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| 填空题 | Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.  The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the need for change and done something about it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity of the communities to which they provide information. It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk______ losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support. Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial ______ minorities, the paper has put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The ______ underlying reason for the change is that for information to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the______ same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ ______ content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content______ audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs. ______ Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles. The audit results from ______ improvement in the frequency of majority representation and ______ their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a ______ result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle Times Company to win the Personal Journal Optimas Award for excellence in managing change. |
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| 填空题 | Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank. Example: More people of tuberculosis (结核病)than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a white. During the early stages of the ______ industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh deaths in ______ Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From ______ now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, ______ saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and ______ America dropped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics(抗菌素) strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries. Medical ______ researchers declared victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of ______ infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in many ______ places where it had never been away, it grew better. The ______ World Heath Organization estimates that 1. 7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a______ year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries. |
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| 填空题 | Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (^) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.  A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which arenothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new ______ one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity which ______ are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge ______ of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions written by ______ eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very ______ dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today - the poor can still______ be numbered in millions. The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised ______ land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings ______ it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a ______ Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them ______ flooding out again to the suburbs. |
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| 填空题 | Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank.  Culture refers to the social heritage of a people—the learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a population or society, include the expression of these patters in ______ material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture— ______ abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional arrangements—and material culture—physical object like ______ cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary ______ speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another ______ language—the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, ______ literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world ______ of experience we share with other members of our group. Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind ______ of map for relating to others. Consider how you feel your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh ______ at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, ______ ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know a person’s culture, we can understand and even predict a good deal of his behavior. |
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| 填空题 | Until recently, dyslexia and other reading problems were a mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too many kids passed through school without master the printed page. ______ Some were treated as mentally deficient; many were left Functionally illiterate（文盲的）, unable to ever meet their potential. But in the last several years, there’s been a revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia. ______ Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to watch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown that reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect,______ faulty wiring in the brain — not lazy, stupidity or a poor home ______ environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia ______ is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problem for some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have also discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexics are boys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well — ______ and not getting help. At same time, educational researchers have come up ______ with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having trouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifying children at risk before they get discouraged by year of ______ frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the message to parents that they should be on the alert for the first signs of potential problems It’s an urgent mission. Mass literacy is a relative ne ______ social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to be good readers in order to earn a living. But in the Information Age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and ______ Understand increasingly complex material. |
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| 填空题 | Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard: For the last three blanks you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Compound Dictation The human body is a remarkable food processor. As an adult, you may consumer ______ a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight. You are ______harnessing and consuming energy through the intricate ______of your body in order to remain in energy balance. to ______ a given body weight, your energy input must balance your energy output. However, sometimes the ______ energy balance is upset, and your ______ body weight will either fall or ______. The term body image refers to the mental image we have of our won physical appearance, and ______. Research has revealed that about 40 percent of adult men and 55 percent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current body weight ______. At the college level, a study found that 85 percent of both male and female first-year students desired to change their body weight. ______. Thinness is currently an attribute that females desire highly. Males generally desire muscularity. The vast majority of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for the sake of appearance; most want to lose excess body fat while a smaller percentage of individuals actually want to gain weight. |
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| 填空题 | Energy service contractors profit by taking a part of clients’ ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Many environmentalists maintain the view that conservation has much to do with ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | The strongest incentives for energy conservation will derive from______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Rodney Brooks says that it will be possible for robots to work with humans as a result of the development of ______ | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | The most significant breakthrough predicted by Bill Joy will be an inexhaustible green energy source that can’t be used to make______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to Geoffrey Miller, science will offer a more practical, universal and rewarding moral framework in place of______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the reason why older mothers’ children tend to be obese remains ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to Michael Symonds, one factor contributing to the obesity epidemic is decrease of ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | When two heavy people get married, chances of their children getting fat increase, because obesity is ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to Gallagher and Skenazy, children who are watchful will be better able to stay away from ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Being able to find out where a child is anytime helps lessen parents’ ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Nowadays with the help of GPS cell phones, parents can, from a distance, track their children’s Movements______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Wright Vigar’s practice of allowing for more flexible working hours not only benefits the company but helps improve employees’ ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | With fast, wireless internet connections, employees can still be ______ while traveling. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Single mother Lynne Hargreaves decided to work at home mainly to ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Wright Vigar’s practice of allowing for more flexible working hours not only benefits the company but helps improve employees’ ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | With fast, wireless internet connections, employees can still be ______ while traveling. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Single mother Lynne Hargreaves decided to work at home mainly to ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to Effron, if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected, there would also have been a negative effect on ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | It is possible that the Obama effect will be short-lived if there is a change in people's ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | The worst possible aspect of the Obama effect is that people could ignore his race altogether and continue to hold on to their old racial ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Compared with younger ones, older societies are less inclined to ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | The predicted intergenerational warfare is unlikely because most of the older people themselves ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to ______. | 查看答案 |
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| 填空题 | Most young boys have been trained to believe that men who show tender feelings are considered to be______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Some men believe that if they expressed their emotions openly they might ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | According to the author, men who suppress their emotions may develop ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Men who observe traditional masculine norms are said to derive less satisfaction from ______. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | When males get angry, they can become ______ or even commit violence. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | There is no denying that you ______ (越仔细越好) in dealing with this matter. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Only when I reached my thirties ______ (我才意识到读书是不能被忽视的). | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Much ______ (使研究人员感到惊讶), the outcome of the experiment was far better than they had expected. | 查看答案 |
| 填空题 | Oh, my, I can’t find my key; ______ (我一定是把它忘在哪儿了). | 查看答案 |