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1、 and, in the general, it passes between children of the （6）_ same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in agebetween playmates to be more than five years. If, therefore, a playgroundrhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or （7）_ even just for fifty, it f

2、ollows that it has been transmitted over and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three （8）_ hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live （9）_ after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the （10）_ original wording.模拟1We live in

3、a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would say _1that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with school, including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant of science as people _2with comparable education in Western Europe.There are a

4、lot of kids who know everything about computershow to buildthem, how to take them apart, and how to write programs for games. So if you ask _3them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into creating the _4computer, you dont have faintest idea. _5The failure to understand science

5、leads to such things like the neglect of human _6creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between science and _7technology. Lots of people dont differ between the two. Science is the production of _8new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is the application

6、of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or the like. The two are really different, and people who have the faculty for one very seldom have a faculty for the others. _9Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can provide technology, its not necessarily harmfu

7、l. No society has yet earned to forecast the consequences _10 of new technology, which can be enormous. 模拟2About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning methods to prevent high risk _1pregnancies, according to a report publish

8、ing recently by the Johns Hopking University. _2The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children _3within the safest years with adequate intervals among births and limited their _4families to moderat

9、e size. This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Disease Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the

10、 high risk categories. _6The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of _7maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 18 year old; those after the _9mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four birt

11、hs; and those lesser than two years apart._10模拟3Home, sweet home is a phrase that expresses an essential attitudein the United States. Whether the reality of life in the familyhouse is sweet or no sweet. The cherished ideal of home has great S1._importance for many people. This ideal is a vital part

12、 of the American dream. This dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of theAmerican West, was to find a piece of place, build a house for ones S2._family, and started a farm. These small households were portraits of S3._ independence: the entire family-mother, father,

13、 children, evengrandparentslive in a small house and working together to support S4._each other. Anyone understood the life and death importance of family S5._cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live onfarms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as stron

14、g in the twentieth S6._century as it was in the nineteenth. When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II, for S7._ example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there S8._was a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small and mo

15、re or less identical, but it S9._satisfied a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of S10._their way of life. 模拟4Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. While experience taught him this was impossible, _1he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier i

16、n _21000 B.C. there were weather seers in Babylon-and priests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted _3the weather a year in the advance. Some forecasters used _4methods that seemed to take no connection with the actual _5factors controlled the weather. Chickens and other animals _6were

17、 sacrificed and their intestines poked to find signs indicating rain and drought. Somewhat more scientific were _7predictions based on vegetation:Onions skin very thin ,mild weather coming in. Onions skin thick and tough, coming weather is cold and rough. _8Insects and animals were also favorite wea

18、ther clues: Before the glowworm lights his _9lamp, then the air is always damp.If spiders their cobwebs forsake, the weather will for certain break . If frogs remained in pools , the weather will be fine . If they were seen on rocks, _10rain and cold were due. Its difficult to say whether this rhyme

19、 should be taken seriously : Hark , I hear the asses bray. Me thinks well have some rain today .模拟5It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain _1Britannia an

20、d the United States Columbia, and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symbols in our _2_personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot,wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed _3_ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was Jo

21、hn Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be _4_ adopted generally, combined the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually _5_ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband.After the American War of Independence began in

22、 1783, the United _6States was known for Brother Jonathan. Jonathan was a biblical _7name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophistcated, and since _8_Americans considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to _9_ the

23、 wickedness of European cities. It is possible,however, that the name was originated with President George Washington, who would _10_often say, when faced with a hard problem, Let us consult Brother Jonathan, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull.模拟6Middle age has its compensations. Youth

24、is bound hand and foot with the shackles of public opinion. Middle age enjoys freedom.I remember that when i left the school i said to myself: _1Hence forward. I can get up when i like and go to bed when i like. That of course was an exaggeration, and i soon found that whenever you have an aim you m

25、ust sacrifice something of freedom to achieve it. But by the time you have reached middle age you discovered how _2much freedom it was worth to sacrifice in order to achieve any aim that _3you have on view. When i was a boy i was tortured by shyness, _4and middle age has to a great extent brought me

26、 a relief of this. I _5have now no such feeling and i save myself much discomfort. I always hated cold water, but for many years i bath in cold seas because _6i wanted to be like everybody. _7It was until quite late in life that i discovered how easy it was _8to say:i dont know. i find with middle a

27、ge no one expects me to walk twenty-five miles, or to play a scratch game of golf, or to dive from a height of thirty feet. This is all to the good and makes life pleasant, but i should no longer care if they do. That is what makes _9youth unhappy, the vehement anxiety to be like other people, and t

28、hat is what makes middle age intolerable, the reconciliation with oneself._10模拟7Whether the eyes are the windows of the soul is debatable; they are intensely important in interpersonal communication is a _1fact. During the first two months of a babys life, the stimuli that _2produces a smile is a pa

29、ir of eyes. The eyes need not to be real: a _3mask with two dots will produce a smile. Significantly, a real human face with eyes covered will not motivate a smile, or will the sight of _4only one eye when the face is presented on profile. This attraction to _5eyes opposed to the nose or mouth continues as the baby matures. _6In one study, when American