It was Charles who could ____ policy and law in most respects. 选词填空： disposal scour preside suspend revive spoil dictate

听力原文： When he first heard the news on the radio, Charles could hardly believe it. He had been told by some friends to expect what happened, but still, he just couldn't accept it. He had spent too many years perfecting his trade to think that the time would come when machines would replace him and his skills.

That was the news that struck his ears early on that morning five months ago when the announcement came. The company was going to install machines and save thousands of dollars in production costs. Unfortunately, for Charles it meant that his job was going to be abolished.

At first he had thought it was humiliating to be replaced by a machine. But, now, months later, he felt relieved that his skills were not lost, but, instead, valuable enough to be placed in a computer! Those skills were still producing useful products for people, and now his job was to supervise rather than do the work himself.

Charles had, as they say, "moved up in the world". He was no longer a worker; he was a manager!

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A．The news that machines would replace him and his skills.

B．The news that he had to learn new skills.

C．The news that the company was going to reduce the number of machines.

D．The news that he was no longer a worker.

English is one of the worlds most widely spoken languages. This is partly because it was the language of the British Empire. The empire once controlled so much of the world when it was said【M1】______ that the Sun never set on the British Empire. England, the birthplace of English, takes on most of the island【M2】______ of Great Britain. It is one of the four land that form. the United【M3】______ Kingdom. The English that people speak there today is quite differed from the English that was spoken long ago. If you were【M4】______ read a book by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the early writers of【M5】______ English, someone would have to explain it to you what many【M6】______ words mean. England has product many famous writers since Chaucer.【M7】______ They include such poets as John Milton and Percy Bysshe Shelley and such novelists as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. England is also known for its theater. That art has remained important since the time of playwright William Shakespeare some 400 years ago. Englands Oxford and Cambridge are two of the oldest universities in the world. The country s contributions of classical and folk【M8】______ music, as well as to rock and roll, are also important. Its not hard【M9】______ to imagine what rock would be like if there hadnt been English performers such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and David Bowie. The English also discovered two of the world s most【M10】______ popular sports: football(known as "soccer" in the United States) and cricket.

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听力原文：M: Well, you seemed to be having fun watching the movie?

W: Yeah, it was funny. I think it kept me in stitches right from the start.

M: You know, whenever I watch a comedy, I always like to know why it is that people like to laugh. I mean, why does it feel so good to laugh?

W: Yeah, I heard from my biology professor that even after centuries of scientific research, no one knows why human beings and just a few other primates laugh.

M: I read that Charles Darwin thought that laughter begins with small babies. He believed that even prehistoric parents must have interpreted baby’s laughter. The parents enjoyed the laughter, which encouraged them to continue caring for the child.

W: Yes, apparently researchers have also found that it has a positive effect on many parents and that it produces certain hormones that actually switch on the body’s immune system and actually help fight off diseases. So it could be helpful to fight off diseases.

M: I also heard that some psychology professors found that men are more likely to make jokes than women are, and women are more likely to laugh at them than men are. 30

W: If only your jokes are funny, I might laugh more and fit the pattern.

M: Well, I’ve heard that apes also like laughing.

W: I heard that too. Chimpanzees, apes, and a few other primates laugh, but no other animals do. I’ve seen them laugh at zoos, when tickling each other, and when playing chasing games. Their laugh sounds like rapid panting, but I’ve been assured it’s a kind of laughing.

M: Which reminds me I’d better get back to those apes I have for roommates before they eat all the chicken I left out in the kitchen!

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A．The purpose of laughter.

B．The cause of laughter and its effects.

C．Why and when people laugh.

D．The origin of laughter.

听力原文：M: Well, you seemed to be having fun watching the movie?

W: Yeah, it was good fun. I think it kept me in stitches right from the start.

M: You know, whenever I watch comedy, I always like to know why it is that people like to laugh. I mean, why does it feel so good to laugh?

W: Yeah, I heard from my biology professor that even after centuries of scientific research, no one knows for sure why human beings and just a few other primates laugh.

M: I read somewhere that Charles Darwin thought that laughter, which begins with small babies, was like an evolutionary "reward" to the mother and father. Baby's laughter sounded and felt so different from crying, he believed, that even prehistoric parents must have interpreted it as a sign of well-being, kind of like the purring of a kitten. The parents enjoyed the laughter, which encouraged them to continue caring for the child.

W: Yes, apparently researchers have also found that it has a positive effect on many patients and that it produces certain hormones that actually switch on the body's immune system and actually help fight off diseases. So it could be to help fight off disease.

M: I also heard that some psychology professor from the University of Maryland, studied the laughter that takes place in conversations between men and women and found that most laughter takes place when males are talking and females are listening. Men are more likely to make jokes than women are, and women are more likely to laugh at them than men are.

W: If only your jokes were funny, I might laugh more and lit that pattern.

M: Well, I've heard that apes also like laughing.

W: I heard that too. Chimpanzees, apes, orangutans and a few other primates laugh, but no other animals do. I've seen them laugh at zoos, when tickling each other, and when playing chasing games. Their laugh sounds like rapid panting, but I've been assured it's a kind of laughing.

M: Which reminds me I'd better go back before my roommates eat all the chicken I left out in the kitchen!

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A．The purpose of laughter.

B．The cause of laughter and its effects.

C．Who and when people laugh.

D．The origins of laughter.

(watch) ______ by a crowd of people, Charles felt embarrassed and couldn't say a word.

(watch) ______ by a crowd of people, Charles felt embarrassed and couldn't say a word.