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下列短文中每个空格有A，B，C，D四个选项，根据上下文选择一个最佳答案。

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When Chico Max decided to mount an exhibition of photographs of recent immigrants to Brazil, he had a harder time finding subjects than he expected. That is___1_____just 600,000 of the 204 m people living in the country are foreign-born. The small pool of potential sitters surprised Mr. Max. ____2____everyone in Brazil is descended from immigrants or African slaves; only the United States has a bigger non-indigenous population. The country’s president is the daughter of a Bulgarian; the vice-president has a road ___3_____ him in Lebanon. All of Mr. Max’s grandparents came from Portugal between the two world wars. As the title of his show this month in Sao Paulo proclaimed，“We are all____4____”.

Yet Brazil’s foreign-born population ____5____ at 73% of the total at the start of the 20th century and has been dwindling ever since. It is now a fifth of Latin America’s low average and a fraction of that in melting pots like the United States. That is a ____6____. Brazil needs millions of well-qualified workers____7____ its mediocre schools are not providing them. ____8____ more immigration, analysts warn, Brazil faces a “skills blackout”.

Some of the reasons for which migrants shun Brazil are obvious. It is not a rich country. Its language, Portuguese, is not widely spoken elsewhere. Yet Argentina,

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with a fifth of Brazil’s population and an equally troubled____9____, attracts more than double the number of newcomers — about 280,000 people a year, mostly poor laborers from other Spanish-speaking countries. They could easily master enough____10___to work in Brazil, although they would not solve the skills shortage.

They do not come because Brazil needlessly ____11____ additional roadblocks. Its legislation on immigration is “anachronistic (不合时代的)”，admits BetoVasconcelos, who handles the issues at the justice ministry in Brasilia. The main law dealing with immigration, enacted by generals who ruled from 1964 to 1985, _____12___ foreigners as a menace to national security and to Brazilian workers. It ____13____ non-Brazilians from taking part in political rallies, owning stakes in newspapers or participating actively in trade unions.

It also imposes cumbersome (麻烦的)conditions on foreign workers. Securing a work permit can ___14_____ months and cost thousands of dollars in legal and administrative fees. Most work visas are tied to an employer, so changing a job requires starting the ____15____process from scratch. Brazil’s enlightened refugee law, by contrast, grants asylum-seekers a work permit within a week of arrival, free of charge.

1. A. why B. because C what D. since

2. A. Nearly B. Hardly C. Rarely D. Scarcely

3. A. instead of B. named after C. regardless of D. celebrated with

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4. A. human beings B. immigrants C slaves D. citizens

5. A. lowered B. peaked C. tightened D. strengthened

6. A. problem B. puzzle C. surprise D. headache

7. A. therefore B. 8. A. With B. 9. A. economy B. 10. A. English 11. A. put out 12. A. serves B. 13. A. supports 14. A. take 15. A. application 完形填空2

otherwise C. but D. although

Besides C. Except D. Without

reason C. language D. name

B. Spanish C. Portuguese D. French

B. put up C. put down D. put forward

thinks C. treats D. welcomes

B. bars C. establishes D. warns

B. demand C. spend D. require

B. legal C. working D. immigration

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Only a naive sports fan would be shocked by a new round of doping allegations. In cycling’s

Tour de France from 1998 - 2013, 38% of the top-ten finishers were____1____ for using performance-enhancing drugs, and a ____2____ of track-and-field athletes’ blood test results earlier this year showed that around one-seventh were “highly suggestive of doping” . Yet the report on Russian athletes published on November 9th by the World Anti-Doping Agency still represents a new kind of ___3_____— or, more precisely, a very old one. __4______merely citing individual athletes, WADA claims that Russia has maintained an organized ___5____ doping programme of the sort that was thought to have ended with the cold war.

Russia first found itself in WADA’s cross-hairs last December, when a German TV station aired _____6___ of rampant PED use. In June the agency noted that Russia led the world in PED violations in 2013, with 11.5% of the global total. But once its investigators started ____7____, what they found was “worse than we thought”, said Dick Pound, the report’s co-author and a former WADA president. “It may be a residue（残余）of the ___8_____ Soviet Union system. ’’

The report’s main smoking gun (确凿证据) ___9_____Sergey Portugalov, the chief medical

officer of the All-Russian Athletics Federation. In an e-mail, he ____10____ Yuliya Stepanova, a runner, to increase her use of ____11____ testosterone ( 睾丸素). Ms Stepanova later secretly recorded her coach, Vladimir Mokhnev, while he allegedly

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gave her PEDs. The report also ____12____ Dr. Portugalov of directly delivering injections of banned substances to athletes, though it does not provide specifics. Dr. Porugalov could not be reached for comment.

In addition, WADA has levelled wider allegations of u direct intimidation and interference by the Russian state'' to____13____ doping. Many of the claims, such as assertions that Russia had

set up a “pre-screening” lab to filter out positive tests，seem to rely on hearsay. But the agency did _____14___ statements of guilt from people involved in the cover-up. Staff at a WADA- accredited lab in Moscow told investigators that its director, Grigory Rodchenkov，had ordered them to get rid of some sample. Mr. Rodchenkov, who resigned on November 10th, admitted himself that he had destroyed 1,417 test results before an inspection in 2014. And Liliya Shobukhova,a marathon runner, acknowledged paying €450,000 to ARAF in exchange for the destruction of samples that tested _____15___.

1. A. praised B. punished C. shocked D. charged

2. A. demonstration B. leak C. publication D. title

3. A. affair B. rumour C. scandal D. incident

4. A. Other than B. Except for C. Rather than D. Apart from

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5. A. international B. national C. external D. internal

6. A. congratulationsB. accusations C. quarrels D. honours

7. A. digging B. leveling C. pulling D. drawing

8. A. novel B. wonderful C. old D. energetic

9. A. involves B. contains C. includes D. occupies

10. A. prevented B. encouraged C. recommended D. introduced

11. A. useful B. useless C. legal D. banned

12. A. accused B. blamed C. charged D. criticized

13. A. condemn B. conceal C. reveal D. expose

14. A. make B. obtain C. deny D. admit

15. A. negative B. positive C. neutral D. ordinary

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I am on holiday in Bavaria, where, in between the beer and schnitzels, I have been contemplating the nature of trust. A rather old-fashioned guest house

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happily took our reservation and let us run up a bill of nearly €1 ,000 without ever ____1____ more than a signature. Not for the Bavarians the pre-authorized credit card. Our room keys were stored in an unlocked cabinet in a quiet corridor, along with the keys of every other guest in the place. It made me ____2____ why anyone was bothering with keys in the first place. Nevertheless, our belongings were not stolen and we paid our _____3___ when we left. The trust had been justified.

Since Germany is one of the most successful ____4____ in the world and Bavaria is one of the most successful economies in Germany, the thought did cross my ____5____that trust might be one of the secrets of economic success. Steve Knack, an economist at the World Bank with a long-standing interest in trust, once told me that if one takes a broad enough view of____6___, “it

would explain basically all the difference between the per capita income of the United States and Somalia”. In other words，without trust — and its vital complement, trustworthiness — there is no

____7____ of economic development.

Simple activities become arduous in a low-trust society. How can you be sure you won9t be robbed on the way to the comer store? Hire a___8_____? (Can you trust him?) The watered- down milk is in a locked fridge. As for something more complex like arranging a mortgage, forget about it.

Prosperity not only requires trust, it also____9____it. Why bother to steal when

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you are already comfortable? An example of poverty breeding____10____ comes from Colin Turnbull’s ethnographic (人种学的）study The Mountain People (1972)，about the Ik，a displaced tribe ravaged by Ugandan drought in the 1960s. If Turnbull’s account is itself ___11_____ (it may not be), in the face of extreme hunger, the Ik had abandoned any pretence at ethical behaviour and would lie, cheat and steal whenever possible. Parents would ___12_____ their own children，and children betray their own parents. Turnbull’s story had a horrific logic. The Ik had no hope of a future, so they saw no need to protect their_____13___ for fair dealing.

One of the underrated achievements of the modem world has been to develop ways to

____14____ the circle of trust by depersonalizing it. Trust used to be a very personal thing：you would trust your friends or friends of friends. But when I withdrew €400 from a cash machine, it was not because the bank ____15____ me but because it could verify that my bank would repay the money. This is a cold corporate miracle.

1. A. putting B. demanding C. giving D. writing

2. A. wonder B. confuse C. puzzle D. realize

3. A. taxes B. bills C. duties D. tips

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4. A. developers B. economies C. pioneers D. leaders

5. A. soul B. mind C. spirits D. heart

6. A. trust B. fame C. relation D. bond

1. A. destination B. prospect C. necessity D. fortune

8. A. helper B. servantC. bodyguard D. keeper

9. A. popularizes B. encourages C. stimulates D. accompanies

10. A. temper B. mistrust C. anger D. worry

11. A. trustworthy B. funny C. wrong D. interesting

12. A. await B. abandon C. allow D. alleviate

13. A. tribe B. country C. reputation D. race

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Samsung has launched a high-end “phablet”，that competes with BlackBerry on security features prized by business users, while out-innovating Apple with an iris-scanning feature.

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The Galaxy Note 7 is being introduced against a backdrop of ____1____ smartphone sales growth that the South Korean company has handled better than its rivals, with its mobile sales last month __2______its best quarterly results in more than two years.

The Note 7 smartphone, with its supersized 5. 7-inch screen, is the first mass-market Android phone to ____3____ a retina scanner. ____4____ unlocking users’ phones, the iris scanning can also be used to authenticate purchases through the Samsung Pay service.

David Lowes，Samsung Europe senior vice-president，said the company wanted to “ show that we are the mobile company that takes ___5_____really seriously”.

The focus on security ___6_____ Black Berry’s efforts to reinvigorate its enterprise handset business by____7____ “the world’s most secure Android smartphone” last week.

Samsung also hopes to____8____ younger users with entertainment features such as

HDR video streaming, while changes to the camera make it easier to take selfies with one hand.

The company is ____9____ users who ‘‘have found a work-life blend”，according to Mr. Lowes. “Previously at Samsung we maybe focused very much on

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the technology or durability parts of the device，but now I think we’ve brought the __10______ in as well，” he added•

Differentiating its products on more than just the strength of its technology is becoming

___11_____important for Samsung, as it faces growing competition in the Android market and the continuing ____12____from the iPhone9s superior app offerings.

Privately owned Chinese group Huawei has ____13____ from producing cheap white-label phones to launching its own premium handsets, and has publicly proclaimed its desire to unseat Apple and Samsung in global ____14____sales.

Fellow Chinese company Xiaomi is also looking to _____15___overseas，and recently bought some 1,500 patents from Microsoft to boost its ability to fend off lawsuits.

1. A. increasing B. slowing C. decending D. rising

2. A. encouraging B. driving C. pushing D. raising

3. A. introduce B. market C. install D. feature

4. A. Rather than B. Except for C. Other than D. As well as

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5. A. security B. production C. sales D. service

6. A. reflects B. echoes C. responds D. showcases

7. A. launching B. releasing C. relieving D. pushing

8. A. absorb B. attract C. focus D. seduce

9. A. attempting. B. targeting C. producing D. establishing

10. A. ability B. creativity C. desirability. reality

11. A. increasingly B. sharply C. decreasingly D. largely

12.A. challenge B. confrontation C. battle D. war

13. A. enrolled B. graduated C. researched D. explored

14. A. smartphone B. television C. computer D. scanner

15. A. reach B. expand C. open D. enlarge

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The number of calories eaten in Britain is being undercounted by up to 50 per cent, creating confusion over growing obesity levels.

The Behavioral Insights Team (BIT), a part-privatised government agency, said national surveys are not ___1_____ the changes in the way food is eaten, particularly snacking outside the home.

‘‘ Such a large _____2___ of calorie intake could misinform the policy debate and lead to less effective strategies to _____3___ the current national obesity crisis.”

It ___4_____ that people are likely to under-report the amount they eat, both deliberately and unconsciously, and that fewer overweight people are ____5____ recording the amount they eat in surveys.

BIT questioned the 40-year trend in official statistics that has shown a steep___6_____ in calorie consumption, even as obesity has increased.

Obesity in the UK is the highest it has ever been and is putting a growing ___7____ on the finances of the National Health Service, its head, Simon Stevens, has said, because of the

_____8___of treating obesity-related illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes.

He has repeatedly____9____ the government to take measures to combat obesity and has

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____10____the food and drink industry for using too much sugar.

The government has said it will___11_____a sugar tax on sugary carbonated drinks in 2018

and is planning to publish a strategy to __12______childhood obesity.

The food and drink industry has tried to deflect criticism by pointing to the official data which implies that people are getting fatter___13_____they are exercising less.

The report refutes this, saying that reductions in physical activity do not provide a realistic

____14____ for the rise in obesity rates over the last 40 years”.

Its findings imply that calorie consumption has not decreased significantly over time and that attempts to get people to exercise _____15___ should not distract from the central message that people need to eat less in order to lose weight.

1. A. avoiding B. capturing C. making D. illustrating

2. A. underestimate B. underachievement C. understatement D.

understanding

3. A. change

B. combat C. cause D. face

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4. A. said B. told C. added D. informed

5. A. gladly B. willingly C. accurately D. carefully

6. A. rise B. decline C. reach D. position

7. A. task B. trouble C. burden D. question

8. A. value B. cost C. price D. profit

9. A. called in B. called on C. called off D. called out

10. A. asked B. criticized C. urged D. punished

11. A. introduce B. put C. lay D. issue

12. A. tackle B. lighten C. manage D. kill

13. A. while B. when C. after D. because

14. A. state B. explanation C. reason D. fact

15. A. willingly B. regularly C. less D. more

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More than a third of international students say they are now less likely to study at a UK university following last month’s vote to leave the EU，a survey has found.

Of 1,014 students____1____this month by Hobsons International, a careers advisory service, 30 per cent said they were less likely to study in the UK, ____2____6% said they would definitely not study in the UK as a result of the vote.

Many UK universities have embarked on ___3_____ expansion plans that are reliant on high fees from overseas students, who typically pay twice as much as ___4_____ students. Hobson’s said 83 per cent of respondents were from outside the EU.

Income from international students is forecast to reach £4. 2bn in the next academic year and £4. 6bn in 2017 - 2018，and is the biggest____5____ of revenue growth for universities, according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Universities increased their spending on new buildings 43 per cent in the past six months compared with the previous year. _____6___ have been awarded for £ 1.5bn of projects, five of which are worth more than £ 50m each. A____7____£ 2bn of contracts is planned between 2017 and 2020, according to Barbour ABI, the construction analysts.

Some students cited a less welcoming environment and a ( n) ____8____ in racist attacks since the referendum. One respondent said People have become so racist

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and with all the ongoing circumstances, I’d not feel_____9___ there. ’’

Reported hate crimes rose 57 per cent in the weekend after the referendum, and the National Police Chiefs’ Council said last week that 6，293 such _____10___ had been reported to the police between mid-June and mid-July.

Jeremy Cooper, managing director of Hobsons in Europe, said Market conditions for international student recruitment look set to toughen and universities need to send a clear

__11______that the UK welcomes international students, as well as providing practical guidance and support.”

Almost two-thirds of students surveyed felt it would become____12____ for them to obtain a visa, while almost half_____13___ it would become more difficult to get a job in the UK after graduating.

Among ___14_____ who said (英国脱欧）made it more likely that they would come to the UK to study, 43 per cent said it was____15____ the fall in the value of the pound would make it cheaper.

1. A. investigated B. surveyed C. found D. inquired

2. A. when B. as C. while D. since

3. A. ambitious

B. available C. accessible

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D. affordable

4. A. domestic B. international C. internal D. external

5. A. source B. origin C. resource D. root

6. A. Deals B. Businesses C. Plans D. Contracts

7. A. little B. further C. more D. few

8. A. decline B. increase C. drop D. addition

9. A. depressed B. dangerous C. safe D. excited

10. A. crimes B. incidents C. affairs D. events

11. A. reminder B. report C. message D. research

12. A. easier B. impossible C. harder D. more likely

13. A. expected B. forecast C. warmed D. imagined

14. A. those B. these C. themselves D. universities

15. A. as B. since C. for D. because

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For a field supposedly starved of talent, data science seems to have been minting（造就）a lot of new experts in a hurry.

The depth of interest was on display this week in San Francisco, where 1,600 people

_____1___ for a data science summit ____2____ by Turi, a company run by University of Washington machine learning professor Carlos Guestrin.

Mr. Guestrin argues that all software applications will need inbuilt intelligence within five years, making data scientists ——people trained to analyse large bodies of information 一 key workers in this____3____ “cognitive” technology economy. Whether or not his argument is right, there is ____4____ a core of critical applications that ____5____ machine learning, led by recommendation programmes, fraud detection systems, forecasting tools and applications for predicting customer behaviour.

The adaptation of what was until recently the preserve of research scientists into production- grade business applications could point to a ___6_____ change in corporate competitiveness. The companies ____7____ their skills in data science and machine learning at the Turi event — including Uber, Pinterest and Quora — were all born in the digital era.

Some companies that grew up in the analogue (模拟数据的)world, such as Walmart，are also _____8___ massively in this field, says Anthony Goldbloom, chief

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executive of Kaggle, a company that runs online data science competitions. But he predicts that they are unlikely ever to catch up with Amazon and its like, which have a ____9____ start and are moving fast. Repeated across different sectors, that could point to wholesale change in industry leadership as intelligent systems take a more central role.

One factor weighing on many traditional companies will be the high cost of mounting a serious machine-learning operation. Netflix is estimated to ___10_____$ 150m a year on a single

___11_____— its movie recommendation system — and the total bill is probably four times that once all its uses of the technology are taken into ____12____, says a person familiar with its

applications.

Many companies that were born digital — particularly internet outfits that have a lot of real time customer interactions to mine — are all-in ____13____ it comes to data science. Pinterest， for instance, ___14_____ more than 100 machine learning models that could be applied to different classes of problems, and it constantly deals with requests from managers eager to use this resource to _____15___ their business problems, says Jure Leskovec, its chief scientist.

1. A. turned up B. turned down C. turned in D. turned out

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2. A. created B. organized C. opened D. popularized

3. A. increasing B. rising C. ascending D. emerging

4. A. already B. rarely C. nearly D. almost

5. A. consist of B. come from C. depend on D. lead to

6. A. minor B. profound C. little D. neutral

7. A. showing off B. showing around C. showing through D. showing up

8. A. investing B. pouring C. benefiting D. drawing

9. A. head B. first C. late D. last

10. A. cost B. spend C. take D. consume

11. A. machine B. program C. application D. project

12. A. thinking B. account C. being D. imagination

13. A. while B. as C. when D. until

14. A. produces B. sells C. introduces D. maintains

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15. A. cause B. tackle C. keep D. face

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There are Methuselahs (年岁极高的老人)among us. These aged wonders of the natural world do not stalk the earth but glide through Arctic waters. Scientists surveying Greenland sharks，previously thought to live up to 200 years, found that they have far___1_____ lifespans.

One specimen was calculated, give or take a century, to be ___2_____400 years old, born more than a century before the U. S. was founded.

The discovery, reported last week in the journal Science y is a record for a vertebrate (脊柱动

物）, and potentially gives help to those____3____ the secrets of longevity. Anti-ageing enthusiasts insist that life is merely the absence of the processes that lead to death, and that human lifespan could be____4____ dramatically. Their philosophy is to treat ageing as a disease ： treat the disease and life need not end.

Sharks and rays usually ____5____ their ages through the calcium deposits laid down each year in hard structures such as fins, but Greenland sharks, the largest fish in northern waters, have no such ____6____. Instead, researchers, presented with 28 females caught accidentally in

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fishing nets, looked to sharks’ eye lenses. Tissues formed in the lens at birth remain unchanged； its radiocarbon (a radioactive isotope of carbon) content can be____7____to the known levels of radiocarbon in the marine environment stretching back 500 years. In effect, a shark’s eye lens contains a radiocarbon time-stamp of its birth.

An international team，led by academics at the University of Copenhagen, showed that the largest sharks — one stretched to 5 m ——were generally the oldest, with one ____8____ at about 392 years old. The females are estimated to reach sexual maturity at 156. Their eyes also

____9____a sobering window on human history: the lenses of the youngest fishes contained a

“bomb pulse”，a distinctive radiocarbon signature ____10____ nuclear weapons testing.

The study intones，rightly, that we should guard these centenarians of the deep; their leisurely ____11____of maturity and reproduction has obvious consequences for conservation. But it also shows there are potentially many longer-lived species than_____12___, raising questions anew about whether there really is any natural bar to humans living for centuries. After all, life expectancy has been rising for decades _____13___ we conquer the challenges — malnutrition, disease, war, mishap — that hasten our passing. Three centuries ago, a person would be hard pushed to____14____ 40; some scientists think those born today stand a fighting____15____

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of reaching 150.

1. A. shorter B. longer C. smaller D. bigger

2. A. rarely B. barely C. constantly D. nearly

3. A. paying attention to B. searching for C. dedicating to D. reaching for

4. A. expanded B. stretched C. extended D. kept

5. A. conceal B. reveal C. exhibit D. illustrate

6. A. structures B. parts C. vessels D. functions

7. A. exposed B. matched C. opposed D. related

8. A. calculated B. valued C. dated D. evaluated

9. A. give B. show C. build D. provide

10. A. resulting from B. resulting in C. leading to D. relying on

11. A. rate B. ratio C. pace D. chance

12. A. humans B. animals C. species D. organisms

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13. A. for B. although C. after D. as

14. A. reach B. arrive C. get D. experience

15. A. goal B. dream C. chance D. aim

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Where does the drive to succeed come from? And if it ____1____ exceptional achievement

(as defined by external norms such as power, status and wealth) does that have to go ___2_____ with being a troubled person?

The latest evidence suggests that genes play little part and that nurture (后天培养)is

_____3___, whether it be carrot or stick. In my case, _____4___, purely because I was the only

boy with three sisters, I was treated completely differently by my father. Despite my repeated

___5_____ at school, he constantly encouraged me to see myself as clever and I eventually did OK. He gave no such ____6____ to my sisters in their academic careers (fortunately, my mum did).

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I would go so far as to say that, had I been __7______ at conception（受孕）

with one of my sisters, she would be writing these words. Each person’s

___8_____ history, starting before birth, sets them on particular ____9____, explaining why brothers and sisters differ.

At the simplest level, performance is nurtured through teaching — for good or ill. I can teach my son his tables(乘法 口诀表）but, ____10____, if I am a pickpocket by ____11____, show him how to do that.

Then there is modelling. My driving is shamefully disobeying traffic regulations ( _____12___my father’s example) — perhaps my children will model that or perhaps they will______13__ my wife’s hard-working lawful approach. That ____14____our family vigor — perhaps my son will follow me； my daughter her mother. Which brings us to identification, in which the child makes the parent’s ____15____a part of themselves.

1. A. results in B. picks up C. makes of D. grows up

2. A. face to face spot

B. step by step C. hand in hand D. on the

3. A. serious B. satisfactory C. major D. critical

4. A. as a result

otherwise

B. for instance C. however D.

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5. A. victory B. failure C. performance D. practice

6. A. encouragement B. speech C. improvement D. honor

7. A. lived B. related C. compared D. exchanged

8. A. mature B. important C. especial D. unique

9. A. paths B. accesses C. traces D. zones

10. A. additionally B. consequently C. equally D. interestingly

11. A. profession B. nature C. birth D. accident

12. A. set up B. learned from C. took out D. returned to

13. A. support B. oppose C. dislike D. copy

14. A. focuses on

follows up

B. depends on C. starts up D.

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In office jobs，there’s one foolproof way to avoid being burdened with certain

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time-consuming tasks: develop a _____1___ for being rubbish at them. Act angrily and shocked around the coffee machine, or a jammed printer, and you’ll soon find nobody asks you to ___2_____ it next time around. There’s a broader (and less passive-aggressive) point here, about managing expectations in general: they’re ____3____ we’re judged by — so setting them too high is a recipe for being too ____4____.

Hofstadter’s law, created by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, states that things always take longer than you think — “ even when you take into _____5___ Hofstadter’s Law ” .

___6____: you just will underestimate how much time a task requires, even when you know that’s what you always do and try to plan ___7____. The best solution, if possible, is regularly

scheduled blocks of hours, used as buffer（缓冲）zones. When it comes to planning your work or arranging meetings, ____8____ them as if they didn’t exist. Then, when they roll around, use them to finish whatever you’re____9____ on.

A uniquely tricky cause of busyness is the ____10____ of procrastination(拖延症) — not leaving them too late, but doing them too___11_____, just to have them done with, even though waiting might have meant less effort overall. That’s how you ___12_____wasting a whole day on small things, in search of that satisfying sensation of having cleared the desks — when all the while, more important stuff is ___13_____. The secret truth, especially ____14____ to e-mail, is that neglecting

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something for a few days often makes it go away entirely: people find____15____ solutions to their problems.

1. A. container B. reputation C. habit D. project

2. A. do away with B. be satisfied with C. be angry with D. deal with

3. A. what B. that C. anything D. nothing

4. A. casual B. crowded C. busy D. stressful

5. A. survey B. account C. research D. belief

6. A. In summary B. In other words C. For example D. In addition

7. A. diligently B. carefully C. previously D. accordingly

8. A. think B. construct C. control D. treat

9. A. behind B. late C. ahead D. dull

10. A. key B. problem C. opposite D. rear

11. A. advanced B. backward C. early D. front

12. A. end up

B. begin with C. slow down D. cope with

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13. A. getting up B. setting up C. putting up D. piling up

14. A. virtual B. applicable C. useless D. enjoyable

15. A. alternative B. rapid C. qualified D. online

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How to start — and win — an argument online? Your tone is the key. I’ve sat through 10 years of online debates, and the one thing I can tell you as a fact is that, if you communicate in anger, 90% of the response you will get____1____will be just more anger, ___2_____ at you.

It doesn’t ___3_____ if what you are saying is true, factual or reasonable, because the majority of people will not be reading what you actually said. They’re just going to see the emotional pitch of your_____4___and reply in kind, instead.

I’ve seen so many __5______amazing debates go nowhere, because the person starting the debate was rightfully angry, but their ___6_____ seemingly worked as a dog whistle to attract a massive online fight. There were a couple of years when online feminism was basically a bunch of hurt, angry women — women who should have been on the_____7___side — communicating with each other only in anger, and ____8____only anger in return. Every brilliant, bright, right thing they said was___9_____.

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When you make an initial post, ___10_____this vital thing: you set the tone, and people will reply in ____11____. If a conversation starts angry, it will almost certainly ___12_____ angry, and end up with people shouting, “I RESIGN FROM THE INTERNET”，“EVERYONE GET BENT” or “YOUR MUM” , to the ____13____of no one at all.

If you are to be an effective radical (激进主义者）,you must be a(n) ____14____radical, which is, of course, the best kind of radical. And if you can be gently humorous, you are doing the whole world a____15____.

1. A. in short B. in case C. in appearance D. in return

2. A. directed B. got C. laughed D. rushed

3. A. mean B. matter C. count D. pay

4. A. response B. point C. communication D. life

5. A. brilliantly B. simply C. potentially D. mechanically

6. A. sense B. logic C. feeling D. tone

7. A. same B. similar C. different D. various

8. A. creating B. reducing C. enhancing D. arising

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9. A. deleted B. ignored C. identified D. appreciated

10. A. replace B. remember C. recall D. strengthen

11. A. humour B. anger C. kind D. order

12. A. maintain B. contain C. reveal D. continue

13. A. sake B. liberty C. benefit D. responsibility

14. A. polite B. free C. generous D. interesting

15. A. harm B. contribution C. democracy D. favour

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Should we dismiss an entire good idea just because some people abuse it? You know how this

one goes： a story is published about someone with 17 children who’s living on welfare，and “getting” £38，000 a year，and the piece goes on to discuss the total welfare bill, before ___1_____ that, because the system is being “abused”,

___2_____ should be abolished (废除).

The thing is, if we talked about abolishing everything that was abused, then where would we stop? We would have abolished the Houses of Parliament during

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the political scandals. Likewise schools，given the amount of abuse that has happened there，both state and ____3____.

We’d be talking about abolishing

marriage, because women are abused, in_____4___. Likewise parenthood, given the numbers of parents who abuse their ____5____.

The simple truth is, people will abuse any ____6____. There’s a proportion of humanity that will always play the system, whatever it is. That’s what humans do. We’re just monkeys, ____7____ a stick to poke in a hole to get ants. Or monkeys who will ____8____ someone else’s stick, and ants.

The question is: is the fundamental concept that is being ____9____ good? Right? Moral?

You don’t just ____10____when people abuse a system. Instead, you make the system better. Anyone wanting to ____11____a perfectly decent idea — indeed, a necessary, moral and transformative one — because someone else took ___12_____ of it is basically saying, “I am too _____13___ to do all the admin to improve this. I’m busy with paperwork. I am staying away from management change in ___14_____ of SETTING FIRE TO EVERYTHING AND RUNNING AWAY. ” We must never ____15____anyone who confuses “an idea” with “how that idea was predictably abused by a tiny percentage of the population”.

1. A. deciding B. conducting C. approving D. concluding

2. A. welfare B. organization C. bill

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D. interest

3. A. national B. private C. regional D. global

4. A. issues B. partnerships C. relationships D. conditions

5. A. students B. partners C. children D. lovers

6. A. fact B. system C. power D. relation

7. A. looking for B. looking after C. looking into D. looking at

8. A. move B. steal C. sweep D. adopt

9. A. updated B. improved C. employed D. abused

10. A. pick out B. take in C. get rid of D. give in

11. A. give up B. revenge on C. give rise to D. participate

12. A. use B. benefit C. operation D. advantage

13. A. cautious B. moral C. lazy D. conscious

14. A. favour B. exchange C. opposition D. judgment

15. A. hear from B. listen to C. see through D. look to

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Companies like Arjuna are beginning to take action to deal with pay inequality，but it doesn’t tell the full story of women9s experience.

Microsoft’s chief executive，Satya Nadella，earned bad fame for his____1____ that women should not bother to ask for raises. ____2____，he suggested in October 2014，they should have faith that the system will reward them appropriately. Stopping from asking for a raise，he added，is actually good.

When his remarks were greeted with anger, Nadella backpedalled at the speed of light. Less than a year later, Microsoft was _____3___ by a former employee, Katie Moussouris, now chief policy officer at Hacker One, claiming gender prejudice.

Moussouris ____4____ that she was only one of a number of women at Microsoft who

____5____ less than their male colleagues. Moussouris also mentioned that men received preferential treatment in ____6____ and systematically received more favorable job reviews.

There is no way to know whether Moussouris’ claims are____7____ ，because Microsoft does not disclose any data about the ____8____ to which men and women are paid differently for doing similar jobs. That may soon change, if Arjuna Capital succeeds in placing a ( n ) ___9_____before Microsoft’s shareholders and

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convincing enough of them to vote in favor of it，thus requiring the company to

___10_____

disclose that information for the first time and helping women

make up their minds to require the ____11____ of the gender pay gap.

Arjuna, the activist arm of Baldwin Brothers, an investment advisory firm, is ___12_____top technology firms, in search of precisely this information. Shareholders of eBay, Expedia, Facebook and Google will vote on proposals that would ___13_____ the creation of reports detailing the percentage pay ____14____ between male and female employees, spelling out both firms’ policies，in an attempt to address how the companies would set about closing or____15____ that gap, and specific targets.

1. A. dishonesty B. advice C. declaration D. edition

2. A. Initially B. Therefore C. Nevertheless D. Instead

3. A. accused B. praised C. cheated D. threatened

4. A. claimed B. lied C. required D. guaranteed

5. A. spent B. earned C. saved D. wasted

6. A. movements B. expenses C. promotions D. resources

7. A. secure B. valuable C. extensive D. accurate

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8. A. content B. extent C. discussion D. feedback

9. A. resolution B. emphasis C. challenge D. transform

10. A. socially B. quietly C. personally D. publicly

11. A. improvement B. enjoyment C. reduction D. emission

12. A. referring B. pointing C. targeting D. proving

13. A. put out B. result in C. set up D. rely on

14. A. equality B. dissatisfaction C. protest D. gap

15. A. widening B. narrowing C. communicating D. showing

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Experts warn of coming wave of serious cybercrime ( .网络犯罪) Traditional defenses such as installing antivirus software and monitoring accounts for unusual activity have offered little

_____1___against Eastern European criminal gangs whose programmers write evil code

_____2___at specific targets or buy inexpensive hacking (黑客) tools online.

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____3____ with such tools, criminals can check for system ____4____ in wireless networks, computer servers or stores5 card readers.

Nearly two dozen companies have been hacked and more almost certainly will fall ___5_____ in the months ahead, the FBI recently warned consumers, according to an official who was not authorized to speak____6____. The names of all of the compromised firms have not been

____7___, nor is it clear how many shoppers have had their credit card numbers and other personal data stolen.

Banks, consumers and policymakers have been___8_____to address the growing sophistication of cybercriminals. Only 11 percent of businesses have adopted industry standard_____9___measures, said a recent report by Verizon Business Solutions, and outside experts say even these “best practices” ___10_____ what’s needed to defeat fierce hackers.

“You’re going to see more and more people __11_____ this，” said Nicolas Christin，a security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. “ If you just saw your neighbor win the lottery, even if you weren’t_____12___ in the lottery before, you may go out and buy a ticket. ”

Cybercrime cost U. S. companies an average of $11.5 million in 2015, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute, up 26 percent ____13____ with the previous year. The ____14____ on consumers can last for years, as they are left weak to

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___15_____ identity theft (盗窃).

1. A. measure B. resistance C. suggestion D. action

2. A. meant B. aimed C. guarded D_ looked

3. A. Armed B. Fetched C. Permitted D. Filled

4. A. advantages B. safety C. crime D. weaknesses

5. A. hacker B. participant C. advisor D. victim

6. A. publicly B. violently C. vigorously D. urgently

7. A. shown B. exposed C. revealed D. concealed

8. A. swift B. alert C. slow D. hard

9. A. security B. growth C. completion D. consideration

10. A. live up to B. make use of C. add up to D. fall short of

11. A, trying B. opposing C. denying D. adjusting

12. A. keen B. interested C. melted D. participated

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13. A. associated B. connected C. compared D. satisfied

14. A. effect B. cost C. pressure D. amount

15. A. promising B. guilty C. compulsory D. potential

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Walking while texting could lead to fines of up to $50 or 15 days9 imprisonment as state lawmaker warns of the dangers of ‘‘distracted walking”. Jared Schumacher is one of hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans who___1_____ use electronic devices to text，listen to music or do other tasks as they walk outdoors.

If a “distracted walking” measure recently proposed by a state assemblywoman becomes law, the Trenton man and others like him could face ____2____ or even jail time.

“I admit that I’m usually listening to music, talking on my phone or texting while I’m walking around,” Schumacher,20,said while ____3____ to a text as he walked along a street in the state capital last weekend.

Experts say distracted walking is a growing _____4___,as people of all ages become more

____5____ on electronic devices for personal and professional matters. They also

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note pedestrian deaths have been ____6____ in

recent years. In 2005,11 % of

to 15% in 2014.

all US fatalities involved pedestrians, but that number rose

The rise in deaths coincides (相符合）with states _____7___ bills that target pedestrians and/or bicyclists. For instance, a bill in Hawaii would fine someone $250 if he or she were to cross the street while ___8_____ an electronic device. Similar bills have failed in states including Arkansas, Illinois, Nevada and New York.

“Thus far, no states have enacted a law ___9_____ targeting distracted bicyclists or pedestrians,” said Douglas Shinkle, transportation program director for the

National Conference of State Legislatures. But he added ____10____to introduce legislation every year”.

that “ a few states

The measure recently introduced by New Jersey assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt would

___11_____ walking while texting and bar pedestrians on public roads from using electronic communication devices unless they are hands- ___12_____.

Lawbreakers would face fines of up to $50, 15 days imprisonment or both, which is the same punishment as jaywalking. Half of the fire would be distributed to safety education about the

___13_____of walking and texting, said Lampitt, a Democrat.

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Some see the proposal as a( n ) ____14____ government overreach, while others say they

understand Lampitt’s reasoning. But most agree that people need to be made ___15_____ of the issue.

1. A. naughtily B. fashionably C. routinely D. rarely

2. A. opposition B. cruelty C. fines D. struggle

3. A. turning

responding

B. committing C. shifting D.

4. A. problem B. tragedy C. passion D. key

5. A. mature B. dependent C. troublesome D. active

6. A. enhancing B. arousing C. rising D. declining

7. A. paying B. denying C. voting D_ introducing

8. A. operating B. texting C. adopting D. installing

9. A. understandably B. specifically C. permissively D. fiercely

10. A. continue

B. hate C. refuse D. return

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11. A. promote B. ban C. dismiss D. reject

12. A. full B. flexible C. wide D. free

13. A. shortcomings

opportunities

B. desires C. dangers D.

14. A. unnecessary B. proper C. advanced D. shameful

15. A. aware

knowledgeable

B. wise C. noticeable D.

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Britons working longer hours with no gain in productivity, study finds. More than two- thirds of employees say they are spending longer at work but only 10% say they are more productive. More than a quarter believe their ____1____ has declined in the last two years, the study found.

Most British workers are spending longer at their workplace for little or no gain in productivity, according to a landmark study being ____2____ this week. More than two-thirds of employees say they are working longer hours than two years ago, but only 10% believe they are more productive.

The study of attitudes to work by the Smith Institute, a UK thinktank, also found that more than a quarter of staff believed their productivity had ____3____ over the

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period. Coming only a week after the Office for Budget Responsibility ( OBR) ____4____its forecast for productivity,

the study will fuel concerns that British businesses are____5____cheap labour to work more hours in an effort to increase output.

The study found that nine in 10 workers said they believed productivity was important and almost 80% said their employer ___6_____ it, at least sometimes. But they said managers usually sought productivity gains through job____7____ or simply doing the same tasks at a faster pace. Only a minority of employees___8_____ higher productivity with better pay and conditions.

The report said: “There is a clear message that employees feel that they should receive a fair share from delivering higher productivity in pay___9_____, but they feel pessimistic that this will

be the ____10____.”

Productivity is based on a measure of the hours worked to produce a specific ___11_____. It fell in the last quarter of 2015, bringing to an end nine months of ___12_____, the OBR said.

Without ___13_____ improvements in the UK’s output per hour worked, it said, a recovery was further away. The government has promised to improve productivity, but its latest plan was criticized as “a vague collection of ____14____

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policies” by a committee of MPs. The OBR, which is the Treasury^ independent economic forecaster, said before the budget that wage growth would be lower over the next five years than the 2.2%

____15____ predicted, at an average 2% .

1. A. work B. fate C. ability D. productivity

2. A. relieved B. released C. reviewed D. concealed

3. A. declined B. grown C. improved D. worsened

4. A. strengthened B. fulfilled C. downgraded D. drafted

5. A. coming up with B. relying on C. committing to D. taking delight

6. A. exchanged B. promoted C. appreciated D. measured

7. A. cuts B. increases C. stability D. balance

8. A. negotiated B. associated C. communicated D. controlled

9. A. decisions B. revisions C. terms D. editions

10. A. matter B. issue C. case D. trouble

11. A. response B. return C. interest D. output

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12. A. improvements B. conflicts C. struggles D. decreases

13. A. revolutionary B. sustainable C. enjoyable D. painful

14. A. continuing B. profitable C. existing 15. A. previously B. excellently C. blindly (三）阅读理解 (I )完形填空

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D. fair

D. wisely

D 9. A 10. C

C 9. A 10. B

C 9. B 10. B

11. A 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. C

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1. B 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. B 9. B 10. C

11. A 12. A 13. B 14. A 15. B

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9. B 10. B

9. C 10. A

9. A 10. B

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1. B 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. A

11. C 12. A 13. D 14. A 15. C

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9. A 10. C

9. A 10. C

9. B 10. B

1. D 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. D

11. A 12. D 13. C 14. A 15. B

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9. A 10. D

9. A 10. D

9. B 10. A

9. C 10. C

11. D 12. A 13. B 14. C 15. A

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