Since earthquakes may cause great destruction, we need to learn how to (1)______them quickly. Animals always give us (2)______. For example, before an earthquake hens would not enter their cages; rats run out from their hiding places and march fearlessly through houses; even normally quiet dogs bark in chorus all over town. Pigeons are (3)______noisy and fly in unusual patterns. And most (4)______is a chemical change in ground water before a quake..
To prevent destruction of (5)______, the architects design columns and horizontal beams of equal strength. (6)______ the efforts to improve building structures , people also should prepare their houses for the(7)______ of a great earthquake. It is (8)______ to check and (9) ______ their homes regularly. And remember to place heavy objects in low positions, attach cupboards and cabinets (10)_______ walls, and so on. All these precautions can make a great (11)_______in saving lives and preventing the loss of homes.
Key：
1. detect 2. warnings 3. especially 4 . noticeable 5. property 6. Besides 7. possibility 8.advisable 9. reinforce 10. to 11. difference
Since earthquakes may cause great destruction, we need to learn how to __________. Animals always give us warnings. For example, before an earthquake hens would not _____________; rats run out from _______________ and march fearlessly through houses; even normally quiet dogs bark in chorus (齐声) all over town. Pigeons are especially noisy and fly ________. And most noticeable is _______ in ground water before a quake. To prevent destruction of property, the architects design columns and horizontal beams _________. Besides the efforts to improve building structures, people also should ___________ for the possibility of a great earthquake. It is advisable to check and reinforce their homes regularly. And remember to place heavy objects ______, attach cupboards and cabinets __________, and so on. All these precautions can __________in saving lives and prevent the loss of homes.
Key:
detect them quickly enter their cages their hiding places
in unusual patterns a chemical change of equal strength prepare their houses in low positions to walls make a great difference
Unit 7
Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, is the _______ businessman in the world. When he was still a college student at ________ University, he and his friend, Paul Allen wrote an _________ for the programming language used by MITS Altair, which laid the first brick in the _________ of Microsoft. In the early 1980s, Microsoft produced the ________ systems (MS-DOS), which dominated the _______ platform until the 1990s. By 1995, about 85% of the world’s ________ computers were using a Microsoft operating system. In 1997, Gates was worth an estimated $40 ______.
Gates’ extraordinary success stems from his unusual ________ — a blend of brilliance, drive and _____________. It’s common for him to work 16 hours a day. And he is good at time ___________, always getting the_________ amount of work possible out of every minute and being able to do _________. Gates hopes to be _______ Microsoft for another 10 years and then he promises to _____ on his family and give his money away. But one can only wonder what he will do in the near future.
Key: Richest Harvard interpreter foundation operating software personal billion personality competitiveness management maximum multitasks running focus
Unti 9
Prenuptial agreements, or prenups are designed to address (1) _________ problems as they arise in a marriage. They are negotiated by lawyers for the prospective spouses, and signed before a minister binds them in marriage. A typical (2) ___________for a prenuptial agreement is a man who has accumulated (3)__________ wealth, has already been stung once, and wants to reduce his (4)__________ to future problems. Retired people in their 60s and 70s who are remarrying after a spouse has died need prenups as well in order to (5)_________ assets to be passed on to children and grandchildren. Another situation that calls for premarital agreements occurs when a potential spouse has, or is in(6)_______ for, great inherited wealth or a family business, especially if the future partner has little or nothing at all. Of course, there are some notable problems (7)__________such an agreement. First, one should not use the (8)__________ lawyer as his/her future spouse does. Second, one should avoid a prenuptial agreement signed under(9)___________. Last but not least, one should take into(10)_________ the situation in which a couple decides to divorce while living abroad, or when they have different passports; because what (11) _________ is the law of the country where the couple is getting divorced. The discussions for a prenuptial agreement sometimes do save a couple from a terrible marriage; whereas, romantic love has no (12)________ on this process.
Key:
1. financial 2. candidate 3.considerable 4. exposure 5. shield 6.line 7. regarding 8. same 9. pressure 10. consideration 11. matters 12. bearing
Signing agreements before marriage has become popular in the United States since 1980s. __________________ are designed to solve problems like how to divide up ______________ if a couple divorces. Some people are strongly ________ them but others argue that there are several reasons _____ them: to protect the ____________ accumulation of wealth of one of the _______, to protect children from a _______marriage, to lay ____ the responsibilities and save a couple from a ______ marriage, etc. With 50% of all marriages in America _____up in divorces, _________ agreements seem to be _______ in acceptance.
Answer:
Premarital agreements financial assets against for considerable Spouses previous bare terrible ending premarital gaining
小测：
Since earthquakes may cause great destruction, we need to learn how to _________1________. Animals always give us warnings. For example, before an earthquake hens would not ______2_______; rats run out from ______3_________ and march fearlessly through houses; even normally quiet dogs bark in chorus (齐声) all over town. Pigeons are especially noisy and fly ____4____. And most noticeable is ____5___ in ground water before a quake. To prevent destruction of property, the architects design columns and horizontal beams ____6_____. Besides the efforts to improve building structures, people also should ____7_______ for the possibility of a great earthquake. It is advisable to check and reinforce their homes regularly. And remember to place heavy objects ___8___, attach cupboards and cabinets _____9_____, and so on. All these precautions can ___10_______in saving lives and prevent the loss of homes.
Key: 1-5 D N B M G 6-10 F H C E A
A. make a great difference B. their hiding places C. in low positions
D. detect them quickly E. to walls F. of equal strength G. a chemical change H. prepare their houses I destruction J influence K safeguard L serious M. in unusual patterns N. enter their cages
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