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[音频]"Don't take many English courses, they (1)get a decent job.""Sign up for management classes, so you'll be ready to join the family business (2)."Sound familiar? Many of us have heard suggestions like these put forward by parents or others close to us.Such comments often seem (3).Why then, should suggestions like these be taken with caution?The reason is they relate to (4) should make.You are the one who must live with their (5).One of the worst reasons to follow a particular path in life is that other people (6).Decisions that (7)life should be your decisions—decisions you make after you've considered various alternatives and chosen the path that (8).Making your own decisions does not mean that you should ignore the suggestions of others.For instance, your parents do have their own unique experiences that may make their advice helpful.And having (9)in a great deal of your personal history, they may have a clear view of your strengths and weaknesses.Still, their views are not necessarily accurate.They may still see you as a child, in need of care and protection.Or they may see only (10) , or in some unfortunate cases they may focus only on your flaws and shortcomings.People will always be giving you advice.Ultimately though, you have to make your own judgments.

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[音频]When you look up at the night sky, (1)? There are other heavenly bodies out there besides the moon and stars. One of the most (2)of these is a comet (彗星).Comets were formed around the same time the Earth was formed. They are made up of ice and other frozen (3). Now and then these "dirty snowballs" begin to orbit the sun, just as the planets do.As a comet gets closer to the sun, some gases in it begin to unfreeze. They (4)dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud. As the comet gets even nearer to the sun, a solar wind blows the cloud behind the comet, thus (5). The tail and the generally fuzzy (模糊的) (6)around a comet are characteristics that can help identify (7)in the night sky.In any given year, about a dozen known comets (8)the sun in their orbits. The average person can't see them all, of course. Usually there is only one or two (9)bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, was an unusually bright comet. Its orbit brought it relatively close to the Earth, within 122 million miles of it. But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit. It won't be back for another four (10)or so.

[音频]There was a time when any personal information that was (1)about us was typed on a piece of paper and locked away in a file cabinet. It could remain there for (2)and, often forgotten, never reach the outside world.Things have done a complete about-face since then. (3)for the change has been the astonishingly swift development in (4)of the computer. Today, any data that is collected about us in one place or another — and for one reason or another — can be stored in a (5). It can then be easily passed to other computer banks. They are owned by individuals and by private businesses and (6), lending institutions, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government agencies at the local, state, and federal level.A growing number of Americans are seeing the (7)and distribution of computerized data as a frightening invasion of their privacy. Surveys show that the number of worried Americans has been steadily growing (8)as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain. In 1970, a national survey showed that 37 percent of the people questioned felt their privacy was being (9). (10)later, 47 percent expressed the same worry. A recent survey by a credit bureau revealed that the number of alarmed citizens had soared up to 76 percent.

[音频]According to American law, if someone is (1)of a crime, he is considered innocent until the court proves the person is (2).To arrest a person, the police have to be reasonably sure that a crime has been (3).The police must give the suspect the reasons why they are (4)him and tell him his rights under the law.Then the police take the suspect to the police station, where the name of the person and the (5)against him are formally listed.The next step is for the suspect to go before a judge. The judge decides whether the suspect should be kept in jail or (6).If the suspect has no previous criminal record and the judge feels that he will return to court rather than run away, he can go free. Otherwise, the suspect must (7).At this time, too, the judge will (8)a court lawyer to defend the suspect if he can't afford one.The suspect returns to court a week or two later.A lawyer from the district attorney's office presents a case (9).The attorney may present evidence as well as witnesses.The judge then decides whether there is enough reason to hold a trial.The American justice system is very complex and sometimes operates slowly.However, every step is (10)to protect the rights of the people.These individual rights are the foundation of the American government.

[音频]Almost every child, on the first day he (1)in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he (2), better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful, (3)and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people (4), and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, (5)and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done (6).He has (7)the mystery of language.He has (8)it-babies don't even know that language exists-and he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriate.He has done it by exploring, by (9), by developing his own model of the grammar of language, by trying it out and seeing whether it works by gradually changing it and refining it until it does work.And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, including many of the (10)that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.