economically enough, but the market potential was very significant. (7)____(consequence), research and development activity expanded rapidly, and a number of important issues were (8) re_____ during the early 1970s. During the middle and late 1970s，the rate of progress towards marketable products accelerated as the emphasis (9)____(shift) from research to engineering. Fibers with losses (10) app____ the Rayleigh limit of 2 dB/km at a wavelength of 0.8μm were produced.　　By 1980 improvement in component performance, cost, and reliability led to major commitments on the part of telephone companies.

正是经过彻底检查后，他们才发现故障所在。(It was…that)

What is the distance between the first letter and the last letter of “smiles”?

The age of requiring retirement in companies should be raised, and so　　　　 1．______should the age to begin Social Security. First of all, older workers whoremain healthy are valuable workers. Although they may lose some mental　　　　　2．______speed, their accumulate experience more than compensates for the　　　　　　　　3．______loss of quickness. In fact, compared with youngsters, older persons maytake long to make a decision, but it is usually a better one. Many studies　　　 4．______have shown that the quality of job performance improves with age. Furthermore,raising the retirement age would prevent from some of the dire economic　　　　  5．______consequences what senior workers face when they are forced to retire before　　　6．______they need to Nearly 60 percent of workers in the private sector shouldbe allowed to continue working with economic reasons. Fortunately, these　　　　 7．______people don’t have to furnish a home, raise children, and pay for educationalexpenses. Similarly, raising the age that retirement begins could also mean　　　8．______raising the age that Social Security payments begins. As a result, the cost of　 9．______one of our country’s biggest financial burdens will go under.　　　　　　　　　 10．______