To keep the wheels of industry turning, we produce consumer goods in endless quantities,
A. ignoring
B. collapsing
C. enduring
D. exhausting
A. ignoring
B. collapsing
C. enduring
D. exhausting
American time is “on the dot”(准确地). If something is supposed to happen at eight o'clock, it will begin at eight. Americans value promptness(准时)and may become angry if a person is more than 15 minutes late __22__ a good reason. If you know you are going to be late, call in advance and let someone know. __23__ you arrive late, you should apologize and explain why. Americans arrive __24__ time for doctors' appointments. The doctor may keep you __25__, but if you keep the doctor waiting, you may get a bill with the doctor's time!
21)、
A.for
B.waiting
C.on
D.if
E.without
22)、
A.for
B.waiting
C.on
D.if
E.without
23)、
A.For
B.Waiting
C.On
D.If
E.Without
24)、
A.for
B.waiting
C.on
D.if
E.without
25)、
A.for
B.waiting
C.on
D.if
E.without
A.wheels
B.binders
C.particles
D.sands
A.Shift
B.Crtl
C.Alt
D.Tab
So what principles should you 6 when you go out shopping? If you keep your home, your car or any valuable 7 in excellent condition, you&39;ll be saving money in the long run. Before you buy a new 8 , talk to someone who owns one .If you can, use it or borrow it to check it suits your particular purpose. Before you buy an expensive 9 , or a service, do check the price and what is on offer. If possible, choose 10 three items or three estimates.
[A]possession
[B]save
[C]best
[D]appliance
[E]material
[F]from
[G]simple
[H]with
[I]in
[J]element
[K]model
[L]item
[M]easy
[N]adopt
[O]reasonable
A.it was man’s first real invention
B.all transportation depends on it
C.every machine depends on it
D.both B and C
Passage 1
A new study finds that even mild stress can affect your ability to control your emotions. A team of neuroscientists at New York University say that their findings suggest that certain _1_ that teach people how to better control their emotions—such as those used to treat social anxiety and phobias— may not work as well during stressful situations. “We have long suspected that stress can _2_ our ability to control our emotions, but this is the first study to document how even mild stress can undercut therapies designed to keep our emotions in _3_ said senior author and psychology professor Elizabeth Phelps. “In other words, what you learn in the clinic may not be as _4_ in the real world when you’re stressed.” To help patients learn to _5_ their emotional impairment, therapists sometimes use cognitive restructuring techniques encouraging patients to alter their thoughts or approach to a situation to change their emotional response. These might include focusing on the positive or non-threatening aspects of an event or _6_ that might normally produce fear. To test how these techniques hold up in real-life situations, the team _7_ a group of 78 volunteers, who viewed pictures of snakes and spiders. Some of the pictures were paired with an electric shock, and participants _8_ developed a fear of these pictures. The subjects “reported more _9_ feelings of fear when viewing the pictures, compared with when they viewed images not paired with a shock. Next the participants were taught cognitive strategies, similar to those _10_ bytherapists and known as cognitive-behavioral therapy, to learn to diminish the fears brought on by the experiment.
A) check
B) regulate
C) eventually
D) consequences
E) impair
F) stimulus
G) bleak
H) enlisted
I) relevant
J) prescribed
K) therapies
L) confined
M) incidentally
N) intense
O) breach
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