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Blank-filling (for teachers)Passage oneAnger is an ___1 F__ that can be hard to control. __2 D__this, we should learn how to manage anger in a constructive manner. In the most intense moments of anger, we usually have two choices: toe fight or to run. Some choose the option of violence, which is a ___3 J _ reaction to anger; and others choose to run. Some may think running means you are a __4 K_. But the option of walking away and calming down is the more __5 A__ method of handling anger. It is difficult to walk away, especially when your heart is racing, and your anger is boiling over.There are constructive ways of handling anger in any situation. First, you have to stop for a brief moment and think before you act. Take that moment and calm down if you feel yourself being pushed. At that moment you should first admit you are angry and let your __6 B_ out before you blow up. If you do not __7 G__ your anger, it only builds up inside you and will eventually_8 I like a volcano.Then in order to manage your anger, you can ask yourself an important question that we all must ask ourselves, “What made me angry?” When you get the answer, then ask yourself, “Why did that make me angry?”Through such __9 H reasoning, one tends to calm down and move towards a __10 M solution.Passage twoA natural disaster is the 1 E of a hazardous event, occurring when human activities are affected by adverse natural 2 M such as flood, drought, hailstorm, heat wave, forest fire, hurricanes or typhoons, tornado, tsunami, landslides and mudslides, or volcanic eruption. The3 K deaths or property damage depend on the human ability to resist the disasters. Sometimes two seemingly different disasters may be4 H to each other. For example, an undersea earthquake may result in a tsunami. While there is a long dry spell in one area, there may be a great flood in another. It is necessary for human beings to understand and5 N natural disasters.A drought is a long-lasting weather pattern 6 A of dry conditions with very little or no precipitation(降水量). During this period, food and water 7 I can run low, and other conditions, such as famine, can result. Droughts can last for several years and are particularly damaging in areas in which the 8B depend on agriculture for survival.A flood follows too much rain or water in a location, and could be the result of many different conditions. Floods can be caused by 9 C rainfall from a storm, including thunderstorms, rapid melting of large amounts of snow, or rivers which swell from too much precipitation upstream, 10 G widespread damage to areas downstream. Another possible cause of a flood is the bursting ofThousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers continue 1 C and relief efforts after Monday’s huge earthquake in southwestern China. Thousands of people are believed to still be buried under 2 L buildings. Officials say the number of dead is expected to rise to more than fifty thousand.On Friday, Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Sichuan Province to support earthquake relief efforts. Hundreds of thousands of people are without homes. Health officials warn that a3 M of food, clean water and medical supplies could lead to the4 A of disease. Officials also warn that dams and other structures weakened by the earthquake could still collapse. So far, China has received international aid5 F more than two hundred million dollars. But officials say the country still needs tools, equipment, temporary shelters and medicine. The Chinese government made a rare public 6G Thursday for tools used for digging and moving wreckage. Some rescuers have been digging through building wreckage with only their hands. Airplanes 7 E aid and volunteers from Taiwan landed in China on Thursday. The first foreign rescue team arrived Friday in Sichuan Province from Japan. China has also agreed to accept teams from Russia, Singapore and South Korea. Chinese state television has shown Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in areas 8 H the earthquake hit, talking to survivors and directing relief work. The Chinese government has sent about one hundred thirty thousand military and aid workers to Sichuan Province. It has also deployed more than one hundred helicopters to 9 I victims and drop emergency supplies to survivors. The state-run Xinhua news agency reports the government has also ordered temporaryPassage fourThe modern 1 G of small office and home office, or small and home office, often shortened to SOHO, is concerned with businesses that employ from one to ten workers. Also 2 D as a virtual business, the SOHO has not evolved beyond the idea of an 3 K business person who has a few support staff members.Business enterprises that are larger are often called Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Before the 19th century and the spread of the industrial revolution around the globe, 4 A all offices were small offices or home offices, with only a few exceptions. Most businesses were small, and 5 M was the amount of paperwork that went with their business activities.At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the term “Small or Home Office”and the acronym SOHO have been used to great _6 O by companies that sell products to large numbers of small businesses with a small-sized office.Some products are often designed 7 B for the SOHO market. Many books are written and sold for this type of office to tell people how to 8 N a small office. In the field of software development, engineers often have to work 20 hours or more at a 9 C , so they can hardly adapt toAre you worried because you have just broken a mirror? Some people believe that breaking mirror is a terrible thing to do. They say it will bring you seven years of 1 C . The season behind this belief stems from the old idea that a person’s soul is in their 2 M , so that if you smash your mirror, your soul will be damaged too, 3 K you to an early death, and not giving you entry to heaven.Of all numbers, 13 is the most 4 H with bad luck. Some people claim that the number is bad luck because thirteen people sat down for the Last Supper before Jesus was crucified, and with this in 5 F few hosts will serve dinner with thirteen at the table. And according to an ancient Norwegian tale, twelve gods had 6 D for a feast when a thirteenth, Loke, entered. After the meal, Loke killed Balder, who was the most 7 A of all the gods. Friday the thirteenth of any month is considered especially bad or 8 I , and Friday the thirteenth of March is the worst of them all.The number seven also has some superstition connected to it. It is said that God 9 E the world in seven days, and any association with the number is lucky. The seventh son of the seventh son is said to be the luckiest of men, and when people talk about the “seven-year itch” they meanPassage six1 E show that China has been the top consumer of limousine brands such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and their sales volume2 J for almost 20 percent of the total in the whole Asian continent. According to German figures, China has been the biggest market for BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the world,3 B with a sales volume between 6,000 to 7,000 units every year.The newspaper said various famous international car makers are competing with one another now for more market 4 F in China. Mercedes-Benz is cooperating with Chinese institutions on car research and plans to establish a design center here. 5 H , Volkswagen, also from Germany, has set up a new lab center in Beijing. The founding of these research and design centers indicates that the 6 N among multinational car producers in China now includes research in addition to sales.As a price7 K exists between China’s and the international auto market, the returns on luxury cars from the domestic market are much higher than the five-percent profit margin in the international market. Over 30 percent of the manufacturers’8 C resulted from spare part sales. _9 M the steadying market demand experts estimated that the prices of luxury cars would not decrease by large margins this year. The newspaper 10 D that major consumers of luxury cars in China are entrepreneurs, professional managers of foreign companies, professionals with high。