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2010年10月Todays heroessome of them, anywaytell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4 “culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7 me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all menand, I am afraid, most womenas 10 .There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when the work is completed.My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .Well, its a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you dont 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasnt 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it wont be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel.A. handicap B. element C. weaken D. means E. heardF. question G. freshman H. home I. strikes J. doneK. source L. different M. conceived N. particular O. grinR skill Q. laughed R. prejudice S. monument T. singsU. rewards V. departure W. intended X. world Y. bizarre2010年1月Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a 1 difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. Their 2 for killing goes like this: one of a doctors 3 is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it. There is nothing new in this view. When Hippocrates 4 his oath for doctors, which explicitly rules 5 active killing, most other Greek doctors and thinkers disagreed with his 6 . The womens magazines are about one third 7 to clothes, one third to mild comment 8 sex, and the 9 third to recipes and pictures of handsome salads, desserts, and main 10 . “Institutes” exist to experiment and tell housewives how to cook attractive meals and how to turn leftovers into 11 of art. The food thus pictured looks 12 famous paintings of still life. The only trouble is its tasteless.One of the greatest and most 13 criticisms of television has been that in 14 to the largest audience possible, it neglects minority audiences and minority tastes. This is still 15 true. But there is, perhaps, one program a day and many, of course, on Sunday which an intelligent man or woman can enjoy and 16 interest from. In my trips east or west or north or south, I pick up the 17 paper to find this enjoyment or interest 18 vain.American individualism, on the 19 of it an admirable philosophy, wishes to manifest itself in independence of the community. You dont share things in 20 ; you have your own things. A familys strength is signalized by its possessions. Herein lies a 21 . For the desire for possessions must eventually mean dependence on possessions. Freedom is slavery. Once let the 22 instinct burgeon, and there are ruggedly individual forces 23 too ready to make it come to full and monstrous 24 . New appetites are invented; what to the European are bizarre luxuries become, to the American, plain necessities.AacquisitiveBappealingCargumentDbanEblossomFcommonGcoursesHdedicatedIderiveJdutiesKfaceLfirmMformulatedNinOjustifiedPlargelyQlikeRlocalSonTonlyUotherVoutWparadoxXworks2009年10月 So at least the historical evidence seems to suggest. When I was graduating from college, my 1 also found the world in a mess. The economic machinery had 2 down almost everywhere: In this country 3 a quarter of the population was out of work. A major war seemed all too 4 . As a college newspaper editor at that time, I protested 5 this just as vehemently as student 6 are protesting today. But today she passed the bakers by, climbed the 7 , went into the little dark roomher room like a cupboardand sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat 8 for a long time. The box 9 the fur came out of was 10 the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, 11 looking, laid it inside. But when she put the 12 on she thought she heard something crying.The Watts-as-a-way-station mentality has a firm hold on 13 those who remain and those who leave. Such as 14 is, the ghetto is regarded as 15 place to make a career for those who have a future. Without 16 , the prime American values underscore the 17 . Negroes, inside it or out, and whites too, behave toward the 18 like travelers.I know that American technical genius, and 19 of all the moon landing, seems to give the 20 to too summary a condemnation of the 21 system, but there is more to education 22 the segmental equipping of the mind. There is that transmission of the value of the 23 as a force still miraculously fertile and movingmostly 24 from American education at all levels.2009年1月Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a 1 of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in 2 with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days. With this advantage of work another is 3 , namely that it makes holidays much more delicious 4 they come. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to 5 his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time 6 an idle man could possibly find.Discussing the question, some time 7 , with an old friend, she gave me her never-failing 8 for sleeplessness, which was to imagine 9 performing some trivial 10 over and over again, until, her mind becoming disgusted with the monotony of life, 11 drew the curtain. Her favourite device was to imagine a picture not 12 quite plumb upon the wall, and then to proceed to straighten it.I believe that over a period of decades newspapers have become a 13 rather than a function. They have held their 14 so long that change has become 15 . I do not know, in fact, of any 16 that has changed as little in the last twenty years as the 17 press. And this resistance to change is the end of 18 which, in turn, marks the end of usefulness.The key is to segment the market 19 . This enables the company to pitch 20 customers with specialized 21 that no other company can begin to 22 . Example: One customer segment is the 23 profession. Cable & Wireless is developing features and functions that 24 tremendous appeal to lawyers.2008年10月Women have an average life 1 of seven years longer than men and tend to marry men older than themselves; so two-thirds （six million） of all older women are widows. 2 widowed they do not have the same social prerogatives as older men to 3 and marry those who are younger. 4 , they are likely to end up alonean ironic 5 of events when one remembers that most of them were raised from childhood to consider 6 the only acceptable state.The sheriff follows the county attorney 7 the other room. Then Mrs. Hale rises, hands 8 _ together, 9 intensely at Mrs. Peters, whose eyes make a slow turn, finally 10 Mrs. Hales. A moment Mrs. Hale holds her, then her own eyes 11 the way to where the box is concealed. 12 Mrs. Peters throws back quilt pieces and tries to put the box in the bag she is wearing.A company that delivers value 13 customer intimacy builds 14 with customers like those between good neighbors. Customer-intimate companies dont deliver what the market wants 15 what a specific customer wants. The customer-intimate company 16 a business of knowing the people it sells to and the products and services they need. It continually 17 its products and services and does so at 18 prices.Childhoods 19 never asks to be proved （all conclusions are absolute）. I didnt question why Mrs. Flowers had 20 me out for attention, nor did it 21 me that Momma might have asked her to give me a little talking to. All I 22 was that she had made tea cookies for me A. viaB. reasonable C. enoughD. cared aboutE. logicF. occur to G. tailors H. bondsI. but J. makesK. singledL. intoM. expectancyN. turn O. date P tightQ. meetingR. As a result S. When T. pointU. Suddenly V. favorite W. marriage X. lookingand read to me from her 23 book. It was 24 to prove that she liked me.2008年1月As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lesson in living.” She said that I must always be 1 of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some 2 , unable to go to school, were more 3 and even more intelligent than 4 professors. She encouraged me to 5 carefully to what country people 6 mother wit. When salesmen are doing well, there is 7 upon them to begin doing better, for 8 they may start doing worse. When they are doing 9 , they are doing terribly. When a salesman lands a large order or 10 in an important new account, 11 elation is brief, for there is danger he might lose that large order or important new account to a salesman 12 a competing company the next time around. The American dream promised older people that if they 13 hard enough all their lives, things would 14 well for them. Todays elderly were brought up to 15 in pride, self-reliance and independence. Many 16 tough, determined individuals 17 manage to survive against adversity. But even the tough ones reach a 18 where help should be available to them.Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal, 19 Arthur knew that they would leave each other 20 peace, would not even call 21 greetings. No one bothered 22 : you were a hunter, a dreamer, your own 23 , away from it all for a few hours on any day that the 24 did not throw down its rain.A. peopleE. bossI. believeM. areQ. outU. fromB. fearF educatedJ. inN. pointR. whoV. calledC. hisG. intolerantK. butO. listenS. youW. poorlyD. workedH. brings L. weather P pressure T. turn out X. college2007年10月She 1 to me because she was like people I had never met 2 . Like women in English novels who 3 the moors (whatever they were) with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful 4 . Like the women who sat in front of roaring 5 , drinking tea incessantly from silver trays full of scones and crumpets. Women who walked over the heath and read morocco-bound books and had two last names 6 by a hyphen. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.Homes and restaurants do what they can with this 7 which my mother-in-law would 8 on the spot. I have long thought that the 9 blindfold test for cigarettes should be applied to city 10 . For I am sure that if you 11 them blindfolded, you couldnt tell the beans from the 12 , the turnips from the squash. Chavel was filled with a huge and 13 joy. It seemed to him that already he was 14 twenty nine men to draw and only two marked papers left. The 15 had suddenly grown in his favor from ten to one to fourteen to one: the greengrocer had drawn a slip and 16 carelessly and without pleasure that he was safe. Indeed from the first draw any mark of pleasure was 17 : one couldnt mock the condemned one by any 18 of relief.Red Indians, while they were still 19 by white men, would smoke their pipes, not calmly as we do, but 20 , inhaling so deeply that they sank into a 21 . And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them 22 to attack a neighboring tribe, which would give them all the 23 that we (according to our temperament) derive from a horse 24 or a General Election.A. taboo B. faint C. shameful D. orgiastically E. savedF. race G. up H. peas I. sign J. famedK. fireplaces L. indicated M. stuff N. personally O. chancesP. enjoyment Q. distance R. vegetables S. discard T. dividedU. unaffected V. pureed W. walked X. appealed2007年1月What a bundle of contradictions is a man! Surely, humor is the 1 grace of us, for without it we should die 2 vexation. With me, nothing illustrates the contrariness of things 3 than the matter of sleep. If, for example, my 4 is to write an essay, and I have before me ink and pens and several 5 of virgin paper, you may depend upon it that before I have gone very far I 6 an overpowering desire for sleep, no matter what time of the day it is.The senior partner studied the resume for the hundredth time and 7 found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. Mcdeere, at least not on paper. He had the 8, the ambition, the good looks. And he was 9；with his background, he had to be. He was married, and 10 was mandatory. The firm also 11 heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting and wanted to be a tax 1awyer, which was of course a 12 with a tax firm.Imitations also came into the cheese 13. There are American 14 of most of the celebrated European cheeses, mass-produced and 15 by far than the imports. They would 16 European food-lovers to gag and 17but generally, the imitations are all thats 18 in the supermarkets. People buy them and eat them.I suspected at the time and now 19 that the riots were perhaps the most significant massive20 taken by Northern Negroes. It was a watershed in the ghettos 21. Before the riots, the reach of the Negro movement in America seemed 22 the province of small civil rights 23. Now Watts, and places like Watts, were redefining the 24 of black men in their citys life.A. realize B. history C. roleD. action E.leadershipF. within G. saving H. feel I. of J. intentionK. sheets L. better M. guffaw N. business O. causeP. available Q. cheaper R. duplications S. again T. requirement U. that V. hungry W. brains X. frowned 2006年10月Actually , I enjoy my work when the 1are large and urgent and somewhat 2 and will come to the attention of many people . I get scared , and am unable to sleep at night , but I usually 3 at my best under this stimulating kind of pressur and enjoy my job the most . I handle all these important 4 myself , and I rejoice with 5 pride and vanity in the compliments I receive when I do them well . But 6 such peaks of challenge and elation there is monotony and despair .Our anger goes beyond the simple policy matters . It goes 7 the fact that all the things we were told about Vietnam we found 8 when we got there . We found that 9 often American men were 10 in those rice paddies from 11 of support from our so-called allies . We saw at first hand the money your taxes 12 by a corrupt dictatorial regime .The fact is that although network television still 13 too little time to the vital service of informing the 14 , it does a better job in that little time 15 the nations press as a whole . And when I speak of the nations press as a whole , I am 16 speaking of the five or six splendidi newspaper and the 17 great newspaper which server the world as models of 18 public information .Another solitary man was fishing further along the canal , but Arthur knew that they would 19 each other in peace , would not even 20 out greeting . No one bothered you : you were a hunter , a 21 ,your own boss , away from 22 all for a few hours on any day that the weather did not 23 down its rain . Like the 24 in the army who said it was marvelous the things you thought about as you sat on the lavatory .AtremendousBassignmentsCintoDdyingEsquanderedFfrighteningGbetweenHnotIcallJcorporalKitLuntrueMwantNtooOpublicPresponsibleQthrowRdreamerSleaveTthanUperformVprojectsWallotsXone2006年1月The strategy also has ancient 1 . Ever since civilization began , certain 2 have tried to run away from it in hopes of finding a simpler , more 3 , and more peaceful life . They are willing to support thenselves and to 4 something to the general community , but they simply dont like the environment of 5 ; that is , the city , with all its ugliness and 6 .She 7 , conscientiously worrying 8 what amusements he might 9 be longing for which she had been too busy or 10 to imagine .He was very familiar 11 that anxious , 12 smile . Contrition sent him running after her .His subject matter will be 13 by the age he lives in at least this is 14 in tumultuous , revolutionary ages like our 15 but before he ever begins to write he will have 16 an emotional attitude 17 which he will never 18 escape .I am very good at these techniques of 19 , although I am not always able anymore to deceive myself . In fact , I am continuously 20 by people in the company who fall 21 to their own 22 . There are so many now who actually 23 that what we do is really 24 .AastonishedBcarelessCfromDacquiredEwithFdeterminedGfrownedHapologeticIsecretlyJantecedentsKdece