I got a job teaching special education at a school in Coachella, California, a desert town about 170 miles from home. It was no (1) job. Street gangs (2) around the school after dark.
"Be careful, " Dad warned me during one of my frequent weekend (3) home. He was concerned about my living (4) , but I needed to be on my own.
One evening, I stayed after school to rearrange my classroom. (5) , I turned out the light and closed the door. Then I (6) toward the gate. It was (7) ! I looked around. Everyone had gone home.
After (8) all the exits, I found just enough (9) to squeeze under a gate in the back of the school. Then I walked toward my car, parked in a field behind the building.Suddenly I heard voices. I (10) around and saw at least eight boys following me. (11) my pace, I reached into my shoulder bag to get my key. I (12) all over the inside
A. happily
B. far
C. nearby
D. alone
On a weekday night this January, thousands of flag-waving youths packed Olaya Street, Riyadh’s main shopping strip, to cheer a memorable Saudi victory in the GCC Cup football final. One car, rock music blaring from its stereo, squealed to a stop, blocking an intersection. The passengers leapt out, clambered on to the roof and danced wildly in front of the honking crowd. Having paralyzed the traffic across half the city, they sped off before the police could catch them.
Such public occasion was once unthinkable in the rigid conformist kingdom, but now young people there and in other Gulf states are increasingly willing to challenge authority. That does not make them rebels: respect for elders, for religious duty and for maintaining family bonds remain pre-eminent values, and premarital sex is generally out of the question. Yet demography is beginning to put pressure on ultra-conservative norms.
After all, 60% of the Gulf’s native population is under the
A. Detrimental.
B. Unappealing.
C. Harmonious.
D. Unbalanced.
Throughout history man has had to accept the fact that all living things must die, but people now live longer than they (36) . Yet, all living things still show the (37) of aging, which will eventually. (38) death.
Aging is not a disease, but as a person passes maturity, the cells of the body and the (39) they form do not function as well as they (40) in childhood and adolescence (青春期). The body provides less (41) against disease and is more prone (42) accident.
A number of related cause may (43) aging. Some cells of the body have a fairly long life, but they are not (44) when they die. As a person ages, (45) of brain cells and muscle cells decrease, (46) body cells die and are replaced by new cells. In an aging person the (47) cells may not be as viable (能生存的) or as capable (48) growth as those of a young person.
Another (49) in aging may be changes within th
A. a number
B. the amount
C. the number
D. most
政府加大力度支持革命老区、民族地区、边疆地区发展，颁布实施2011－2020年中国农村扶贫开发纲要，启动集中连片特殊困难地区扶贫开发攻坚工程。对扶贫工作的重视表明（）。
①我国政府重视尊重和保障人权
②实现社会公平是政府的重要职责
③我国已真正实现民族权利平等
④维护民族团结是民族工作的唯一任务
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