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Nobody’s Watching Me
I am a foot taller than Napoleon and twice the weight of Twiggy; on my only visit to a beautician, the woman said she found my face a challenge. Yet despite these social disadvantages I feel cheerful, happy, confident and secure.
I work for a daily newspaper and so get to a lot of places I would otherwise never see. This year I went to Ascot to write about the people there. I saw something there that made me realize the stupidity of trying to conform, of trying to be better than anyone else. There was a small, plump woman, all dressed up—huge hat, dress with pink butterflies, long white gloves. She also had a shooting stick. But because she was so plump, when she sat on the stick it went deep into the ground and she couldn't pull it out. She tugged and tugged, tears of rage in her eyes. When the final tug brought it out, she crashed with it to the ground."
I saw her walk away. Her day had been ruined. She had made a fool of herself in public--she had impressed nobody. In her own sad, red eyes she was a failure.
I remember well when I was like that, in the days before I learned that nobody really cared what you do . . .
I remember the pain of my first dance, something that is always meant to be a wonderful occasion for a girl... There was a fashion then for diamante (人造钻石) ear-rings, and I wore them so often practicing for the big night that I got two great sores on my ears and had to put sticking-plaster on them. Perhaps it was this that made nobody want to dance with me. Whatever it was, there I sat for four hours and 43 minutes. When I came home, I told my parents that I had a marvelous time and that my feet were sore from dancing. They were pleased at my success and they went to bed happily, but I went to my room and tore the bits of sticking-plaster off my ears and felt forlorn and disconsolate.
‘The beautician found the writer's face a challenge’, which means _________.
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SECTION A CONVERSATIONS
Directions: In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：W: So what year were you born？
M: 1971. I'm part of the Generation X.
W: Generation X？ I think I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know what it means.
M: It's basically a trendy classification for the generation born in the United States after 1965. It was coined in 1991 by author Douglas Coupland, who wrote a book by that title.
W: What characterizes the X-generation？
M: Well, they are basically college educated and dissatisfied with their careers.
W: So, they are basically overeducated and underemployed？
M: Right. And they also have a pessimistic attitude about society. They don't see life getting any better. They don't even like the label "Generation X".
W: I can see why. Nobody likes to be stereotyped.
M: There are actually two different stereotypes associated with the Generation X-ers. One is the slacker image in which the individual has no motivation. The other extreme is the highly educated computer hacker who has his own business.
W: So tell me some more terms about the Generation X.
M: Sure. There's another term called "McJob". It was coined by Coupland and refers to low paying jobs with no prestige and no future.
W: Like working at McDonalds？ Is that where they got the "Mc"？
M: Exactly.
When was the term "the Generation X" made up？
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Mounting evidence has led astronomers to just an improbable conclusion; At least 90 percent and possibly 99 percent of all matter in the universe is completely【C1】______ . Astronomers call this stuff dark matter.
An astronomer first reported the matter after noting some unusual behaviour in visible matter. In 1993, Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky concluded that 【C2】______ was causing strange gravitational effects【C3】______ these galaxies.
Galaxies are like【C4】______ islands in deep space【C5】______ billions of stars that are held together by the force of【C7】______ .Some galaxies are part of【C6】______ systems called clusters; which contain many galaxies. Most galaxies; belong to smaller systems called groups. Groups and clusters in 【C8】______ form. even larger【C9】______ known as super-clusters. Just【C10】______ the force of gravity keeps stars together in galaxies the force of gravity【C11】______to keep galaxies together in clusters~
This same force of gravity keeps planets【C12】______ around the sun【C13】______ flying off into space. How great a force gravity exerts depends on the mass of the objects【C14】______ and the distance between them, a【C15】______ discovered by Newton. The amount of mass and the distance between objects also【C16】______ how fast the objects travel as they orbit each other. The force of its gravity keeps Earth and the other planets【C17】______ orbit around it. The orbital speeds of the planets【C18】______ with increasing distance from the sun. The planet nearest to the sun travels at an orbital speed of 48 kilometers per second【C19】______ the distant planet Pluto orbits【C20】______ speed of 7 kilometers per second
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