The Laozi focuses on______, while the Zhuangzi concentrates on finding ways for the ______ to achieve self-liberation and self-preservation in a dark, grim society.

The third arid fourth paragraphs concentrate on ______.

A．the practical reasons for the growth of swimming

B．the echoes of jogging craze of the early 1980s

C．the reasons for the wide television coverage

D．the driving forces behind the development of triathlon

Seafood Co and Family Mart entered into a sales contract for a shipment of 10,000 packages of tinned food. The sales contract stipulated that Seafood Co was responsible for delivering the goods to Family Mart’s place of business, and an amount of RMB 50,000 yuan was agreed upon to be liquidated damages for breach of contract.

After the conclusion of the contract, Seafood Co entrusted Links Logistics Co to carry the goods to Family Mart. However, Links Logistics Co only shipped 5,000 packages to Family Mart on time. During transportation of the rest of the goods, 1,000 packages got wet in the heavy rain and arrived at Family Mart’s place of business 10 days late. Required: In accordance with the Contract Law of China:

(a) Explain whether Family Mart was entitled to refuse to accept all the 10,000 packages of goods. (2 marks)

(b) Explain whether Seafood Co could be exempted from liabilities caused by Link Logistics Co in the process of transportation. (2 marks)

(c) Explain whether Family Mart was entitled to claim the RMB 50,000 yuan liquidated damages. (2 marks)

The group is having______finding investors for the wind farm it plans to build in Montana.

A．obviously

B．emergency

C．difficulty

D．understandably

Three weeks alter the suicide bombing, the police were still hunting for bombers for they believe more were______.

A．on the verge

B．on the sly

C．on the spot

D．on the loose

Three weeks after the suicide bombing, the police were still hunting for bombers for they believe more were ______.

A．on the verge

B．on the sly

C．on the spot

D．on the loose

Three weeks after the suicide bombing,the police were still hunting for bombers for they believe more were____.

A．on the verge

B．on the sly

C．on the spot

D．on the loose

Review the following topic sentences for central paragraphs and find out their transition, reminder, and main idea. 1) Despite this advantage, cars have many significant disadvantages, the most important of which is the pollution they cause. Transition: ___________________ Reminder: ___________________ Main idea: ___________________ 2) A further disadvantage is the traffic problems that they cause in many cities and towns of the world. Transition: ___________________ Reminder: ___________________ Main idea: ___________________

She was slim and he liked her that way. So he called a lawyer. The result was a contract. According to the document, the fresh-faced bride agreed to pay a fine for each pound she gained in weight, the money refundable upon its loss. The paper signed, and the wedding went on.

This is a prenuptial (婚前的)agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in this most transactional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual style, where increasingly detailed legal documents spell out everything from who's going to do the dishes to who's going to get the house when you split.

This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligations in the event of divorce—is becoming commonplace in a litigious (爱打官司的),disillusioned and materialistic age in which one in every two marriages is projected to end in divorce.

The only question is: What about love? When asked whether anyone believes in Cupid (爱神)anymore, Dr. Michael Vincent Miller says, "Given a century that is full of sexual liberation, computer-dating services and so on, one feels tempted to reply,' only in a mood of desperate nostalgia (怀旧 )'. ""Pre-nups" (prenuptial agreements)do assume negativity. Founded on disillusionment, they cannot be separated from the high divorce rate in the United States. The result, argues Miller, is a kind of defending mentality. "We've gotten good at managing finiteness, failure and trouble with a sort of 'What' s yours is yours and what's mine is mine's realism'. We've seen it isn't all about love. We've seen there's power politics in there—a fight for control, and when you've got those things, you're halfway to lawyers and money."

In other ways, however, the compacts embody positive, even idealistic thinking about marriage, love and relations, a law scholar Isabel Marcus believes. Marcus says , "Contracts could spell the end of romantic love as salvation. They say love exists, but that it's best accompanied by good, hard thinking about equitability (平等).

By writing a contract, the couple gains control of its marriage. "What's good is it contributes to honesty; what's unfortunate is the idea that any contract can govern your emotions," says the author of the book "The Nature of Love."

The scene described in the first paragraph ______.

A．is a part of a comedy film

B．is something rare

C．is something real and becoming common daily

D．is ridiculous