A noted American psychologist once remarked that childhood is a magical period in one’s life．Indeed it is, for during        one undergoes a step-by-step transformation not only in mental capacity, but also in physical and verbal skills．Each step         an increase in the difficulty of a child’s conceptual and learning abilities．During the early stages of childhood, from infancy to about five, the child learns         skills including using the toilet, bathing and dressing himself independently．At this stage, he also learns to be very observant, curious, imaginative and creative．His ability to remember things also       at this stage． He remembers details that an adult may have difficulty in remembering．Gradually , he learns elementary skills in problem-solving．At school, particular in        classes, the child is especially creative．Given a piece of paper and some colored pencils, he draws a variety of        from his surroundings as well as from his          circle．It is not surprising to see a child draw a monster to represent an abusive father, and an angel to represent a loving and caring mother．
As he graduates to the later stages of childhood bordering on the teenage years, the child learns the          of human relations and socialization by interacting with his peers—his friends and schoolmates． He also learns to         with new life situations, including dates and part-time work． Given a tight schedule of schoolwork, the child learns to prepare his own schedules of work and play; the more________ and less serious ones manage to take time out of their busy schedules of assignments, reports and tests and examinations to go with their friends on relaxation entertainment．

Five cloned pigs，whose organs are much less likely to be rejected(排斥) by a patient，have been born in the U．S.
More than 62,000 people in the U．S. alone are waiting to ____ donated hearts，lungs and so on.The number of human donors falls far short of ____.Pig organs are of a(n) ____ size to human organs，and some scientists hope they might be used to help meet the ____.But previous attempts to transplant pig tissue into humans have ____.
The five pigs ____ a gene that adds a sugar to the surface of pig cells.The sugar would ____ immune(免疫的) rejection of the tissue.“This advance provides a near­time ____ for overcoming the problem that there is not enough human organs for transplants，”says an expert.“This is the ____ gene for overcoming the ____ stage of rejection.”
____，scientists warn that much more work is necessary ____ organs from copies of the pigs could be transplanted into humans.Human genes will need to be added，to ____ rejection of the organ in the long term.There are also ____ that pig viruses could infect patients.
Cloning techniques were ____ to the production of the pigs.Genes can only be knocked out(去除) in a single cell.Cloning of these single cells then allowed the ____ of a whole animal in which the gene was knocked out in every cell.But the PPL researchers have ____ in knocking out only one copy of the gene.The team will now attempt to knock out both copies of the gene.
The team will also ____ tests to investigate whether a virus from the pigs could infect human cells.“Although a lot of the work is very ____，we’re still very far off being able to grow an organ，” says Julia，who is working on this project and quite ____ to creating similar knock­out pigs with researchers at the University of Missouri.

Nowadays robots can not only talk and dance，but also answer your questions in English.They are “____”．The following is the first China­made “beauty”____.
A new 168­cm high “beauty” robot who has not yet been____looks wonderful in a red wedding____.She can act as a tour guide，a receptionist，____a hostess.
Her face____the beautiful facial characteristics of many girls.And her eyes can move.
“The robot is the first human simulation(仿真)____in China，and she is____with the most advanced voice and movement control technologies and____communicate with humans，” said Li Chengrong，chief____of the robot，who works for the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation.“She replies ‘____’ if you praise her by saying ‘You are so____’．”
The sentences that the robot can understand and say are____at present.“We will improve her in the future，to make her talk___with human beings，” Li said.
___the “beauty” will work as a receptionist and tour guide in Sichuan Science Museum，she has been programmed to____the southwestern dialect that is popular in inland Sichuan Province.
Li said the lab____for designing and making the robot was 300,000 yuan (37,500 U．S.dollars)．The robot is equipped with interactive technologies.It is____to most advanced robot in the world—Asimo，____by Japanese auto­maker Honda.Asimo，____can walk at a speed of one mile per hour and climb up and down stairs，costs about one million U．S.dollars.

　Beware of those who use the truth to deceive(欺騙). When someone tells you something that is　　, but leaves out important information that should be　　, he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, “I just　　a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and　　it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy is a winner, 　　? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred　　, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big　　!
He didn’t say anything that was　　, but he deliberately left out some important　　. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically　　, but they are just as not　　.
Untrustworthy candidates in　　campaigns often use this tactic(手段). Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, the state lost one million jobs and　　three million jobs. Then she　　another term. One of her opponents runs an ad　　, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!”That’s true. 　　, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of　　million jobs. ”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s　　the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the　　. An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples. ”It　　to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并從答題卡上將該選項(xiàng)涂黑。
I sat in the all-too-quiet waiting room of the cancer center, counting the minutes until my treatment. I thought I'd 36 it two years ago, but it was back. After my   37   diagnosis, Nom and Dad had driven more than l,200 miles from their home to be with me for three  38  while I was getting over from   39  and chemotherapy(化療). When the cancer returned last, they, once again,   40   it here , too. They waited for hours while I received my treatments------Dad with his  41  and Mom with a magazine.
But now, they were   42  in Westlake.
My children are  43  and my four brothers live far from my home outside Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.  I knew   44 of them would come if  asked, but I didn't want to  45   them,even with the intense    46 I felt.
I   47  picked one of the magazines on the end table beside me and couldn't help  wishing my  48  were there inside. One publication caught my   49 , a magazine I liked best and had   50   to ages ago. I couldn't tell you the last time when I'd read an issue. I   51  it up and I started right in with the letters to the   52  .
"I love  53  my copy every month," the first letter began. The author mentioned a daughter who  54   in Clinton, Pennsylvania. Huh, that's funny. I thought. That's my town! I read the letter to the end, where my   55  fell upon the author's signature:
"Thank you, Margie and Tom Parrish, Westlake, Louisiana"
Alone? Hardly. Margie and Tom-or as I call them, Mom and Dad-were right beside me,even now.

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題紙上將該項(xiàng)選項(xiàng)的標(biāo)號(hào)涂黑。
A young student was one day taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw   21  in the path a pair of old shoes, which they   22  belonged to a poor man who was employed in a field close by.
The student turned to the professor, saying, “Let us play the man a   23 : we will hide his shoes and wait to see his   24  when he cannot find them.”
“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never amuse ourselves at the   25  of the poor. But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure   26  the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch   27  the discovery affects him.”
The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by.
The poor man soon finished his work, and came   28  the field to the path where he had left his shoes. While   29  his foot into one of his shoes, he   30  something hard,   31  he bent down and found the coin. Astonishment and   32  were seen upon his face. He then looked around himself on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He now put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was   33  on finding the other coin. His feelings   34  him; he fell upon his   35 , looked up to heaven and thanked God aloud.
The student stood there   36  affected, and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “are you not much better   37  than if you had played your   38  trick?” The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the   39  of those words, which I never understood before: It is more blessed to   40  than to receive.”

Even though it was only October, my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more __36__, waiting for the final school bell. Upon its _37____everyone would run for their coats and go home, everyone except David.
David was a small boy in ragged clothes. I had often _38___what kind of home life David had, and what kind of mother could send her son to school dressed so __39_ for the cold winter months, without a coat, boots, or gloves. But something made David __40_. I can still remember he was always __41____a smile and willing to help. He always _42__after school to straighten chairs and mop the floor. We never talked much. He__43___just simply smile and ask what else he could do, then thank me for letting him stay and slowly__44___home.
Weeks passed and the __45___over the coming Christmas grew into restlessness until the last day of__46__before the holiday break. I smiled in ___47 __as the last of them hurried out the door. Turning around I saw David ___48___standing by my desk..
“I have something for you ”he said and ____49____from behind his back a small box .__50___it to me, he said anxiously, “Open it ”I took the box from him ,thanked him and slowly unwrapped it. I lifted the lid and to my __51__, I saw nothing. I looked at David’s smiling face and back into the box and said,“The box is nice ,David ,but it’s__52__”.
“Oh no, it isn’t”said David.“It’s full of love. My mum told me before she died that love was something you couldn’t see or touch unless you know it’s there.”.
Tears filled my eyes ___53___I looked at the proud dirty face that I had rarely given____54___to. After that Christmas, David and I became good friends and I never forgot the meaning ___55___the little empty box set on my desk .

I stepped into my hotel room which was surrounded by a(n)   26  king-size bed, flanked（兩側(cè)有）by overstuffed armchairs. “Wow,” I thought to myself. “Nice place.”
I  27  hotels. I love to enter a clean room, look out the window, or walk out in the morning  28   that each afternoon when I return, someone else will have made the bed.
The  29  is that unless Alison travels with me, I never sleep well in hotels. I miss my family. Even though Linus and Camille, aged 4 and almost 2, find a way to interrupt even the  30  night’s sleep at home, still, I’d rather be with them.
I’m deeply  31  by the parents who wake up too late with the realization: “My children grew up too  32  . In the busy and noisy career and life, I  33  their childhood.”
A hundred years from now, nobody will remember the car you drove or the large house you lived. The world might  34  greatly however, based on your  35  on the life of a small child. Your life will most certainly improve, if you pay attention to your important  36  , and make the choice to put her or him first. What could you do today to let your loved ones know how much they  37  to you? What will you do tomorrow? And the next day?
Think of one specific  38  that you can take, and take it. Challenge yourself to find new ways to  39  your appreciation and love on a daily basis.
Room service will never kiss you goodnight! Nothing  40  family.

I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked. “If you have the time,” I said. “My time is eternity(永恒),” God smiled, “What questions do you have（1）_________for me?” “What surprises you most about humankind?” God answered, “That they (2)__________ bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children（3）_________. That they lost their health to make money… and then lost their money to restore their (4)__________. Then by thinking anxiously （5）__________ the future, they forget the (6)___________, so that they live in neither the present nor future. That they live as if they will never die, and die （7）__________ they had never lived.” God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked, “(8)__________ a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to(9) ___________?” He answered, “To learn they （10）__________make anyone love them. All they can do is to let themselves love（11）____________. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness. To learn that it only（12）___________ a few seconds to open profound（深的） wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal （13）__________. To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is the one who need the （14）___________. To learn that there are people who love them（15）____________, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their(16)___________. To learn that two people can look at the same thing and （17）___________ it differently. To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one（18）____________, but they must also forgive themselves.”
“Thank you for your（19）___________,” I said humbly. “Is there anything else you would like（20）_____________ to know?” God smiled and said, “Just to know that I am always here.”

A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, " If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"
Within a few seconds Laiq   31  confidently, " Four!"
The confused teacher was expecting a（n）   32   correct answer, three．She was disappointed． "Maybe the child did not listen  33   " she thought． She   34   , "Laiq, listen carefully． If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?"
Laiq had seen the   35  on his teacher' s face． He  36  again on his fingers． But within him he was also   37   the answer that would make the teacher happy． This time hesitatingly he replied, "Four． "
The disappointment stayed on the teacher' s face． Suddenly she   38  that Laiq liked strawberries．She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question．This time with an excitement in her   39  she asked, " If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?"
Seeing the teacher   40  , young Laiq calculated on his fingers again． There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher． She wanted her new   41  to succeed．  42  a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, "Three?"
The teacher now had a   43  smile． Her approach had succeeded． She wanted to   44  herself．But one last thing remained．  45  she asked him, "Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?"
Confidently Laiq answered, "Four!" The teacher was   46   "How Laiq, how?" she demanded in a little annoyed voice．
In a voice that was   47  and hesitating young Laiq replied, " Because I already have one   48  in my bag． "
The story tells us:  49  someone gives you an answer that is   50  from what you expect, don' t think they are wrong． There shall be an angle that you may not have thought about yet．