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（15选10）注意：只需填写选项字母 (要大写！），不要输入选项单词！

Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once.

A. sparked B. striped C. leaflets D. figure E. suffering F. perceive G. imagine H. flexibility

I. passionate J. depressing K. specimens L. seemingly M. practically N. sued O. availability





Karen was a young mother working as a clerk at a court in North Carolina. Though she had been trained in criminal justice, she quickly found prisons and courts to be 1)

places to work. When her daughter was born, she had to stay at home and be a full-time mother. At that point, she decided to 2)

out what she really wanted to do with her life. She knew that she liked office jobs and didn.t intend to give up her own career development, but she also enjoyed the 3)

of staying home and raising her daughter. Therefore, it seemed that she just couldn.t find anything that could satisfy these two 4)

conflicting conditions.







One day, Karen read in the newspapers that a couple 5)

their babysitter for abusing their child. It turned out that the babysitter had a long criminal record. Karen couldn.t 6)

hiring someone to watch her child without doing a thorough investigation about that person.s background. This 7)

a brilliant idea. Karen decided to do something to save other parents. children from 8)

the same fate. And this job didn.t require her to leave her home. The next day she got her hometown paper and looked at the ads placed by parents seeking babysitters. She called them and sent them 9)

to offer her baby-sitting services. Several of them jumped at it. Her business was born and has continued to grow.







That was 15 years ago. Karen was recently named one of the top 10 business women in North Carolina and has even appeared on Oprah.s talk show. Asked about the secret of her success, she emphasized that it was because she was 10)

about what she really wanted to do. In addition, Karen mentioned that patience and persistence were vital to her achievements.many as 40 birds per turbine per year. Though these reports tell us 7)

about the total number of birds killed, they do tell us that steps can be taken when constructing wind power turbines to 8)

their impact on birds. For example, wind farms should not be built on bird migration routes. Wind turbines should be erected in ways to avoid 9)

blades at a height where birds tend to fly. Wind towers should be 10)

carefully to prevent birds from sitting or resting on them. Some reports even argue that well-planned wind power can actually save many birds if it is used increasingly to replace power generation from fossil fuels.

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