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American's latest strategy(对策) for single persons who don't want to be single any longer has many names: speed-dating, express-date, 10-minute-dating or simply mini-date.
The principle (原则) is the same: Why spend an 1 evening with a stranger 2 you realize after only the first few minutes that you can't 3 the person?
The solution(解决办法): The man and woman sit down 4 each other. A bell is sounded, and in the next 7 to 10 minutes each one tries to find out as much as possible about the 5 person. When the bell 6 off a second time, the men stand up and move 7 to the next female.
At such a meeting in San Francisco 8 , some 200 men and women between the ages of 30 and 60 had a 9 expression on their faces, in two long 10 opposite each other. The signal was given, and then almost everybody started 11 away.
Richard Gosse, 12 of “American Singles,” says this is the fastest, most effective and at the moment “ 13 ”way to search for a partner. Minute-dates have become a 14 everywhere from computer fans in Silicon Valley to gays in San Francisco to the suburbs of Chicago. Gosse says the quick method to get to know each other is helpful above all for 15 singles who are not brave enough to speak to a stranger in a bar.
His 16 :Don't talk about money, your weight or about your former partner, but 17 about your dreams, desires and hobbies.
Most speed-dating meetings cost about US $25 per evening, 18 a person to get to know 15 to 20 people 19 the opposite sex. Speed-dating is so much in demand in America that most meetings are 20 out weeks and months in advance.
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科目:高中英语 来源:2004全国各省市高考模拟试题汇编(天利38套)·英语 题型:054
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Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a rainstorm with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written 1 that frees me from 2 when it's raining.
For two days it was raining without stopping. By the third night, it wasn't raining at all. I 3 the sign to the announcer, and the band began 4 my music.
The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from being 5 about the wetness.
And so we came to the head-in-mouth 6 . When I pulled Leo's mouth open raising his face and nose to the 7 . I noticed that the muscles (肌肉) of his jaws (下、下颚) were tense. Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down. I felt Leo become 8 all over.
My head was in now. I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw 9 to let me go. But then nothing happened.
I 10 again on his jaw. Leo's mouth was like a steel trap. I heard gunfire men were trying to get Leo's 11 . But already, with my face 12 in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe, I knew what had happened; with the 13 beating on his face, Leo had forgotten me. I heard the gunfire again.
I awoke with an oxygen mask 14 my face, and a doctor was working over me. “You're 15 ,” said the doctor, “as soon as you went faint (头晕的), the lion 16 you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!
By then it had 17 raining. I called Leo back and opened his jaw. “Don't be a fool!” the doctor said, 18 I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I gave Leo the tap on the jawand he obeyed immediately.
Yet, when I tried to trick again the next time, Leo 19 . I believed he was unwilling to 20 me a second time. I never did the trick again.
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科目:高中英语 来源:测试专家课课练单元练 高二英语(下) 题型:054
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A true apology is more than just acknowledgement(承认) of a mistake. It's recognition that something you've said or 1 has damaged a relationship-and that you 2 enough about that relationship to want it 3 .
It's never 4 to acknowledge yon are in the wrong. Being human, we all need the art of apology. Look back and think how 5 you've judged roughly(草率) said 6 things, pushed yourself 7 at the expense(在使某人受损的情况下) of a friend. Some deep thought in us know that when 8 a small mistake has been made, your 9 will stay out of balance until the mistake is acknowledged and your regret is 10 .
I remember a doctor friend, 11 me about a man who came to him with 12 illnesses: headache, insomnia(失眠), stomachaches and so on. No physical 13 could be found. Finally the doctor said to the man, “ 14 you tell me what's on your conscience(良心), I can't help you.”
After a short silence, the man told the doctor that he 15 all the money that his father gave to his brother, who was 16 . His father had died, so only he himself knew the matter. The old doctor made the man write to his brother making an 17 and enclosing(附寄) a 18 . In the post office, the man dropped the letter into the mail box. As the letter disappeared, the man 19 into tears. “Thank you, doctor,” he said, “I think I'm all right now.” And he 20 .
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科目:高中英语 来源:2006年北京市丰台区一模练习英语试卷 题型:054
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