1、 The country was facing difficulties financially and ____the situation was discouraging
2、 I can’t advise you what to do. You must use your own____.
3、 Sometimes they____ their students’ poor comprehension to a lack of intelligence.
4、 Gold is a precious, yellow coloured ____used for making coins, ornaments and jewelry.
5、 If you persist in doing that, none except yourself should____the consequences.
6、 He saved his daughter from the fire____ of his own life.
7、 The misty weather in London____the contact.
8、 Many automobile accidents were____careless driving.
9、 His answer was so confused that I could hardly make any____of it all.
10、 Because I don’t take any sugar in my tea, I____to forget to offer it to other people.
11、 Revolutionary developments in both observational and theoretical astronomy (took place) in the 1960’s.
12、 In the legends of the American West, Paul Bunyan’s most (treasured) possession was Babe the Blue Us, whose horns were said to span a distance of 42 ax handles.
13、 A supernova is a star that explodes and then slowly fades to less than its original (brightness).
14、 Over six million citizens of the United States collect benefits from (private) pension plans each year.
15、 Granite crystals are large enough to be seen with the (naked) eye.
16、 Having (enlisted) in the Marine Corps in August 1918, Opha May Jonnson was made a provisional sergeant a month later.
17、 The (widespread)use of X?rays for diagnostic purposes poses the risk of overexposure to radiation.
18、 The geysers, one of the most unusual phenomena in nature, is beautiful to (behold).
19、 The lymphatic system includes a network of tiny capillaries that lie (adjacent )to the fine blood vessels.
20、 Hearing Damage Doctors have known for a long time that extremely loud noises can cause he aring damage or loss. The noise can be the sound of a jet airplane or machines I n factories or loud music or other common sounds found at home and at work. A pe rson only needs to hear the noise for little more than one s***nd to be affected. An American scientist has found that using aspirin can increase the tempor ary (暂时的)hearing loss or damage from loud noise. He did an experiment using a number of students at a university who all had normal hearing. He gave them dif ferent amounts of aspirin for different periods of time, then he tested their he aring ability. He found that students who were given four grams of aspirin a day for two days suffered much greater temporary hearing loss than those who did no t use aspirin. The hearing loss was about two times as great. The scientist said millions of persons in the United States use much larger amou nts of aspirin than were used in his experiment. He said these persons face a se rious danger of suffering hearing loss from loud noise.
1Doctors have long known that____
2This passage suggests that one’s hearing____
3One conclusion you can draw from this passage is that aspirin____
4Millions of Americans are in danger of suffering hearing loss because they____
5The American scientist did his experiment in order to find____
21、 Dreams Let us begin by saying what does not cause our dreams. Our dreams do not com e from another world. They are not messages from some outside source. They are not a look into the future, either. All our dreams have something to do with our emotions, fear, longings, wishe s, needs and memories. But something on the outside may affect what we dream. If a person is hungry, or tired, or cold, his dreams may include a feeling of th is kind. If the covers on your body, such as a blanket, have slipped off your be d, you may dream that you are sleeping or resting on the ice or snow. T
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