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The World Health Organization (WHO) says its ten-year campaign to remove leprosy (麻风病) as a world health problem has been successful. Doctor Brundtland, head of the WHO, says a number of leprosy cases around the world has (71)_____ @0q%&v0
been cut of ninety percent during the past ten years. She says (72)_____ Vcg$H 8m
efforts are continuing to complete end the disease. (73)_____ b$P=rIB
Leprosy is caused by bacteria spread through liquid from the nose and mouth. The disease mainly effects the skin and (74)_____ O2E6F^.pYw
nerves. However, if leprosy is not treated it can cause permanent damage for the skin, nerves, eyes, arms or legs. (75)_____ (5%OAjW
In 1999, an international campaign began to end leprosy. The WHO, governments of countries most affected by the disease, and several other groups are part of the campaign. This alliance guarantees that all leprosy patients, even they (76)_____ BzL>,um
are poor, have a right to the most modern treatment. Doctor Brundtland says leprosy is no longer a disease that requires life-long treatments by medical experts. Instead, patients can take that is called a multi-drug therapy. This (77)_____ lHwQ'/r
modern treatment will cure leprosy in 6 to 12 months, depend on the form of the disease. The treatment combines (78)_____ @ oE [!
several drugs taken daily or once a month. The WHO has given multi-drug therapy to patients freely for the last five (79)_____ H4 }^6><V
years. The members of the alliance against leprosy plan to target the countries which still threatened by leprosy. Among (80)_____ B*A{@)_
the estimated 600,000 victims around the world, the WHO believes about 70% are in India. The disease also remains a problem in Africa and South America. s m-RpZ&|
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Every week hundreds of CVs(简历) land on our desks. We’ve seen it all: CVs printed on pink paper, CVs that are 10 pages long and CVs with silly mistakes in first paragraph. (71)________ -C wx %
A good CV is your passport to an interview and, ultimate, to the job you want. (72)______ '{ j.5~4y
Initial impressions are vital, and a badly presented CV could mean acceptance, regardless of what’s in it.(73)______ fr8:L!9
Here are a few ways to avoid end up on the reject pile.(74)_____ bZk7)b;1o
Print your CV on good-quality white paper. CVs with flowery backgrounds or pink paper will stand out upon all the wrong reasons.(75)______ az~4sx$+}
Get someone to check for spelling and grammatical errors, because a spell-checker will pick up every mistake. (76)_____ ba^cw }5
CVs with errors will be rejected，it shows that you don’t pay attention to detail. Restrict yourself to one or two pages, and listing any publications or referees on a separate sheet. (77)______ `#hdb=3
If you are sending your CV electronically, check the formatting by sending it to yourself first. Keep up the format simple.(78)______
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Do not send a photo unless specifically requested. If you have to send on, make sure it is one taking in a professional setting, (79)______ +] /_gz
rather than a holiday snap. Getting the presentation right is just the first step. What about the content? The Rule here is to keep it factual and truthful-exaggerations usually get find out. (80)_____ +5Yc/Qp
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Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was (71) _______ [>+(zlK"
just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their (72) _______ ,p/iN9+Z
supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble (73) _______ ~M%r.WFpA
spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just (74) ________ /u{ 9UR[g
around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, (75) _______ ce&)djC7U
although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists (76) _______ 09`5< 9/
point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more (77) ________ Y[9x\6
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fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, (78) ________ .asHFT7]9
rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few (79)_______ =1fO"|L
stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason (80)_______for hope. orCD?vlh
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Culture refers to the social heritage of a people，the learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize a population or society, include the expression of these patters in (71)_________ . |$6Pi%!
material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture (72)_________ utKtxLX"
abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutional arrangements，and material culture，physical object like (73) _________ qYc]Y9fi
cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinary (74)__________ ~aa`Y0Ws],
speech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another(75)________ LF?83P,UJ#
language，the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, (76)________ /rN%y
literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to be human is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world (77)________ J6/Mm7R
of experience we share with other members of our group. Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind (78)_________ X64OX9:YF
of map for relating to others. Consider how you feel your way about social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom, or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh (79)__________ n!
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at you? Your culture supplies you by broad, standardized, (80)________ /~V .qisZ
ready-made answers for dealing with each of these situations. Therefore, if we know a person's culture, we can understand and even predict a good deal of his behavior. 'm9f:iTr
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The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the need for change and done something about it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversity of the communities to which they provide information. It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk (71)____________ c)gG
losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support. Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial (72) ___________ EU.vw0}u8
minorities, the paper has put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The (73) __________ ZYZQ?FN
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the (74) ____________ |^Nz
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same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’ (75) _________ AYHB?xOpR
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content (76) ____________ 4 F~e3
audit (审查) that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs.(77) ___________ @gc lks/M
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportion ate number of negative articles. The audit results from (78) _____________ _,(]T&j #2
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and (79) _____________ K[Bq,nP o
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a (80) ____________ &hWLG<IE
result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award for excellence in managing change. [?VYxX@
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"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet. The (71) ________ w_|R.T\7
cherished ideal of home has great importance for many people. This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth-century European settlers of the American West, was in find a piece of place, build a house for one's family, and (72)________ dP[l$/
started a farm. These small households were portraits of (73)________ j Xq~ x"(
independence: the entire family -- mother, father, children. Even grandparents -- live in a small house and working (74)________ 2MwR jh_
together to support each other. Anyone understood the life (75)________ ! U. Xb6
and death importance of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership is just as (76) ________ Z#YkAQHv5
strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. When U.S, soldiers came home before World War II. for (77)________ O~F/{: U
example, they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was a tremendous boom in home (78) ________ {Buoo~
building. The new houses, typically it the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied (79) ________ %\#s@8=2u
a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their way of life. (80) ________ -G&>b
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A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich (71)_____. Dt?O_Bdv[
city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in filling with (72)_____. d&'z0]mOe
hopes of prosperity which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of (73)_____. <cG .V |B
Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. (74)_____. 2Cn^<(F^4I
Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found (75)_____. NfcY30}:
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today ，the poor can still be numbered in millions. (76)______ CK[2duf^~
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but behind it lies two myths: (77)_____. b3}928!D-@
the myth of the city as a promised land, that attracts immigrants from (78)_____ < y5V],-U
rural poverty and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden, (79)____. ;;'b;,/
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to (80)_____the suburbs. w#[Ul9=?6
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