When you’re shopping at the grocery store, you probably expect that the olive oil you see came from,well, olives. And that the organic vegetables were never exposed to poisonous chemicals. Increasingly, however, there’s a chance you might be ______. In recent years, there has been a rise in reports of so-called food fraud, or attempts by various entities — including storage workers, suppliers and distributors — to alter products and mislead customers and food companies alike for ______ gain. Among the more recent examples: “natural” honey containing antibiotics and Italian companies selling “Italian olive oil” from a blend of oils that did not ______ from Italy.
By and large, the fraudsters are trying to make easy money — ______ for a whole food or pricey ingredient, then cutting it with ______ stuff secretly. But the health consequences can be ______.
How can this happen? In the U.S., the Pure Food and Drug Act has prevented the “manufacture, sale or transportation of misbranded or poisonous foods” since 1906, and similar laws exist in other countries.
But most global food regulators, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, aren’t ______ to enforce them effectively. For the most part, they focus on safety standards — ______ that foods don’t contain bacteria or viruses — and rely on companies to police their own ingredients, lest they face ______ backlash(强烈抵制). But now that food manufacturing has become globalized, supply chains are longer, creating more opportunities for bad actors to ______. Anyone who can ______ substituting cheap ingredients for more expensive ones is going to try.
Governments are starting to fight back. In 2014, the U.K. created a food-crime unit that collects reports of food fraud. But in order to prevent fraud in the first place, the food industry needs to ______ the safeguarding of its own production network. So the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) — a trade group including officials from more than 300 food manufactures — will this year start ______ its members’ supply chains, from field to table, to identify vulnerabilities.
______, dozens of other food-industry experts recently teamed up with academics from Michigan State University to launch the Food Fraud Initiative (FFI), a group that studies fraudsters — specifically, how they avoid safeguards — and then advises food companies on how to get rid of them. “There are plenty of criminals out there who are going to wake up and perceive some opportunity for fraud,” says John Spink, director of the FFI. “We just need to make ourselves a(n) ______ target.”
1.A.definite B.peaceful C.optimistic D.wrong
2.A.financial B.social C.technological D.potential
3.A.initiate B.originate C.withdraw D.profit
4.A.asking B.paying C.charging D.harvesting
5.A.cheaper B.faulty C.lighter D.bad
6.A.ok B.terrific C.incredible D.horrible
7.A.honored B.equipped C.justified D.promoted
8.A.maintaining B.struggling C.ensuring D.reflecting
9.A.consumer B.manufacturer C.market D.organizer
10.A.mess around B.make off C.show off D.stand aside
11.A.hold on to B.come up with C.get away with D.carry away with
12.A.minimize B.upgrade C.publicize D.abandon
13.A.recalling B.breaking C.describing D.examining
14.A.However B.Meanwhile C.Instead D.Therefore
15.A.easier B.nicer C.harder D.rarer
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Each stage of life has different major demands mainly because our needs change. As children, a period of deep uncertainty and sensitivity,___ and family are the top needs although we may not think of them in those terms. As teenagers, we are__the waters of adult life, preparing ourselves for the exciting unknown and as young adults, we search for a__. The drive to fulfill each stage is so strong that sometimes we have to hold the breath to___.
At each stage, although everyone may___in dreams, we will all try to take hold of the means to achieve our particular dreams. Some will be driven with almost tunnel vision, others take a(n)____attitude to getting there. Anyway, without dreams it is hard to direct life. If you are fortunate enough to achieve your current dreams, you can move forward for___desires and prepare yourself for a new conquest.
For each period of life, the needs are decided by that stage, and as we grow older, whether we like it or not, we gain___, which, on the basis of former facts and information, permits us to see a broader view if we are wise enough to take on board what is there. As we mature, the sharpness of the___of youth, the black and white approach to life, will be tempered by what is possible, kind, just and fair. Ageing helps us to grow if we allow it. So often we___that process, holding on tightly to rooted beliefs which do not do us any favour, yet our needs change and in result we will___be different.
Physically, even when we stay fit and able, the body cannot deliver in quite the same way as youth. This comes as a(n)___to most of us who start life in the belief that we are unbeatable and will live forever. Again, coming to terms with this fact helps us to___anxiety, and finally realize the unexpected benefits which come along with___face and slowed body. What was important when we were young can be seen now in a new light, and a different list of importance emerges. In the end, extreme age can be as demanding and sensitive as babyhood, so while ones need changes through life, it seems to come___.
1.A.finance B.security C.marriage D.education
2.A.testing B.sharing C.changing D.setting
3.A.financial advisor B.childhood companion C.life partner D.household keeper
4.A.take action B.calm down C.look forward D.pay attention
5.A.believe B.persevere C.vary D.persist
6.A.easy B.random C.formal D.similar
7.A.noble B.fresh C.reasonable D.superior
8.A.experience B.responsibility C.respect D.agreement
9.A.individualism B.materialism C.idealism D.socialism
10.A.resist B.enjoy C.evolve D.strengthen
11.A.unexpectedly B.terribly C.comparatively D.necessarily
12.A.inquiry B.instinct C.refusal D.shock
13.A.worsen B.manage C.judge D.feel
14.A.wrinkled B.depressed C.impressive D.serious
15.A.with high requirements B.in full circle C.without difficulty D.on a large scale
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It was a cold rainy day. I had no _______ to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house,But she had insisted that I come to see something at the top.
So here I was,______ making the two-hour journey _______ fog that hung like veils(面纱),Sadly,by the time I saw how _____ it was near the summit,I'd gone too far to _____ . Nothing could be worth this,I thought as I _____ along the dangerous highway.
“I'll stay for lunch,______ I'm heading back down immediately the fog _____,” I announced when I arrived. At my words, Carolyn asked me to walk along a quiet path thick with old pine needles. Gradually the ______ of the place began to fill my mind
I stopped at a comer, _____ , Rivers of flowers in bloom! Varieties of ___ -from the palest ivory to the deepest lemon to the _____ orange pink -shined brightly like a carpet before sun I looked as though the sun had tipped over and ____ gold down the mountainside.
___ occupied my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How?
As we drove home, we saw a (n) _____ that read; "One Woman -Two Hands, Two Fe, and Very Little Brain." "One at a Time." "Started in1958", She _______ the world. Forty years had passed but she still ____ it.
The wonder of it would not let me go. "Imagine," I said, "if I`d had a _____ and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have _____ ?"
Carolyn smiled "Start tomorrow," she said " _______ yet, start today."
1.A.reason B.desire C.chance D.courage
2.A.excitedly B.hurriedly C.unconsciously D.unwillingly
3.A.under B.towards C.through D.above
4.A.thick B.high C.far D.fresh
5.A.tum back B.hold out C.give in D.look for
6.A.marched B.inched C.walked D.dashed
7.A.but B.or C.so D.while
8.A.falls B.flows C.lifts D.moves
9.A.loneliness B.peace C.atmosphere D.imagination
10.A.disappointed B.puzzled C.pleased D.amazed
11.A.fruits B.colors C.hills D.trees
12.A.most interesting B.dullest C.most vivid D.rarest
13.A.poured B.exposed C.spread D.threw
14.A.Questions B.Doubts C.Worries D.Hopes
15.A.notice B.sign C.advertisement D.motto
16.A.changed B.controlled C.beat D.challenged
17.A.defended B.prepared C.kept at D.searched for
18.A.method B.rule C.job D.dream
19.A.promoted B.accomplished C.appreciated D.promised
20.A.And B.Sooner C.Not D.Better
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Rabbit Island is a tiny and remote island off northern Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Its _______ nature is the perfect destination for artists to come and _______ their creativity. New Yorker Rob Gorski _______ the island in 2010, who wanted to protect its natural state. He also saw a(n) _______ to create a setting where artists could get close to _______ and create their great works.
Gorski set up the Rabbit Island Foundation, whose main goal is to host artistic _______ during the summer while also teaching and _______ conservation.
Artists, with the _______ that the island should largely remain untouched, are _______ to a two-week period of reflective engagement in a wilderness unlike anywhere else in the world. They ________ a “leave no trace” policy. Small solar panels are used to generate electricity and buildings are simple with nothing ________ left in place. “Rabbit Island exists to encourage the community to ________ the most fundamental part of our age — the environment and the human relationship to it. We challenge artists to take ________ and create bold works challenging the assumptions of the landscape created by previous ________, said Gorski.
Most artists say they have a better understanding and ________ of nature after the experience, which, in turn, gives them many creative inspirations.
1.A.undesired B.undeveloped C.unnamed D.unknown
2.A.display B.assess C.sharpen D.inspire
3.A.purchased B.developed C.ignored D.occupied
4.A.sign B.possibility C.opportunity D.invitation
5.A.heaven B.people C.life D.nature
6.A.parties B.programs C.games D.shows
7.A.opposing B.raising C.recording D.advocating
8.A.hobby B.topic C.belief D.plan
9.A.invited B.exposed C.addicted D.related
10.A.organize B.draw C.follow D.imagine
11.A.permanent B.popular C.available D.portable
12.A.put on B.focus on C.turn on D.agree on
13.A.risks B.turns C.duties D.notes
14.A.groups B.races C.fans D.generations
15.A.description B.communication C.appreciation D.recreation
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Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. “The only thing that I love is dance,” she told CBS News. That ambition nearly _______ one night in 2010.
Hill, then a 17-year-old high school senior, was in a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and that _______ her paralyzed from the waist down. For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the _______ . Far from being a(n) _______ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to _______ to my community and to myself that I was still ‘normal’.” Whatever normal meant, normal for her meant _______ . so Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her _______ high school dance team. “Half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.”
After graduation, Hill wanted to ________ her dance network to include women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord injuries and shared her ________ , and she invited them to dance with her. “It was such a(n) ________ experience.” Hoping to ________ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes, a ________ to the Rockettes, a famous dancing team. “I want to ________ the prejudice of wheelchair users and show that dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________ ,” she said to CBS News. Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood dream. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something ________ . She calls it the Rollettes Experience, and in 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended it. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they ________ . “It was the most unimaginable thing when I rolled into a room and everyone was at ________ level.” Hill told CBS News.
1.A.escaped B.ended C.passed D.arose
2.A.prevented B.avoided C.left D.protected
3.A.built B.disappointed C.motivated D.destroyed
4.A.beginning B.result C.incident D.experience
5.A.effect B.object C.gift D.barrier
6.A.announce B.explain C.prove D.advocate
7.A.dancing B.living C.continuing D.performing
8.A.considerate B.nondisabled C.disabled D.energetic
9.A.cut off B.brought out C.left over D.taken away
10.A.barely B.definitely C.probably D.merely
11.A.expose B.explore C.expand D.expect
12.A.experience B.determination C.comment D.adventure
13.A.embarrassing B.tiring C.regrettable D.amazing
14.A.reach B.evaluate C.appreciate D.observe
15.A.kick B.shake C.nod D.pat
16.A.give in to B.pick up C.look into D.break down
17.A.rolling B.standing C.sitting D.lying
18.A.sympathetic B.significant C.sufficient D.serious
19.A.succeeded B.benefited C.belonged D.won
20.A.eye B.head C.nose D.arm
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I work as the reception manager at my hotel. A booking came in a few weeks ago with a note attached saying that the guest will be ________ with her deaf father. As they were here for a number of days, the daughter wanted to make his trip to Ireland as ________ as possible. Upon seeing this note and ________ I would be the one to check them in as I was scheduled for their ________ time, I decided to learn some very basic ________ language.
I ________ the guest in my usual fashion, asking for the surname on the booking. Once I heard the name I realized ________ who was standing in front of me.
I had been learning for two weeks how to ________ “Welcome to Ireland. My sign language is terrible, but please ________ you need anything during your _______ just let me know and we will help you.”
I________ at the father and daughter in front of me. Turning to the father, I began the ________ I had learned for him. His daughter ________, cried and called me sweet. But the father ________ smiled and was so happy. Honestly, seeing his ________ was enough for me. It was so ________ of the last few weeks of learning basic American Sign Language (ASL).
On check-out I sadly wasn’t working, but they had left a ________ for me. A small box with some chocolates and a book on ASL. Inside the inscription (题词) read “Thank you very much for what you did on check-in. You have no idea how much this ________ to my father and we can’t thank you enough. You’ve ________ his trip home to his family after 50 years very special with one simple ________.”
1.A.working B.traveling C.applying D.attending
2.A.smooth B.brief C.long D.cheap
3.A.observing B.planning C.noting D.worrying
4.A.departure B.arrival C.dinner D.journey
5.A.trade B.body C.computer D.sign
6.A.invited B.entertained C.greeted D.accommodated
7.A.immediately B.eventually C.perfectly D.gradually
8.A.operate B.share C.understand D.say
9.A.if B.before C.until D.unless
10.A.adventure B.wander C.play D.stay
11.A.pointed B.smiled C.stared D.shouted
12.A.much B.mass C.bit D.piece
13.A.turned down B.took down C.went down D.broke down
14.A.just B.already C.ever D.still
15.A.achievement B.reaction C.satisfaction D.amazement
16.A.aware B.certain C.worthy D.free
17.A.gift B.prize C.award D.memory
18.A.explained B.showed C.contributed D.meant
19.A.promoted B.made C.changed D.supported
20.A.word B.concept C.gesture D.measure
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Madagascar was not the paradise I expected. A reporter and I were ______ there to find out who was helping with drought relief and the prevention of famine(饥荒).
After a three-hour ride in a van, we ______ in the small town of Ambovombe.Peter immediately headed over to the hospital to speak with a local ______ on our topics of interest. Since I didn't need to photograph the background ______ with the doctor, I wandered out to the road.
I raised my ______ to get some images before the sun went down. I've ______ been to Madagascar before, and until you've actually photographed in a place, you don't know how people will ______ to the camera.
I ______ a handsome man who was leaning against a wall in the golden light of dusk. No reaction. I took a breath. After a while, everyone within a 20-yard radius had ______ me. Some called out to each other, playfully teasing those I'd ______ .
Soon after, a mother encouraged me to photograph her young children.I ______ a moment. They were dressed in ______ clothes. One of them may not have even had any pants on---not because her parents were neglectful, but because they couldn't ________ them.
Their mother really ______ me to photograph them. This happens everywhere I go. Parents, ______ of their children, ask me to take a photo. I'd taken this photo of cute smiling children over and over. I don't usually save ________ ,but I saved this one.
Why? The children's _________ .It's something so powerful yet so ______ that we sometimes miss it. This mom, despite all the ________ obvious to an outsider's eyes, found in her children something she wanted a photograph to remember. That's because she saw a(n) ______ picture: She saw them with a mother's heart. As should we all.
1.A.expected B.assigned C.allowed D.persuaded
2.A.arrived B.explored C.searched D.camped
3.A.reporter B.nurse C.doctor D.patient
4.A.discussion B.interview C.program D.practice
5.A.paper B.hand C.head D.camera
6.A.just B.seldom C.never D.already
7.A.respond B.adapt C.return D.contribute
8.A.discovered B.greeted C.asked D.photographed
9.A.caught B.noticed C.found D.suspected
10.A.helped with B.stared at C.referred to D.focused on
11.A.watched B.regretted C.hesitated D.choked
12.A.beautiful B.funny C.dirty D.colorful
13.A.serve B.afford C.choose D.bring
14.A.wanted B.informed C.reminded D.paid
15.A.afraid B.sure C.aware D.proud
16.A.images B.cards C.gifts D.words
17.A.clothes B.kindness C.mother D.expectation
18.A.emotional B.changeable C.sensitive D.common
19.A.adventures B.disadvantages C.curiosity D.support
20.A.different B.natural C.broad D.interesting
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Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Retailers(零售商) closed more than 9,000stores in 2019. Some people call what has happened to the shopping landscape “the retail ______ .” It is easy to chalk it up to the rise of e-commerce, which has thrived while physical stores struggle. But this can be ______. Online sales have grown tremendously in the last 20 years, but Internet shopping still represents only 11 percent of the entire retail sales total. Collectively, three major ______ forces have had an even bigger impact on brick-and-mortar retail than the Internet has.
To begin with,we have changed______ we shop - away from smaller stores like those in malls and toward stand-alone “Big Box” stores,which is a greater problem for most physical stores.
Also, Rising income______ has left less of the nation’s money in the hands of the middle class, and the traditional retail stores that ______ them have suffered. It is estimates that since 1970, the share of the nation’s income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost two-thirds to around 40 percent. As the ______ of income at the top rises, overall retail suffers simply because high-income people save a much larger share of their money. The government reports ______ for different income levels in the official Consumer Expenditure Survey. In the latest data, people in the top 10 percent of income ______ almost a third of their income after taxes. People in the middle of the income distribution spent 100 percent of their income. ______, as the middle class has been squeezed and more has gone to the top, it has meant higher saving rates overall.
Lastly, We have spent ______ less of income on things and more on services. Since 1960, we went from spending 5 percent of our income on health to almost 18 percent, government statistics show. We spend more on education, entertainment, business services and all sorts of other products that aren’t ______ in traditional retail stores. Economists debate theories of why we have ______ to services and away from goods but no one questions that it has happened. It means that over time, retailers selling ______ will have to run harder and harder just to stay in place.
In short, the broad forces hitting retail are more a lesson in economics than in the power of ______. It’s a lesson all retailers will have to learn someday.
1.A.business B.disaster C.investment D.strategy
2.A.advanced B.confirmed C.overstated D.undervalued
3.A.economic B.legal C.physical D.political
4.A.how B.what C.where D.why
5.A.distribution B.inequality C.level D.tax
6.A.aim at B.approve of C.compete with D.stem from
7.A.concentration B.influence C.security D.source
8.A.education B.employment C.housing D.spending
9.A.concealed B.donated C.earned D.saved
10.A.Instead B.However C.Moreover D.Therefore
11.A.cautiously B.intelligently C.proportionately D.prospectively
12.A.available B.insufficient C.popular D.uncommon
13.A.applied B.committed C.shifted D.tied
14.A.ideas B.patents C.services D.things
15.A.consumption B.habit C.income D.technology
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The opening and closing of the doors are the most significant actions of man’s life. What a _______ lies in doors!
No man knows what awaits him when he opens a door._______ the most familiar room, where the clock ticks and the hearth glows red at dusk may harbor______. The worker may actually have called and______ the leaking pipe. The cook may have been ill and demanded her passports.
There are many kinds of doors. Revolving doors for hotels, shops and public buildings. They are_____ the busy, bustling ways of modern life. Can you ______ William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens skipping through a ______ door? There are double doors, sliding doors, stage doors and glass doors. The ______ and mystery of a door lies in its quality of being hidden. A glass door is not a door at all, but a window. The meaning of a door is to ______ what lies inside; to keep the heart in suspense.
Also, there are many ways of opening doors. There is the cheery ______ of elbow with which the waiter opens the kitchen door. There is the sympathetic and awful ______ of the dentist’s maid who opens the door into the operating room and, without speaking, ______ that the doctor is ready for you.
The opening of doors has in it some flavor of the ______ , some sense of moving into a new moment. Even in ______ , the opening of a door may bring relief. But the closing of doors could be ______, A door closed brings ______ to an end. And there are degrees of sadness in the closing of doors. A door slammed is a confession of weakness. A door ______ shut may often be the most tragic gesture in life.
The opening and closing of doors is a part of the serious fluency of life. Life will not stay ______ and let us alone. We are ______ opening doors with hope, closing them with despair. Life ______ not much longer than a pipe of tobacco, and destiny knocks us out like the ashes.
1.A.mystery B.relief C.scenery D.pleasure
2.A.So B.Still C.Even D.Also
3.A.wishes B.puzzles C.surprises D.changes
4.A.checked B.fixed C.wrapped D.removed
5.A.necessary to B.different from C.consistent with D.typical of
6.A.imagine B.suggest C.catch D.notice
7.A.stage B.sliding C.glass D.revolving
8.A.symbol B.miracle C.sign D.mark
9.A.busy B.hide C.discover D.exhibit
10.A.knock B.bump C.push D.touch
11.A.silence B.noise C.voice D.peace
12.A.announce B.admits C.implies D.expects
13.A.darkness B.certainty C.possibility D.unknown
14.A.vain B.hope C.sadness D.happiness
15.A.easy B.terrible C.dull D.interesting
16.A.nothing B.everything C.anything D.something
17.A.heavily B.hurriedly C.gently D.firmly
18.A.still B.calm C.silent D.simple
19.A.naturally B.continually C.obviously D.possibly
20.A.measures B.matches C.reaches D.lasts
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When I first met Begay at Los Ninos Elementary on “King and Queen Day”, she was wearing a smile ear-to-ear.
This morning, though, Begay was______. The parent she had been trying to_____was a no-show again. Begay______needed to talk to her. Her boy was smart, but now about a year behind. She______there were problems at home. He was always late and had already missed too much school.
By 8 a.m. , kids were arriving, and Begay’s______quickly became a beehive(蜂窝)of activity. Forty-five minutes_______, the little boy finally walked in, shoulders sunk, head_______. Rather than______him in front of the class, Begay welcomed him warmly. He was testing Begay’s long-held_______that no child is a lost cause, no matter how______he seems. “It’s the unspoken _____teachers start out with,” Begay said.
During lunch I sat down with Begay’s students and asked them what they liked about her.
“ She never gets angry, “ said one girl. A boy______:” She’s funny and likes telling jokes.”
Before we left the______, the shy, quiet girl next to me______,” She teaches me when I don’t want to learn.”
Her_______stayed with me. When I_______it with Begay, I told her that I felt it was a very _____thing for a child to say. She agreed.
“They never______that to me.” said Begay, “But that’s what I_______. I want them to enjoy school. I want them to feel like someone_______them.”
1.A.sensitive B.worried C.thrilled D.energetic
2.A.meet B.investigate C.enquire D.praise
3.A.gradually B.occasionally C.abruptly D.desperately
4.A.clarified B.revealed C.suspected D.acknowledged
5.A.classroom B.school C.canteen D.house
6.A.after B.before C.later D.ago
7.A.rose B.bowed C.nodded D.shook
8.A.disturbing B.astonishing C.capturing D.embarrassing
9.A.conclusion B.dream C.belief D.ambition
10.A.awesome B.troubled C.innocent D.careless
11.A.commitment B.assumption C.proposal D.regulation
12.A.rejected B.declared C.added D.protested
13.A.office B.kitchen C.playground D.table
14.A.shouted B.whispered C.cried D.suggested
15.A.comment B.adventure C.experience D.discovery
16.A.interpreted B.promoted C.shared D.demonstrated
17.A.fancy B.comprehensive C.crucial D.meaningful
18.A.do B.express C.guarantee D.leave
19.A.acquire B.secure C.accomplish D.pursue
20.A.believes in B.stands by C.tums against D.fears for
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