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1、改错 1Ancient man attempted to change the weather by using magic. While experience taught him this was impossible, _1_ he tried to forecast weather conditions. Even earlier in _2_ 1000 B.C. there were weather seers in Babylon-and priests clever enough to denounce as frauds those predicted _3_ the weat
2、her a year in the advance. Some forecasters used _4_ methods that seemed to take no connection with the actual _5_ factors controlled the weather. Chickens and other animals _6_ were sacrificed and their intestines poked to find signs indicating rain and drought. Somewhat more scientific were _7_ pr
3、edictions based on vegetation:“Onions skin very thin ,mild weather coming in. Onions skin thick and tough, coming weather is cold and rough.“ Insects and animals were also _8_ favorite weather clues: “Before the glowworm lights his _9_ lamp , then the air is always damp .“ “If spiders their cobwebs
4、forsake , the weather will for certain break.“ “If frogs remained in pools , the weather will be fine . If they were seen on rocks, _10_ rain and cold were due.“ Its difficult to say whether this rhyme should be taken seriously : “ Hark , I hear the asses bray . Me thinks well have some rain today .
5、“ 2It is difficult to think of a nation as an abstract collection of people living on a patch of territory. It is easier to think of as a person. This is why we sometimes call Great Britain _1_ “Britannia“ and the United States “Columbia“, and think of it as stately women. We also use masculine symb
6、ols in our _2_ personification of nations. In 1712 John Arbuthont, a Scot, wrote a political satire in that the characters were supposed _3_ to be typical members of different nationalities. The Englishman was John Bull. This name, which was sufficient flattering to be _4_ adopted generally, combine
7、d the most common English first name with a last name indicated strength. John Bull is usually _5_ pictured as a partly businessman with a Union Jack on his hatband. After the American War of Independence began in 1783, the United _6_ States was knownfor “Brother Jonathan“. Jonathan was a biblical _
8、7_ name associated with simple people from rural areas, and it seemed fitting since the United States is rural and unsophiscated, and since _8_ American considered their type of simplicity a virtue compared to _9_ the wickedness of European cities. It is possible, however, that the name was originat
9、ed with President George Washington, who would _10_ often say, when faced with a hard problem, “Let us consult Brother Jonathan“, referring to his secrectary, Johnathan Trumbull. 3About half of the infant and maternal deaths in developing countries could be avoided if women had used family planning
10、methods to prevent high risk _1 pregnancies, according to a report publishing recently by the Johns Hopking University. _2 The report indicates that 5.6 million infant deaths and 2,000,000 maternal Deaths could be prevented this year if women chose to have theirs children _3 within the safest years
11、with adequate intervals among births and limited their _4 families to moderate size. This amounts to about half of the 9.8 million infant and 370.000 maternal deaths in developing countries, excluded China, estimated for this year by _5 the United Nations Childrens Fund and the US Centers for Diseas
12、e Control respectably. China was excluded because very few births occur in the high risk categories. _6 The report says that evidences from around the world shows the risk of _7 maternal or infant ill and death is the highest in four specific types of _8 pregnancy; pregnancies before the mother is 1
13、8 year old; those after the _9 mother is 35 years old; pregnancies after four births; and those lesser than two years apart._10 4“Home, sweet home“ is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished
14、 ideal of home _1 has great importance for many people. This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream, dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers of American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house _2 for ones family, and started a farm. These small ho
15、useholds were _3 portraits of independence: the entire family- mother, father, children,even grandparents-live in a small house and working together to _4 support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance _5 of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the United St
16、ates no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership _6 is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.When U.S soldiers came home before World War, for example, _7 they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was _8 a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in the suburbs, were often small a
