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M: Excuse me, Is there an airline flying to New York this afternoon
W: Sorry, sir. I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.
M: If your computer is down, just write me a ticket.
W: Sorry, I can’t. The computer is the only one allowed doing so.
M: Hmm... Then what do all you people do
W: We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.
M: So when it goes down, you go down with it
W: That’s very good, sir.
M: How long will the computer be down
W: Sorry, I’ve got no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes; sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down, it won’t answer us.
M: Well, let’s forget the computer. Is there any other airline flying to New York within the next few hours
W: I wouldn’t know. Only the
A. To give the computer the information about his trip.
B. To know what is wrong with the computer.
C. To buy a ticket for New York.

[填空题]Would you please _____ me a favor by lending me your dictionary for several days

[填空题]Several small earthquakes were predicted in New York State, in the______(east) part of the U. S. A.

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Why is it that flying to New York from London will leave you feeling less tired than flying to London from New York The answer may be a clear case of biology not being able to keep up with technology.
Deep inside the brain there is a "clock" that governs every aspect of the body’s functioning: sleep and wake cycles, levels of alertness, performance, mood, hormone levels, digestion, body temperature and so on. It regulates all of these functions on a 24-hour basis and is called the biological clock.
The body clock programs us to be sleepy twice a day, between 3-5 am and again between 3-5 pm. Afternoon tea and nap are all cultural responses to our natural biological sleepiness in the afternoon.
One of the major causes of the travelers’ malady known as jet lag is the non-alignment of a person’s internal body clock with clocks in the external world. Crossing different time zones confuses the biological clock, whi
A. enable us to sleep 6 hours a day
B. help us adapt to a 24-hour cycle
C. regulate the body’s functions
D. interfere with the body’s functions

[填空题]The book The Play of Power was published by New York St. Martin’s Press in 1996.

[填空题]The main center of the "hillbilly music" is New York.

[单项选择]A) Tokyo. C) Los Angeles.
B) New York. D) Singapore.

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