A long time ago when a person hated his/her job, he would resign or bear it.____
Eight hundred years ago an Englishman _____.
Directions:
Two months ago, you and some former classmates decided to go for an outing to the Summer Palace during the National Day holidays. As the organizer, you are to write an email message to remind the others of:
(1)when and where to meet,
(2)what to bring, and
(3)why they have to tell you in advance whether they will come.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead. You do not need to write the address.
How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 90 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past 9 am?
Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such (1)____(innovate) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been (2) acco____ by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology, (3)____ translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those (4) p____.
This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go with it, has been shown for some time. In 1992, John Malone, chief executive of TCI, an American cable giant, welcomed the “500-channel universe.” Digital television was about to deliver everything (5)____ pizzas to people's living rooms. When the entertainment companies (6)____(try) out the technology, it worked fine-but not at a price that people were prepared to pay.
Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC (7)____ than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in (8)____(expect) ways. Eventually it will change every aspect of it, from the way cartoons are made to the way films are screened to the way people buy music. That much is clear. (9)____ nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business.
New technologies always contain within them both (10) th____ and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer, and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology.
Four years ago, Jane was twice as old as Sam. Four years on from now, Sam will be 3/4 of Jane's age. How old is Jane now?
Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such (1)____(innovate) has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been (2) acco____ by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology, (3)____ translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those (4) p____.
This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go with it, has been shown for some time. In 1992, John Malone, chief executive of TCI, an American cable giant, welcomed the “500-channel universe.” Digital television was about to deliver everything (5)____ pizzas to people's living rooms. When the entertainment companies (6)____(try) out the technology, it worked fine-but not at a price that people were prepared to pay.
Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC (7)____ than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in (8)____(expect) ways. Eventually it will change every aspect of it, from the way cartoons are made to the way films are screened to the way people buy music. That much is clear. (9)____ nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business.
New technologies always contain within them both (10) th____ and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer, and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology.
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Not too many decades ago it seemed “obvious” both to the
general public and to sociologists that modern society has
changed people’s natural relations, loosed their responsibilities 1.______
to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place 2.______
for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances. 3.______
However, in recent years a growing body of research has
revealed that the “obvious” is not true. It seems that if you are
a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your
neighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. 4.______
But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant 5.______
consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few
of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within
small, private social worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of
meaningful relationships do not differ from more and less 6.______
urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin
than do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by 7.______
developing friendships with people who share similar interests
and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,
but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Nor 8.______
are residents of large communities any likely to display 9.______
psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than are
residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do
worry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of 10.______
strangers.
Not so long ago, people talked about global warming in apocalyptic terms—imagining the Statue of Liberty up to its chin in water or an onslaught of tropical diseases in Oslo. Recently, however, advances in our understanding of climate have moved global warming from a subject for a summer disaster movie to a serious but manageable scientific and policy issue. The greenhouse effect is nothing new; it has been operating ever since the earth formed. Without it, the surface of the globe would be a frigid –20 ℃ (–4 °F), the oceans would have frozen, and no life would have developed.