Can we ever _____ hunger from the world？ A. elimi

A.we’ve ever given before.

B.but I got nothing out of it.

C.and there are two hundred and sixteen thousand employees worldwide.

D.I am afraid we can go no further.

A.we’ve ever given before.

B.but I got nothing out of it.

C.or it will have to look elsewhere.

D.I am afraid we can go no further.

llowing counter-offer.

Subject: Counter-offer

Dear Sirs,

We have been very pleased with your product, as you know．However, we find that we can obtain a price of $4．00 per hundred with a local firm．This is fifty cents per hundred lower than your price.

If you can see your way clear to meeting these figures we would be pleased to place with you an order that will carry us for the rest of this year．That order is likely to be one of the largest that we have ever placed with you.

Sincerely,

Extinction is a difficult concept to grasp. It is an 26 _eternal____ concept. It’s not at all like the killing of individuals lifeforms that can be renewed through normal processes of reproduction. Nor is it simply 27 _diminishing____ numbers. Nor is it damage that can somehow be remedied or for which some substitute can be found. Nor is it something that simply affects our own generation. Nor is it something that could be remedies by some supernatural power. IT is rather an 28 __absolute____ and final act for which there is no remedy on earth or in heaven. A species once extinct is gone forever. However many generations 29___succeed__ us in coming centuries, none of them will ever see this species that we extinguish.

Not only are we bring about the extinction of life 30 _on a vast scale___, we are also making the land and the air and the sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being destroyed. 31__As regards___ basic natural resources, not only are the nonrenewable resources being 32_used up____ in a frenzy(疯狂) of processing, consuming , and 33_disposing____, but we are also ruining much of our renewable resources, such as the very soil itself on which terrestrial(地球上的) life depends.

The change that is taking place on earth and in our minds is one of the greatest changes ever to take place in human affairs, perhaps the greatest, since what we are talking about is not simply another historical change or cultural 34__modification______, but a change of geological and biological as well as psychological order of 35__magnitude___

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

It is the {weirder; weirdest; weird} thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay {connecting; connected; to connect} — with anyone.

Should you {shoot; mail; give} off an email？ Tap out a text？ Post a private message on Facebook？ Write on their Facebook wall？ Skype, poke, ping or conjure them up on a digital tin can phone？

And once you reach someone, you wonder: Is he paying attention？ How do you know？ Even with the techno-ease of {uncountable; countable; countless} communication devices, conversations can still be troublesome. Questions are asked and answered {out; away; within} of order. Instructions and directions go half-read. Meetings are botched. Feelings are hurt.

ually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: more times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, self-improvement.

Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he's honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

Similarly, couples who choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they feel like and sleep as late as they wish. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three-day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.

Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buy that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. The moment we understand that fun does not bring happiness, we begin to live differently. The effect can be, quite literally, life-transforming.

According to the writer, people who think of happiness as fun ______.

A．are somewhat denied the chances of gaining happiness

B．will remain single although they may go dating

C．must know what true happiness is

D．should devote more time to activities

o，then they have a wrong notion of what the real，the ultimate security is. No one who is dependent on anything outside himself，upon money，power，fame or what not(难归类的事物；难描写的事物)，is or ever can be secure. Only he who possesses himself and is content with himself is actually secure. Too much is being said about the importance of adjustment and “participation in the group. ”Even cooperation. to give this thing its most favorable designation(名称，称号；指明)，is no more important than the ability to stand alone when the choice must be made between the sacrifice of one's own integrity(正直，诚实)and adjustment to or participation in group activity.

Television

Television is the greatest communication medium ever designed and operated by man. It sends into the human brain an 【B1】______ amount of opinions and information and 【B2】______ moral and artistic standards for all of us. Every minute of a television programme teaches us something. It is never neutral (中立的) 【B3】______ . For example, how and when public issues are 【B4】______ depends in large part 【B5】______ how they are treated by the television networks in entertainment 【B6】______ news and public affairs programmes. What the American people think about government and politics in 【B7】______ , as well as a favorite candidate in 【B8】______ , is largely influenced by 【B9】______ .

Unfortunately, commercial television seldom 【B10】______ anything of value to our lives. Many American express a deep hostility (敌意) 【B11】______ television because they know most TV programmes are 【B12】______ poor quality and that something these programmes are even 【B13】______ .

The question is: how can television be improved？ There are many things the ordinary 【B14】______ can do. For example, he 【B15】______ complain to his local TV stations about offensive advertising. He can 【B16】______ citizens' groups to urge local TV stations to 【B17】______ their programmes. 【B18】______ these groups should propose regular analyses of special TV commercials and programmes by educators, doctors, etc. to 【B19】______ the influence of these programmes on children and adults. Television can be our most exciting medium if we just think about 【B20】______ to improve it.

A．endless

B．ending

C．ended

D．end