Due to circumstances ________ our control, th...

Due to circumstances ________ our control, the performance has to be canceled.

A. beyond        B. with             C. within           D. under

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The 15:30 train to Sheffield has been called off _______ situations beyond our control.

A. due to　　　　 B. in terms of

C. according to　 D. in spite of

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No one should be forced to wear a uniform under any circumstance. Uniforms are controlling the human spirit and totally unnecessary in a democratic(民主的) society. Uniforms tell the world that the person who wears one has no value as an individual but only lives to function as a part of the whole. The individual in a uniform loses all self-worth.

There are those who say that wearing a uniform gives a person a sense of identification with a larger, more important concept. What could be more important than the individual himself? If an organization is so weak that it must rely on cloth and buttons to inspire its members, that organization has no right to continue its existence.

Others say that the practice of making persons wear uniforms, say in school, gets rid of all envy and competition in a matter of dress, such that a poor person who cannot afford good-quality clothing is not to be looked down upon by a wealthy person who wears expensive clothing. Those persons ignore the concepts as freedom of choice, motivation, and individuality. If all persons were to wear the same clothing, why would anyone struggle to be better? It is only a short step from forcing everyone to drive the same car, have the same type of food. When this happens, all motivation to improve one’s life is removed. Why would parents bother to work hard so that their children could have a better life than they had when they know that their children are going to be forced to have exactly the same life as they had?

Uniforms also hurt the economy(经济). Right now, billions of dollars are spent on the fashion industry yearly. Thousands of people are employed in designing, creating, and marketing different types of clothing. If everyone were forced to wear uniforms, artistic personnel would be unnecessary. Salesmen would be extra as well. Why bother to sell the only items that are available? The wearing of uniforms would destroy the fashion industry which in turn would have a wave effect on such industries as advertising and sales promotion. Without advertising, newspapers, magazines, and television would not be able to remain in business. Our entire information and entertainment industries would collapse.

1.Why does the author discuss forcing everyone to buy the same car or eat the same food?

A. To show that freedom of choice is absolute in modern society.

B. To suggest what would happen if uniforms became compulsory.

C. To predict the way the society will be in the next few generations.

D. To show that the government has too much control over people’s lives.

2.The last word of the passage “collapse” probably means ________.

A. fail　　 B. rise　　 C. disappear　　 D. struggle

3.The author’s primary purpose in writing this passage was to ________.

A. show that uniforms are not possible in a democratic society

B. advise the government to change the rules of wearing uniforms

C. advocate stronger governmental controls on the wearing of uniforms

D. convince the reader that uniforms have more disadvantages than advantages

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Circumstances are　　　　　 human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

A. within    B. against     C. beyond    D. below

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Ladies and gentlemen, due to the heavy rain, the star who you ______ to see perform will arrive in an hour.

A. have come　　 B. come　　 C. came　　 D. are coming

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Our company suffered a continuous loss due to poor management. Hopefully the new director is able　 to ______ our failing business.

A.take over B.keep down C.turn around D.set aside

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Due to the reform and opening­up, our living conditions, undoubtedly, have improved ________ over the past decades.

A. considerately B. approximately C. appropriately D. considerably

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________ that the Youth Olympic Games might be delayed due to severe air pollution, our government has made a promise to Jacques Rogge that they will spare no effort to settle the problem.

A．Warned　     　　 B．Having warned

C．Warning　     D．Being warned

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The well-known performer our Chinese fans often referred ______ at our school yesterday.

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Of all the components of a good night's sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just ''mental noise''-the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind's emotional thermostat(恒温器), regulating moods while the brain is ''off-line''. And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, ''It's your dream'', says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago's Medical Center, ''If you don't like it, change it''.

Evidence from brain imaging supports this view. The brain is as active during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep-when most vivid dreams occur-as it is when fully awake, says Dr. Eric Nofzinger at the University of Pittsburgh. But not all parts of the brain are equally involved; the limbic system (the ''emotional brain'') is especially active, while the prefrontal cortex (the center of intellect and reasoning) is relatively quiet. ''We wake up from dreams happy or depressed, and those feelings can stay with us all day'', says Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William Dement.

The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright's clinic. Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily life we don't always think about the emotional significance of the day's events-until, it appears, we begin to dream.

And this process need not be left to the unconscious. Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams. As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream. Visualize how you would like it to end instead; the next time occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. With much practice people can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.

At the end of the day, there’s probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us from sleeping of ''we wake up in a panic'', Cartwright says. Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings of insecurity have increased people’s anxiety. Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from a therapist. For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. Sleep-or rather dream-on it and you'll feel better in the morning.

1.Researchers have come to believe that dreams__________.

A.reflect our innermost desires and fears B.are a random outcome of neural repairs

C.can be modified in their courses D.are vulnerable to emotional changes

2.By referring to the limbic system, the author intends to show __________.

A.its difference from the prefrontal cortex B.its function in our dreams

C.the mechanism of REM sleep D.the relation of dreams to emotions

3.The negative feelings generated during the day tend to __________.

A.emerge in dreams early at night B.develop into happy dreams

C.worsen in our unconscious mind D.persist till the time we fall asleep

4.Cartwright seems to suggest that __________.

A.dreams should be left to their natural progression

B.dreaming may not entirely belong to the unconscious

C.visualizing bad dreams helps bring them under control

D.waking up in time is essential to the ridding of bad dreams

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